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The room was plainly but comfortably furnished as became the proprietor's fortune and occupation. Closer acquaintance, it is to be said, had dissipated the latent dread, which, as has been seen, marked Uel's first thought of intimacy between the stranger and the child.
'And you are sure that you would not like first to be conducted to your apartments? 'Not yet. I will wait till Dimmock comes; he cannot fail to be here soon. 'Then we will have tea served in father's private room the proprietor's private room, you know. 'Good! he said.
During another summer flood the whole of the pleasure ground at Evesham, beside the Avon, was under water several feet deep; the water poured in at the lower windows of the adjoining hotel, and the proprietor's casks of beer and cider in the cellars, ready for the regatta, were lifted from their stands and bumped against walls and ceilings.
The officer remarked that he knew for a fact that the matter began there, and although the pig had not yet been caught it had been recognised as "belonging to the proprietor's family."
Christopher straightened a pen and ink sketch of a workman on the wall. It was a clever piece of work, life-like and sympathetic. "She did that," said Mrs. Eliot with a proprietor's pride. "She was considered clever that way, I've been told. That's another of hers on the easel over there." Christopher examined it and gave a gasp.
She had made her father make many a sacrifice of his money and own wishes, but she repaid him with her real affection for him. As the evening drew on, Hardy and the two boys left, and tried the proprietor's little stream with a fly. The trout rose freely, and Hardy caught about a dozen.
He had another man with him, but it was evident that their business wasn't going to take long. The door into the corridor was left open behind them, and there Rose waited. When the other man came out, she stepped inside. There was nothing kindly about the look the proprietor's eyes directed at her when he saw who she was. He looked up at her with a frown of resignation.
He followed the lad into a drinking-saloon in the rear of which was a gambling-room. He soon ascertained the proprietor's name, and learned that his family occupied the upper part of the house.
"D'jou hit him?" queried Higgins, gazing with interest at the proprietor's knuckles. "Yes. I swung for his jaw and went high. Teeth " Mr. Padden said, vaguely. He turned a shrewd eye upon Anthony. "I heard about the game to-day. That was all right." Kirk grinned boyishly. "I didn't have much to do with it; these are the fellows." "Don't believe him," interrupted Ringold.
This service, she estimated, would take half an hour of the proprietor's time, if he moved with the customary deliberation of his class, and would, of course, make superfluous any explanation of her wait in the garage, and of her nervousness, if he happened to be sufficiently observant to notice that. It was really fortunate that the blow-out had occurred.
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