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Fletcher took a look to see that Abiram was securely held; then started to wriggle to a pose of greater comfort. "I'd jump a house with that 'orror after me," he said bitterly. By intricate squirmings he laid a hand upon the cold patch of flesh that gazed starkly downwards from his stern. "If I ain't got hydrophobia I've got frost- bite," he moaned. "Cruel draught I've had through this 'ole.
"'If I was the pore gal I'd haunt 'im, ses the ordinary seaman; 'every night of 'is life I'd stand afore 'im dripping with water and moaning. "'P'r'aps she will, ses the cook; 'let's 'ope so, at any rate. "I didn't answer 'em; I was too dead-beat. Besides which, I've got a 'orror of ghosts, and the idea of being on the wharf alone of a night arter such a thing was a'most too much for me.
"'If I was the pore gal I'd haunt 'im, ses the ordinary seaman; 'every night of 'is life I'd stand afore 'im dripping with water and moaning. "'P'r'aps she will, ses the cook; 'let's 'ope so, at any rate. "I didn't answer 'em; I was too dead-beat. Besides which, I've got a 'orror of ghosts, and the idea of being on the wharf alone of a night arter such a thing was a'most too much for me.
"It belonged to that 'orror Bendigo Jones, and 'e went and give it to the General." The speaker swallowed once or twice. "Then the General, 'e gives it back, in a manner of speaking. Only Bendy had gone by the time it come, and I 'adn't. Lumme! wot a life." Two men were seated at a table in a restaurant. Dinner was over, and from all around them came the murmur of complacent and well-fed London.
"A r, A a a it stroiks me that that you manetion his the hode about hangger and ope and orror and revenge you know. I've eard Mrs. Sitdowns hencored in it at Common Garden and Doory Lane in the ight of her poplarity you know. By the boye, hall the hactin in Amareka is werry orrid.
He talks only a blooming jargon fit for snakes and spiders and that like." Nick laughed agreeably, having a request on his tongue's end. "He has moved his beastly den o' reptiles into my cellar to stay till next season, sir, a 'orror I'd not stand for a minute, so I wouldn't, only he pays me very 'andsome for the same." "Then he intends remaining here all summer, does he?"
The lady merely nodded her head and smiled. "Then what have you been doing, Shorty, all these years?" "This," said he, pointing to the show. "I never got over the 'orror of that night, so I made my mind up not to go a rovin' agen; and this 'ere girl, that I thought so badly of, 'as helped me to make a livin' ever since I came across her.
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