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Weel, t' oad ways for t' oad men, but I'se niver deny again that the young and new are good." He sat down and while Mrs. Railton began to bustle about the table Grace stole away. She knew she ought not to have come, and had done so with a feeling of rebellion against her father's harshness, although she tried to persuade herself that Hayes was most to blame.
Might mak' a fair landlord if he was letten and had t' money; but oad Hayes is grasping and always at his tail." "The rent-roll's good. The estate could be managed well." "There's t' mortgages and Osborn canna keep money. When he has it he must spend. There would be nea poor landlord's, if I had my way. I'd let them putten rents up if they had money and spent it on the land.
Better safe than sorry, though it's a terrible loss o' time." "Then, why don't you look for an easier way down?" "There's only the oad green road. Fellside's ower steep for horses." "Well, if I can think of a better way I'll tell you," Grace replied, smiling, and hurried on after the others. They left her at the Tarnside gate and she stopped abruptly as she went up the drive.
He looked tired, his face was rather haggard, and his clothes were wet. Tom, the shepherd, followed and sat down by the fire. "It was nea an easy job, but we manished it," he said. "Swinset sheep is thief sheep, but they're none a match for Kit's oad dog." Kit stopped abruptly as he crossed the floor and his heart beat. "Ah!" he said. "Miss Osborn?"
Browt it doon on stane-boats by the oad green road. Howiver, I reckon it cost them summat, counting their time" Kit gave him a paper. "This is what our peat has cost us; I've charged our labor and what the horses would have earned if we had been paid for plowing." They studied the figures, passing the paper around, and then one said, "But peat costs you nowt.
Aw t' same, it willunt pay to send a man or two noo and then. You must work in a gang; ivery man at his proper job." "It was done like that in oad days," said one. Peter looked at Kit, who did not speak, for both knew when enough was said. Indeed, although he was hardly conscious of it yet, Kit had something of a leader's talent. For a few minutes the others smoked and thought.
Our folks are slow to fratch, but they're not quick at letting go," said Tom, who paused and added: "I wunner where Bell got his money; he had none when he took a job at mill in oad Osborn's time." This started Kit on another line of thought. Bell had, no doubt, saved something, for he was parsimonious, and was too keen a business man to leave his money in the bank.
After aw, they're mair your enemies than mine." "I don't understand you; I have no coal to sell." Bell looked up with a sour grin. "There's worse ways o' hurting a proud man than touching his pocket. If you dinna ken what's going on, it's time you watched young Kit. I'll say nea mair, but aw t 'oad wives are cracking and you can ask Mr. Hayes. He kens!"
"I did," he said. "I did," she responded with round blue eyes of wonder. "At the utmost the Church of England is a tabernacle on a road." "A 'oad that goes whe'?" she rhetorized. "Exactly," said the bishop, and put down his cup. "You see, my dear Lady Sunderbund," he resumed, "I am exactly in the same position of that man at the door."
"We had better try the fells, Tom," said Kit. The shepherd looked at the threatening sky and fading line of rugged heights. "Aw, yes. It's gan t' be a rough neet, but we'll try 't. We can rest a bit at oad mine-house this side Bleatarn ghyll." Now their route was fixed, Kit mused about something else.
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