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"But," Mr Pamphlett waved a hand, "we need not talk about ejectment orders. By the terms of your lease, if you will examine them, the landlord is entitled to examine his premises at any reasonable hour. You won't deny this to be a reasonable hour. . . . Well, constable? What about that cupboard?" Nicky-Nan, reaching the doorway, gave a gasp.
She has two maids; one of them in a grey velours dress that must have been one of Mrs Tresawna's cast-offs, for it couldn't possibly have come out of her wages; though, by the fit, it might have been made for her." A little before ten o'clock Nicky-Nan climbed the stairs painfully to his bedroom, undressed in part, and lay down but not to sleep.
"I've come across the expression," said Nicky-Nan. "Well, what I say is, Down here, in this corner of the world though, mind you, I'm not sayin' anything against it you don't reelise things: you reely don't. Now I come from Bodmin, as I think I must have told you." "You did." So your mind gets enlarged almost without your knowin' it, and you feel what's at stake."
But, as we have recorded, Nicky-Nan, having suffered in early life from a woman, had been turned to a distrust of the sex; a general distrust which preoccupied with its shadow the bright exception that, on a second thought, he was ready enough to recognise in Mrs Penhaligon. This second thought came too late, however.
She went to the kitchen, she passed through the kitchen to the inner room. . . . No children! "'Beida!" "You naughty children come down this moment!" Still no answer. She turned upon Nicky-Nan. "If they're really here and have been breakin' your glass " "You never heard no complaint from me, ma'am," answered Nicky-Nan, still intent on fixing his staple.
An armed cruiser, that had been practising gunnery at intervals during the day, was heading home from Plymouth. A tug had come out and was fetching back her targets. Nicky-Nan arose very deliberately, made for his 'taty-patch in the hollow beyond the pilot house, laid his bundle on the ground, and began to dig in and cover his golden coins, fetching a handful at a time.
I was thinkin' so just now when I measured it. Suffer much from red-spider in these parts?" "Not so far as I know. . . . But 'tis a curious thing," went on Nicky-Nan, "to find a man like you turned to sojerin'." "Ah," cried Corporal Sandercock, eager for sympathy, "yes, well you may say that!
But you are mistaken, the pair of you, in taking this line with me: and your mistake, though it comes from ignorance of the law, may happen to cost you both pretty dearly." He paused, while Nicky-Nan and 'Beida exchanged glances. "Don't you heed him," said 'Beida encouragingly. "He's only gassin' again." But she faced up for a new attack.
What I said aloud was, 'You mustn't take notice of everything you see Nicky-Nan do. 'Tis only his tricks. 'Tricks? says the Corporal. 'If a man behaved like that down to Penryn we should call 'en an eccentric. That's the tale, ma'am: an' the best part o' last night, what with puttin' two an' two together an' makin' neither head nor tail of it, I scarce closed an eye in my head."
Nicky-Nan, startled, raised himself upright on his knees and called in a tremor "No admittance!" As he staggered up and made for the door, to press his weight against it, Mrs Penhaligon spoke on the other side. "Mr Nanjivell!" "Ma'am?" "The postman, with a letter for you! I'll fetch it in, if you wish: but the poor fellow 'd like a clack, I can see."
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