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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Because you are yet in darkness," said Jeph, contemptuously. "Hold your tongue. I must be off at once. Market folk can get into the town by the low lane out there, away from the camp of the spoilers, early in the morning, and I must hasten to enlist under Captain Venn.
Half-a-dozen lean, hungry-looking troopers were clanking down the lane, and one called out, "Ha! good luck! Just what we want! Beef and forage. Turn about, young bumpkin, I say. Drive your cattle into camp. For the King's service." "They are father's," sturdily replied Jeph, and called aloud for "Father."
It was a long walk, but Steadfast was only too glad to take it for the sake of such security, and besides, there was a real pleasure in being with Jeph, little as he seemed like the same idle, easy-going brother, except perhaps in those little touches of selfishness and boastfulness, which, though Stead did not realise them, did recall the original Jeph.
His quiet, thoughtful ways had earned his father's trust, though he was much slower of speech and less ready than his elder brother, and looked heavy both in countenance and figure beside Jeph, who was tall, slim, and full of activity and animation.
Stead wondered whether all this was out of regret at the treatment he had undergone, or whether it was to put him off his guard, and this occupied him when Jeph began to preach, as he did uninterruptedly for the last mile, without any of the sense, if there were any, reaching the mind of the auditor.
Get a coffin made I used to be six feet when I was young, but I dessay I'm shorter now and get the undertaker to cast up beforehand wot it'll all come to, and pay him, and bring me the receipts. Will ye do this, lad? "`I will, if you wish it, but "`If I didn't wish it I wouldn't ask it. "`Well, Jeph, said Guy, earnestly, `I will do it. "`Thank'ee, lad, thank 'ee.
Stead continued to see Jeph when taking in the market produce, for which he was always duly paid.
"Well, good-night, Bax; good-night, old Jeph." Tommy departed, and the two men stood alone. "God bless the lad. You'll be kind to him, Jeph, when I'm away?" "Trust me, Bax," said the old man, grasping his friend's hand. Without another word, Bax turned on his heel, and his tall, stalwart figure was quickly lost to view in the dark shadows of the night.
When he heard Long Orrick's last words, and felt how utterly powerless he was in his weakness to counteract him in his designs, he could not prevent the escape of a deep groan. The effect on the two men was electrical. They sprang up, filled with superstitious horror, and fled precipitately from the cave. Old Jeph staggered out after them, and made for the cottage of his friend Coleman.
Nevertheless, I shall leave no stone unturned till I find them! For what is written 'Thou shalt break down their altars." "Jeph," said Stead, firmly. "You left home because of your grief and rage at father's death. Would you have me break the solemn charge he laid on me?"
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