'Do you suppose you're going to follow me
everywhere for the next week? Are you afraid I shall run away? If I
mean to do so, do you think you can stop me? You'll just wait here
till I come back, which will be before ten o'clock. Do you hear?'
She looked at him fiercely, but his energy was too much for her, and
perforce she let him go. As soon as he had left the house, she too
sat down and indited a letter. It ran thus:
'DEAR MOTHER,--The old feller has gawn of it apened at jest after
six e'clock if you want to now I shall come and sea you at ten
'clock to-morow moning and I beleve hes got the will but hes a beest
and theers a game up you may take your hothe so I remain C. S.'
This document she took to the nearest pillar-post, then returned and
sat brooding.
By the first hansom available Joseph was driven right across London
to a certain dull street in Chelsea. Before dismissing the vehicle
he knocked at the door of a lodging-house and made inquiry for Mr.
Scawthorne. To his surprise and satisfaction, Mr. Scawthorne
happened to be at home; so the cabman was paid, and Joseph went up
to the second floor.
In his shabby little room Scawthorne sat smoking and reading.
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