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I'll stand in the fence here and listen; and if you don't put it to him strong! " Again the electric torch. Tusk's wavering call sounded before the broken gate, and the injured voice of Mrs. Hewlet answered.
Hewlet gave a sign of satisfaction, while Brent wanted to indulge a chuckle which seemed to arise from all parts of him. He was immeasurably pleased. He thought humorously of Frankenstein, and how he must have felt with the monster in his keeping. It was weird, fascinating, and altogether to his liking.
"Will you come back with me and tell Tom Hewlet what I say?" "Yep." "And make him believe it?" "He's durn sure to believe it when I tell 'im 'bout this heah!" "All right; get up. You and I can be good friends, or damn bad ones, whichever you please; and it all depends on how you act tonight. Come on, before he goes to bed!"
You must pay off Meance and Hewlet for their attendance on you and Natalie. They must be paid regularly at the end of each month. I forgot it. Get their accounts, and give them an order on Strong for the amount. When either of you want money, Roger Strong will furnish it. Pray settle also your account with Madame Senat, and write me that these things are done. Tell Mr.
There ain't no love lost 'tween me an' you an' the Dawsons, Tom!" "Shucks, Tusk, that ole thing's been fixed up way back at home," Hewlet evasively replied. "It ain't fixed up when he comes down heah an' buhns me out, I reckon!" "Naw, I reckon not," the other had to admit. "What you goin' to do?" "What you reckon I'm goin' to do?" Tusk growled.
In the war he gained the reputation of a very brave, but a very cruel and very rough fellow, and therefore was relied on by his officers, yet never liked by them. Persons of a similar disposition generally live on good terms with one another. Hewlet found out a corporal, one Blunt, much of the same humour with himself, never pleased when in safety, nor afraid though in the midst of danger.
"I'se tol' to fetch her 'foh de trouble lands on you." Tom paled. So they had changed their minds! He cursed his drunken folly for having tried to bluff two gentlemen of their stamp, and Mrs. Hewlet set up a wail of lamentation as she would have done upon any provocation whatsoever, real or fancied.
Happy was it for them that they were all dead before his disastrous end. How Hewlet came to be employed as a watchman a little before his death, the papers I have give me no account of, only that he was in that station at the time of the death of Joseph Candy, for whose murder he was indicted for giving him a mortal bruise on the head with his staff.
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