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But he had reckoned without Hetty, who had seated herself on the edge of the barge and who now shook her feet free of Johnny Whitelamb's rough clamps, and, springing from the deck to the towpath, took him by the collar as he turned. "Go!" she cried, and with her open palm dealt him a stinging slap across the cheek. "Go!"
John Whitelamb's gaze travelled back to the preacher. Up to this he had heard the voice only, and the dead man in his grave below speaking through that voice. Now he listened to the words. If the dead man spoke through them, what a change had death wrought what wisdom had he found in the dust that equals all! What had become of the old confident righteousness, the old pride of intellect?
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