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When she looked again, there was no barge, no river, no daylight, and a man whom she had never before seen held a candle close to her face. 'Now, Missis, said he; 'where did you come from and where are you going to? The poor soul confusedly asked the counter-question where she was? 'I am the Lock, said the man. 'The Lock? 'I am the Deputy Lock, on job, and this is the Lock-house.
And then he told Stephen such a lot of funny stories, and treated him with such evident consideration, that the small boy felt quite flattered and delighted. So they reached the Cockchafer. Here Stephen, whose former visits had all been to the lock-house, pulled up. "I say," said he, "is this a public-house?" "Getting on that way," said Mr Cripps.
"Oh! he's gone," said Stephen. "Didn't you know?" "No! When was that?" "The very time you and Noll went up to Cambridge. The magistrates took away his licence for allowing gambling to go on at his house. He stuck on at the lock-house for some time, and then disappeared suddenly. They said he was wanted for some bit of swindling or other. Anyhow, he's gone."
He had fished with assiduity on the previous evening, but the light was short, and he had fished unsuccessfully. He had fished again that day with better luck, and had carried his fish home to Plashwater Weir Mill Lock-house, in a bundle. She often moralized over her work on the tricks and the manners of that venerable cheat, but made her little purchases elsewhere, and lived a secluded life.
Paul was about to obey the order and turn the boat, when, casting his eyes on the bank, he started suddenly to his feet and exclaimed, pointing towards the lock-house, "Hullo! I say, there's something up there!"
The canal-boat is taking us along the James in the moonlit night, and by the time the day has broken we are within two miles of the Natural Bridge. A rickety team awaits us at the lock-house where we disembark. Through an air filled with golden vapor, and with the mists of the morning yet hanging in the trees by the wayside, we proceed on our journey.
He awoke to find that it was daylight, and that his visitor was already astir, and going out to the river-side to cool his head: 'Though I'm blest, muttered Riderhood at the Lock-house door, looking after him, 'if I think there's water enough in all the Thames to do THAT for you! Within five minutes he had taken his departure, and was passing on into the calm distance as he had passed yesterday.
From which Mr Rastle gathered there was a chance of seeing Mr Cripps junior at the residence of Mr Cripps senior, at Gusset Lock-house, and thither he accordingly went. Mr Cripps junior was there, sweetly smoking, and particularly amiable. In answer to Mr Rastle's inquiries, he made no secret of his belief that the boy had run away for fear of exposure.
With the look of one just awakened, he followed Riderhood into the Lock-house, where the latter produced from a cupboard some cold salt beef and half a loaf, some gin in a bottle, and some water in a jug. The last he brought in, cool and dripping, from the river. 'There, T'otherest, said Riderhood, stooping over him to put it on the table.
This ain't no Thames; I know bettor than that." "Oh, but, cousin Juliet," Emily put in, "the Thames is young here, and it is old at London. Some day you will get old, and once on a time mother was a little girl like you." Still unconvinced the London child made no rejoinder. Mrs. Rowles began to cross to the lock-house by the planks of the lock. "Come carefully, Juliet, you are not used to this."
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