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Updated: June 14, 2025
He did not see Dawes for several days; then one morning as he ran upstairs from the Spiral room he almost collided with the burly metal-worker. "What the !" cried the smith. "Sorry!" said Paul, and passed on. "SORRY!" sneered Dawes. Paul whistled lightly, "Put Me among the Girls". "I'll stop your whistle, my jockey!" he said. The other took no notice.
He had been a metal-worker of some sort, and the victim of an explosion which had wrecked one side of his face and figure, and had made nothing less than a ghastly horror of him. The upward-flying stream of metal had struck him on the cheek and chin, and had left him writhen and distorted there almost beyond imagination.
The picture was to represent that fine metal-worker of the ancien régime who, when the Revolution came, took his ragged children with him and went to the palace which contained his work work for which he had never been paid and hammered it to pieces.
For with matronly composure she had eased my gentleman as soon as she had provided for her guest. In comes the metal-worker, Sor Matteo, burly but watchful in a greasy apron, eyes the lad up and down with much burdensome pondering of hand to scrubby chin, as to say to Mariota "I'm no fool."
Over the filled-in grave they heaved rocks. "Does anybody know his name?" asked Allan. "He was called Relzang," answered Frumnos. "I knew him well a metal-worker, of the best." "That's so now I remember," assented Stern. "What was his totem?" "A circle, with a bird's head within." "Let it be placed here, then."
"Well, I invested his money, poor fellow, in a bubble scheme, and lost it. I lived about London by myself for some time, and then I returned to Christminster, as my father who was also in London, and had started as an art metal-worker near Long-Acre wouldn't have me back; and I got that occupation in the artist-shop where you found me... I said you didn't know how bad I was!"
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