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Fairchild had the peculiar gift of being able to recite a different prayer off by heart applicable to every conceivable emergency; whilst John, their man-servant, was a real "handy-man," for he was not only gardener, but looked after the horse and trap, cleaned out the pigsties, and waited at table.
'They two dogs, they be summat like a couple o' wild b'ys; they keeps the passon and the mistress in, not for to say hot water, but bilin' water, for the livelong day! constantly declared Binks, who was the handy-man at the Vicarage, and, in fact, handy-man at the little church as well, he being both factotum and sexton.
Your reputation is none of the best." "Thank you, boss!" said Montgomery gratefully. "Mr. Gilmore probably expects to use you for his own ends regardless of the consequences to you," finished the judge. "Supposin' " began the handy-man huskily, "supposin', boss, I was to go into court and swear to something that wasn't so; what's that?" and he bent a searching glance on the judge's face.
Moxlow in the morning," replied the judge quietly and with apparent indifference, but covertly he was watching the effect of his words on Montgomery. "And then they'll be after me!" cried the handy-man. "Very likely," said the judge placidly. Montgomery glanced about as though he half expected to see Gilmore rise up out of some shadowy corner.
Gilmore leaned back in his easy-chair and crossed his legs. "Go on!" he ordered briefly. "A handy-man like me doin' all kinds of jobs for all kinds of people is sure to see some curious things, ain't he, boss?" "Well?" "I'm here to tell you what I seen, boss; and every word of it will be God A'mighty's truth!" "It had better be!" rejoined Gilmore quietly, but with significant emphasis.
However, to find employment in a community where there were two men to one job was not easy, but happily or unhappily Bill had a smattering of many trades, and eventually there came an opening as handy-man at a mine. It was a lowly position, and Bill had little pride in it, for he was put to helping the cook, waiting on table, washing dishes, sweeping cabins, making beds, and the like.
"You ask Marsh, boss, what it all means. I got nothin' more to say! Ask him who killed old man McBride! If he don't know, no man on this green earth does!" The judge's face twitched convulsively, but he made no answer to this. "Ask him!" repeated the handy-man, and swinging awkwardly on his heel went from the room without a single backward glance.
Old Jim House, the handy-man at Dowd's Tavern, inserted his shaggy head through the dining-room door and informed the editor of the Sun in a far from ceremonious manner that he had an "item" for the paper. "I'll be out as soon as I've finished breakfast," said Mr. Pollock. "Well, you can't say I didn't tell ye," said Jim, and withdrew his head.
"I didn't know but Andy Gilmore might be with you, boss," said Montgomery, clearing his throat. "No, he's not here," replied Langham quietly. "He's left town." "Yes, but he'll be comin' back!" said the handy-man with a short laugh. "No, he's gone for good." "Well, I ain't sorry. I hope to God I never see him again he beat me up awful!
He was pantin' like he'd run a mile, and I heard him say in a whisper, 'Oh, my God! just like that, 'Oh, my God!" The handy-man paused with this grotesque mimicry of terror. "And then?" prompted Moxlow, in the breathless silence. "And then he took off up the alley as if all hell was whoopin' after him!"
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