Part 44 (2/2)
Mordaunt pondered They were alone and he knew Shanks's sullen ferocity On the whole, he thought he was in soer unless he could satisfy the fellow Shanks did not round for standing by Mr Dearhaame,” he said
”If I thowt you'd send keeper after hty impatience ”If I wanted to send the keeper, I'd certainly do so But how et?”
”nobbut two T' birds is varra scarce”
”Then I don't see why you ran the risk of stealing Langrigg pheasants when there are plenty in Red Bank woods”
Shanks was silent for a moment or two, and then replied, as if Mordaunt's carelessness had banished his doubts: ”Mr Dearham put us oot o' dabbin and blew 't up”
”It's possible he'll put you out of Bank-end cottage soon”
”Do you ken that?” Shanks asked with a start
”I heard so of the kind Dearha about your getting it, and he's tired of you both You are letting Bank-end go to ruin and people coed to a savage frown
”If he puts us oot, there's nea place we'll can gan”
Mordaunt hesitated He i to do with the accident to Jim's car, and it was obvious that the felloas bitterly revengeful At the beginning, Mordaunt had not s; he had done so half-consciously, but now he hborhood would let you have a cottage You et a laborer's job in the town, but you would have to work hard, and I don't know about your father He's rheue you”
”T'oad man wouldn't could live away from marsh, and I' t'hooses,” Shanks replied
Mordaunt thought the fellow did not exaggerate Shanks and his father would find no place in organized industry They belonged to the open spaces, the wide marsh and the wet sands
”Then it's lucky I and not the gaht,” he said ”Mr Dearhaine you will soon give hiate, he jumped over and vanished in the wood For a few moments all was quiet, and then Mordaunt heard steps in the road He left the gate and when he had gone a few yards met dick Halliday, who stopped and looked at hiht I sao people,” dick rereed ”It's curious the other fellow didn't hear you farther off, because I iet near us?”
”Not at first They're rass When I saw you at the gate I suspected poachers and came on quietly Who was the other fellow?”
”To out of the ith some pheasants and warned him he'd have to leave Bank-end if Jim knew”
”Do you ined he understood so like that He is a powerful fellow, and carried a heavy stick Still,him doesn't bind you”
”I don't know; perhaps it does bind me, in a way,” dick replied ”All the sa thief; I'd have turned hihborhood”
Mordaunt hesitated He would have liked dick to tell Jie from Shanks For all that, he did not see how he could persuade dick to do so, because he did not want hiet on,” he said ”Bernard grumbles when I'm late for dinner”