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When his master returned to the chemical studies which have been already mentioned, Gloody was employed as assistant, to the extent of his limited capacity for making himself useful. He had no reason to suppose that I was the object of any of the experiments, until the day before the tea-party.
When she handled her silver ornament, she told me that I might depend on her to forget nothing, and to be afraid of nothing." I remembered the quiet firmness in her face, after the prayer that she had said in her own room. Her steady resolution no longer surprised me. "Did you wonder, sir, what possessed her," Gloody went on, "when she burst out singing? That was a signal to me.
"We will wait a little before we talk of setting the law in force," I said. "In the meantime, Gloody, I want you to tell me what you would tell the magistrate if I called you as a witness." He considered a little. "The magistrate would put questions to me wouldn't he, sir? Very good. You put questions to me, and I'll answer them to the best of my ability."
Old Toller highly approved of my conduct. He rubbed his fleshless hands, and whispered: "You'll get it out of Cristy to-morrow, and I'll help you." I found Gloody waiting for me outside the cottage. He was anxious about Miss Cristel; his only excuse, he told me, being the fear that she might be ill. Having set him at ease, in that particular, I said: "You seem to be interested in Miss Cristel."
"I beg your pardon, sir; I won't detain you any longer. If you will allow me, I'll take my leave." "Don't go, Mr. Gloody, without telling me whether I am right or wrong. Is there really some objection to my coming to tea tomorrow?" "Quite a mistake, sir," he said, still in a hurry. "I've led you wrong without meaning it being an ignorant man, and not knowing how to express myself.
I'm dismissed from my master's service that's all." It was plainly not "all." Relieved even by that guarded reply, I pointed to a chair by the bedside. "Do you believe that I mean well by you?" I asked. "I do, sir, with all my heart." "Then sit down, Gloody, and make a clean breast of it." He lifted his enormous fist, by way of emphasizing his answer.
I have not seen him; I have not heard from him. His servant often brings me messages. Not one message to-day." "Have you seen Gloody to-day?" "Oh, yes! There's one thing, if I may make so bold, I should like to know. Mr. Gloody is as good to me as good can be; we see each other continually, living in the same place. But you are different; and he tells me himself he has only seen you twice.
He answered me with little of the energy which generally distinguished him. Perhaps he was fatigued, or perhaps he had something else to think of. I offered a suggestion. "When we are in want of help," I said, "we sometimes find it, nearer than we had ventured to expect at our own doors." The ancient miller rose at that hint like a fish at a fly. "Gloody!" he cried. "Find him at once, Mr. Toller."
Had we any proof to justify us? Gloody at once acknowledged that we had no proof. "I happened to look at the boat," he said, "and I missed the oars. Oh, yes; I searched the boat-house. No oars! no oars!" "And nothing more that you have forgotten, and ought to tell me?" "Nothing, sir."
I left Gloody to wait my return; being careful to place him under the protection of the upper servants who would see that he was treated with respect by the household generally. On the way to Toller's cottage, my fears for Cristel weighed heavily on my mind.
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