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Updated: May 7, 2025
For an instant a peering face was there; then it was gone there was only the Dutchman's frowzy wig and striped woolen cap. But the voice he had heard and the face he had seen were the voice and the face of Gregory Goole. "I should love to see thy mother, Nick," said Cicely. He got up steadily, though his heart was jolting his very ribs. "Thou shalt right speedily!" said he.
Then pulling a tall, curiously-made stool to the other side of the board, she perched herself upon it like a fairy upon a blade of grass. "Greg!" she called imperiously, "Greg! What, how! Gregory Goole, I say!" "Yes, ma'm'selle," replied a hoarse voice without; and through a door at the further end of the room came the bandy-legged man with the bow of crimson ribbon in his ear.
The exchange was rapidly effected, and Hilliard took up his watch, while his friend pulled back into Hull, and following his own precedent, went to the hotel and to bed. The following day Merriman took an early train to Goole, returning immediately. This brought him past the depot, and he saw that the Girondin had left. That night he again rowed to the wharf and relieved Hilliard.
"De bug, Massa Will! de goole bug!" cried the negro, drawing back in dismay "what for mus tote de bug way up de tree? d-n if I do!" "If you are afraid, Jup, a great big negro like you, to take hold of a harmless little dead beetle, why you can carry it up by this string but, if you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel."
I rap him up in de paper and stuff piece ob it in he mouff dat was de way." "And you think, then, that your master was really bitten by the beetle, and that the bite made him sick?" "I don't tink noffin about it I nose it. What make him dream bout de goole so much, if taint cause he bit by de goole-bug? Ise heerd bout dem goole-bugs fore dis." "But how do you know he dreams about gold?"
Ever since my drinking, two days ago, some very Goole drink at Sir W. Coventry's table I have been full of wind and with some pain, and I was afraid last night that it would amount to much, but, blessed be God! I find that the worst is past, so that I do clearly see that all the indisposition I am liable to-day as to sickness is only the Colique. So to bed. 8th.
T. X. himself was a busy man that day, and it was not until night was falling that he again turned to Beston Tracey to find a telegram waiting for him. He opened it and read, "Chauffeur's name, Goole. Formerly waiter English Club, Constantinople. Left for east by early train this morning, his mother being ill."
Here, again, came a swift excursion steamer, her decks crowded with jovial pleasure-seekers, and a good brass band on the bridge playing "A Life on the Ocean Wave," whilst behind her again appeared a clumsy but picturesque-looking "billy-boy" or galliot from the Humber the Saucy Sue of Goole with a big brown dog on board, who, excited by the unwonted animation of the scene, rushed madly fore and aft the deck, rearing up on his hind-legs incessantly to look over the bulwarks and bark at all and sundry.
And now, this is what I want to say: The most dangerous individual who could possibly get that treasure would be the Princess Yasmini. There are several women here whom I might interest in keeping an eye on her Tatum's wife, and Miss Bent, and Miss O'Hara, and the Goole sisters lots of 'em. But they'd all talk.
"And dis all cum ob de goole-bug! de putty goole bug! de poor little goole-bug, what I boosed in dat sabage kind ob style! Aint you shamed ob yourself, nigger? answer me dat!" It became necessary, at last, that I should arouse both master and valet to the expediency of removing the treasure.
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