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Luckily for Bray, whose mingled emotions under Parkhurst's eloquence were beginning to be hysterical, the foreman interrupted. "Well, boys! it's time we got to work again, and took another heave at the old ledge! But now that this job of Neworth's is over I don't mind tellin' ye suthin." As their leader usually spoke but little, and to the point, the four men gathered around him.
Under this recital poor Bray sat as completely crushed as when the fair daughter of Neworth had descended upon his shoulders at the spring. He saw it all! HIS was the fault. It was HIS delay and dalliance with her that had checked Neworth's visit; worse than that, it was his subsequent audacity and her defense of him that would probably prevent any renewal of the negotiations.
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