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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Now, don't get excited, but mix some brandy and water, and we'll have your mother telling us who Owd Ben is, or was, before Hawk-eye comes back to disturb us. Judging by the noises I hear, he's busy outside." "That's father!" shrieked Minnie hysterically. "Good Lord! Has your father " For an instant, Hart was nearly alarmed, but Grant's voice came authoritatively: "It's all right, Bates.
He remembered Elkin's make-up as Svengali, of course, and could have kicked himself for not associating earlier a set of sable whiskers with the black wig and the bullet-torn hat. But, Owd Ben! What figure did that redoubtable ghost cut in the mystery? "There are certain lacunae in your otherwise vigorous and thrilling story, constable," went on Hart.
He had brought the poor prodigal to the top of a lane leading down to his father's house; there he stood, covered in rags and dirt, his head bare and his shoes gone; he is just timidly stopping at the corner of the lane debating whether he shall go on or turn back, when at that moment out comes the old man to look up and down the road; he sees that bit of human misery at the lane end, and in an instant recognizes him as his son, "'Mother! mother! exclaims th' owd man, 'quick! quick! here's aar Jack standing at top o' th' loin.
Yet all the while she was haunted by a white, miserable face; and all the while she was conscious of two black moving dots in the Murk Muir Pass opposite her solitary, desolate, a contrast to the huzzaing crowd around. That is how the champion challenge Dale Cup, the world-known Shepherds' Trophy, came to wander no more; won outright by the last of the Gray Dogs of Kenmuir Owd Bob.
Gazing into the expiring embers, she saw the forms of long ago; and talking first to herself, and then to her son and his wife, she continued, in a crooning voice: 'It's fifty year come next Whisundy sin thi faither brought me here, lad fifty year, and it only seems like yesterday. We were wed at th' owd church i' Manchester.
"We shall see what happens when Owd Bob beats him for the Cup, as he certainly will. That'll be the critical moment." As things were, the little man spent all his spare moments with the Cup between his knees, burnishing it and crooning to Wullie: "I never saw a fairer, I never lo'ed a dearer, And neist my heart I'll wear her, For fear my jewel tine." "There, Wullie! look at her! is she no bonnie?
'Betty, said Robin, wipin' his face wi' his sleeve, 'it's bin dry weather latly. So th' owd lass took th' hint, an' fetched 'em a quart o' ale. While they stood i'th middle o'th floor suppin' their ale, Betty took th' candle an' went a-lookin' at this organ; and hoo couldn't tell whatever to make on it.... Did'n yo ever see a weshin'-machine, Nanny?" "Never i' my life," said Nanny.
Bulmer had called twice but Miss Iris happened to be out on both occasions. Nevertheless, at breakfast on Tuesday, he warned his niece not to keep her admirer dangling at arm's length. "E's a queer owd codger," explained the philosopher. "Play up to 'im a bit, an' you'll be able to twist 'im round your little finger.
He was received by Furneaux and Grant more in sorrow than in anger, a pose on their part which he blandly disregarded. He helped himself to the remains of the decanter of port. "The next point of vital interest in the narrative is to establish, by such evidence as is available, who Owd Ben is, or was," he said.
'Howd yor noise! said David, peremptorily. 'If yo wanted to keep out o' their way, yo could do't fasst enough. 'How! they inquired, with equal curtness. 'Yo needn't meet in th' town at aw. Theer's plenty o' places up on t' moor, and he waved his hand towards the hills behind him, lying clear in the autumn moonlight. Theer's th' owd smithy who'd find yo there?
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