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I shall never forget those great rough boxes made of foreign wood, nor the intense interest with which I watched them as they were carried in upon the backs of the stout railway vanmen and set carefully in the large back-room.
"Aye!" he said, with a cunning glance. "Aye! that's not a bad notion. I can see my way in that respect. But how am I going to get into a van here, and got out of it there, without the vanmen knowing?" "I've thought it all out," answered Christopher. "You must keep snug in this room until afternoon. We'll get the first van off in the morning say by noon.
The builders' labourers are rather better paid if their employment were not so intermittent with an average of from fourpence halfpenny to fivepence an hour. Carters, too, and vanmen employed by coal-merchants, builders, and other tradesmen in the town, are comparatively well off with constant work at eighteen or twenty shillings a week.
They shout, they curse, they put their hands to their mouths trumpet wise and bellow at each other, these cabbies, vanmen, busmen, all angry at the block in the narrow way.
I smiled at Boyce's ostrich-like faith in the invisibility of his hinder bulk. What could occur in Wellingsford without it being known at once to vanmen and postmen and barbers and servants and masters and mistresses? How could a man hope to conceal his goings and comings and secret actions? He might just as well expect to take a secluded noontide bath in the fountain in Piccadilly Circus.
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