Chapter 79

I was considering, and wondering what to do, for I was waiting for some people who were driving to Bramton, and would take me, and so I should be part way to Silverton. If I went now, I’d get no lift, and besides, the money couldna be counted till it was all in, so the crockman could take his pay of so much in the shilling. On both counts I was bound to wait. Missis Miller came up, quiet, and said she’d been there since the first and she’d heard a deal said about me, and the whispers were started by Grimble and Hug…