he finds who doubts man asked miss abbey u a skill in what he finds perhaps said his evil head miss abbey her brow at him as he darkly at her if you re out upon the river pretty nigh every tide and if you want to find a man or woman in the river you ll greatly help your luck miss abbey by knocking a man or woman on the head and em in gracious was the involuntary exclamation of miss soil mind you returned the other stretching forward over the half door to throw his words into the bar for his voice was as if the head of his boat s were down his throat i say so miss abbey and mind you i ll follow him up miss abbey and mind you bring him to book at last if its twenty year hence i will who s he to be favoured along of his daughter ain t i got a daughter of my own with that flourish and seeming to have talked himself rather more drunk and much more ferocious than he had begun by being mr took up his pint pot and off to the was not there but a pretty strong muster of miss pupils were who exhibited when occasion required the greatest on the clock s striking ten and miss abbey s appearing at the door and addressing a certain person in a faded scarlet jacket with george jones your time s up i told your wife you should be punctual jones rose gave the company good night and retired at half past ten on miss abbey s looking in again and saying william bob and you are all due bob and with similar took their leave and greater wonder than these when a bottle person in a glazed hat had after some considerable hesitation ordered another glass of gin and water of the attendant and when miss abbey instead of sending it appeared in person saying captain you have had as much as will do you good not only did the captain feebly rub his knees and contemplate the fire without offering a word of protest but the rest of the company murmured ay ay captain miss abbey s right you be guided by miss abbey captain nor was miss abbey s vigilance in by this submission but rather sharpened for looking round on the faces of her school and two other young persons in need of she thus bestowed it tom it s time for a young fellow who s going to be married next month to be at home and asleep and you needn t him mr jack for i know your work begins early tomorrow and i say the same to you so come good night vol i b mutual friend like good lads upon which the blushing looked to and the blushing looked to on the question who should rise first and finally both rose together and went out on the broad grin followed by miss abbey in whose presence the company did not take the liberty of grinning likewise in such an establishment tne white pot boy with his shirt sleeves arranged in a tight roll on each bare shoulder was a mere hint of the possibility of physical force thrown out as a matter of state and form exactly at the closing hour all the guests who were left filed out in the best order miss abbey standing at the half door of the bar to hold a ceremony of review and dismissal all wished miss abbey good night and miss abbey wished to all except the pot boy looking on then had the conviction borne in upon his soul that the man was outcast and from the six jolly fellowship you bob said miss abbey to this pot boy run round to s and tell his daughter that i want to speak to her with swiftness bob departed and returned following him arrived as one of the two female of the fellowship arranged on the snug little table by the bar fire miss s supper of hot and potatoes come in and sit ye down girl said miss abbey can you eat a bit no thank you miss i have had my supper i have had mine too i think said miss abbey pushing away the dish and more than enough of it i am put out i am very sorry for it miss then why in the name of goodness miss abbey sharply do you do it do it miss there there don t look astonished ought to have begun with a word of explanation but it s my way to make short at things you bob there put the chain upon the door and get ye down to your supper with an alacrity that seemed no less to the met than to the supper met bob obeyed and his boots were heard descending towards the bed of the river then began miss how often have i held out to you the opportunity of getting clear of your father and doing well very often miss very often and i might as well have spoken to the iron of the strongest sea going steamer that passes the fellowship no miss pleaded because that would not be thankful and i am i vow and declare i am half ashamed of myself for taking such our mutual an interest in yon said miss abbey for i don t believe i should do it if you were not good looking why ain t you ugly merely answered this difficult question with an glance however you ain t resumed miss so it s no use going into that i must take you as i find you which indeed is what i ve done and you mean to say you are still obstinate not obstinate miss i hope firm i suppose you call it then yes miss fixed like never was 