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Then, remembering me that all this while my own business waited, I continued on my way to Mr. Lovyes' house. It was a long building of a brownish granite, under Merchant's Point, at the northern extremity of Old Grimsey Harbour. Mr.
Don't you know that Grimsey was nearly all burned down last night?" Dave loosened his hold of his pole, which fell into the water with a splash. "Grimsey! bont down!" he exclaimed, and his lower jaw dropped and showed his yellow teeth, but only to recover himself directly and pick up the pole. "Yah!" he snarled; "what's the good o' saying such a word as that? He's a hidin' behind them reeds.
Light a lanthorn, some one, and put in a spare candle. You'll go with me, Hickathrift?" "Ay, squire, to the end of the world, if thou bids me; but I tell ye " He stopped short. "Well, what, man? Here, drink!" "Efter yow, squire," said the big fellow sturdily. "I tell ye that no mortal man, nor no two men, couldn't take that punt across to Grimsey in the dark to-night.
Two mile to my plaace from here and two mile from here to Grimsey, mak's four mile. Nay, I heered nowt!" "Of course you wouldn't, Dave! The light shone in at my window and woke me up, and we were all there working with buckets to put it out!" "Wucking wi' boockets!" said Dave slowly as he stared in the direction of Tallington's farm. "Hey, but I wish I'd been theer!" "I wish you had, Dave!"
So what with that and the wind failing, it was late when we cast anchor in Grimsey Sound. The night had fallen in a brown mirk, and so still that the sound of our feet brushing through the ferns was loud, like the sweep of scythes. We sat down to supper in this kitchen about nine, my mother, my father, two men from the boat, and myself, and after supper we gathered about the fire here and talked.
On the side where the two last comers landed it had seemed sluggish, for an eddy had helped them in; but as soon as they were all well out beyond the pines the stream caught them, the wind helped it, and their task was not to get towards Grimsey, but to retard their vessels, and mind that they were not capsized by running upon a pollard willow, whose thin bare boughs rose up out of the water now and then, like the horrent hair of some marine monster which had come in with the flood from the sea.
It seemed to me, in fact, clean against nature that a man so rich should so disregard his wealth; and I busied myself upon the journey with discovering strange reasons for his seclusion, of which none, I may say, came near the mark, by so much did the truth exceed them all. I landed at the harbour of New Grimsey, on Tresco, in the grey twilight of a September evening; and asking for Mr.
But never, in the many times he had been to and fro, had he so thoroughly realised how rough and awkward was the track, and how long it took to get to Grimsey farm.
"Aw, reight, squire!" cried the wheelwright, and in another minute every man was off at a trot following Dick's father, and all armed with a weapon likely to be of service against the enemy which was rapidly conquering the prosperous little farm at Grimsey.
Carp's a good bait; but you can't always ketch carps." "You are a good chap, Dave!" cried Tom. "Ay, that I am, lads. I say, though, talk 'bout ketching; hev the squire and Farmer Tallington ketched the chap as sat fire to Grimsey stables?" "Nobody set fire to Grimsey stables," said Tom. "It was to the stacks." "Nay, lad, I knows better than that," cried Dave, shaking his head.
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