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But the backs of the little shops make from the water a graceless collective hump, and the inside view is the diverting one. The big arch of the bridge like the arches of all the bridges is the waterman's friend in wet weather. The gondolas, when it rains, huddle beside the peopled barges, and the young ladies from the hotels, vaguely fidgeting, complain of the communication of insect life.
"He has done it before but am I to be one of Dan Waterman's lackeys?" There was a silence. "Like John Lawrence," continued Ryder, in a low voice. "Have you heard of Lawrence? He was a banker one of the oldest in the city. And Waterman gave him an order, and he defied him. Then he broke him; took away every dollar he owned. And the man came to him on his knees.
The Gentleman." "You'll ha met him than, I expagt?" cooed the waterman in his cautious way. "He met me more like," replied Big Jerry with the grim humour of the whole-hearted man, who gives hard knocks and takes them all in good part. "Not but what we was expectin him, you'll understand." "You knaw'd he was comin than surely?" came the waterman's slow musical voice. "Know'd it!" roared the other.
Renshaw paused with the air of an exile bidding farewell to his native land, sighed and trotted out. Smith put his feet upon the table, flicked a speck of dust from his coat-sleeve, and resumed his task of reading the proofs of Luella Granville Waterman's "Moments in the Nursery." He had not been working long, when Pugsy Maloney, the office boy, entered. "Say!" said Pugsy.
"Ay, the press is hot in these days. Cap'n sent us here to be out o' the way, and the orficers to look arter us. Not but what 'tis safer for them too; for if Mr. Sunman showed his cock-eyes anywhere near the Pool, he'd be nabbed by the bailiffs, sure as he's second mate o' the Good Intent. Goin' to sea's bad enough, but the Waterman's Rest and holdin' on the slack here's worse, eh, mateys?"
The "little millionaires" were following as a kind of body-guard; one of them, who was short and pudgy, was half running, to keep up with Waterman's heavy stride. When they came to the coat-room, they crowded the attendants away, and one helped the great man on with his coat, and another held his hat, and another his stick, and two others tried to talk to him.
This boat, with the approach of winter, I had caused to be brought down the river and had housed in a waterman's shed just above Westminster, until the return of spring should bring back once more the happy days of its employment. In my heart I blessed the chance that had stored it ready to my hand.
Psmith was deep in Lucia Granville Waterman's "Moments in the Nursery." He turned to Billy Windsor. "Luella Granville Waterman," he said, "is not by any chance your nom-de-plume, Comrade Windsor?" "Not on your life. Don't think it." "I am glad," said Psmith courteously.
On the following morning, to make a long story short, I bade adieu to Dad and mother, both of them accompanying me to the landing steps at the foot of Hardway to see me off in the waterman's wherry that Dad hailed for the conveyance of myself and sea-chest to the Illustrious.
The skipper agreed, and after exacting renewed assurances of secrecy from both men, waited impatiently in the private bar of the Waterman's Arms while they put off from the stairs and boarded the steamer.
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