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Take my horse." "Yours?" "Yes. Uncle gave him to me, and I give him to you. You must...." "But they'll know...." "No, they won't...." "But tomorrow when they find...." She was facing him squarely, holding to his arms and shaking him. "Matty's husband is the stableman. He knows about you. He'll say that he turned the horse into the pasture. You must.... Joe! Sam!
After this little bit of history-making I hurried back to the commonplace task of clipping my mare's heels, an operation requiring great agility on the part of the clipper. "For a 'stableman, as I am now, the evening is rather a busy one.
But a fly required, in Greenwich, an interview with a stableman and a negotiation which, though we were assured it would be fairly conducted, we decided to forego, and contented ourselves with exploring the old hostelry, close and faint of atmosphere and of a smell at once mouldy and dusty.
"Why, we hain't sorted out more'n a million feet of his logs," cried Rollway Charlie. "He hain't SEEN no logs yet!" They turned with new enthusiasm to the work of shunting "H" logs into the channel. In ten minutes, however, the stableman picked his way out over the booms with a message for Orde. "Mr. Heinzman's ashore, and wants to see you," said he. Orde and Jim Denning exchanged glances.
That family likeness in the voice was brought home to us in a curious way just about this time, when I was in my tenth year. My brother went one day to Buenos Ayres, and arriving at the stable where our horses were always put up, long after dark, he left his horse, and on going out called to the stableman, giving him some direction.
Polikey, while young, was employed in a horse-breeding establishment in a neighboring village. The head stableman was a notorious horse-thief, known far and wide as a great rogue, who, for his many misdeeds, was finally exiled to Siberia. Under his instruction Polikey underwent a course of training, and, being but a boy, was easily induced to perform many evil deeds.
Well, the morning after the missus was killed, I went early for I knew I'd soon be arrested to a stableman at Beccles you know old Harris and I made him swear to give a letter to Bob the moment Bob put foot in Southampton, and to nobody else. In the letter I told Bob where he was to look for so-and-so, and how he was to prove my innocence "
"Corn bread, hominy, side meat, ven'zin," he shouted in the kitchen. "Stir yourself, you black rascal, and dish up the gentleman's supper." Skenedonk walked boldly to the kitchen door and saw our landlord stewing and broiling, performing the offices of cook as he had performed those of stableman.
That idea now seemed insignificant, compared with the present possibilities. "I'm a free agent," he soliloquized. "I think I'll take a hand in this, myself." He snapped his fingers as he turned and hastened to Dobe's stall. He led Dobe out to the stable floor, got his saddle from the office, told the sleepy stableman that he was going to take a little ride, and saddled Dobe.
S- is still keeping house meanwhile, much perturbed by the placid indolence of the brown girl. The stableman cooks, and very well too. This is colonial life a series of makeshifts and difficulties; but the climate is fine, people feel well and make money, and I think it is not an unhappy life.
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