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diff --git a/10564.txt b/10564.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..41b7099 --- /dev/null +++ b/10564.txt @@ -0,0 +1,928 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Fairy Gold, by W.W. Jacobs + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Fairy Gold + Ship's Company, Part 4. + +Author: W.W. Jacobs + +Release Date: January 1, 2004 [EBook #10564] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FAIRY GOLD *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + +SHIP'S COMPANY + +By W.W. Jacobs + + + +[Illustration: Mr. Chase, with his friend in his powerful grasp, was +doing his best, as he expressed it, to shake the life out of him] + + + +FAIRY GOLD + + +"Come and have a pint and talk it over," said Mr. Augustus Teak. "I've +got reasons in my 'ead that you don't dream of, Alf." + +Mr. Chase grunted and stole a side-glance at the small figure of his +companion. "All brains, you are, Gussie," he remarked. "That's why it +is you're so well off." + +"Come and have a pint," repeated the other, and with surprising ease +pushed his bulky friend into the bar of the "Ship and Anchor." Mr. +Chase, mellowed by a long draught, placed his mug on the counter and +eyeing him kindly, said-- + +"I've been in my lodgings thirteen years." + +"I know," said Mr. Teak; "but I've got a partikler reason for wanting +you. Our lodger, Mr. Dunn, left last week, and I only thought of you +yesterday. I mentioned you to my missis, and she was quite pleased. You +see, she knows I've known you for over twenty years, and she wants to +make sure of only 'aving honest people in the 'ouse. She has got a +reason for it." + +He closed one eye and nodded with great significance at his friend. + +"Oh!" said Mr. Chase, waiting. + +"She's a rich woman," said Mr. Teak, pulling the other's ear down to his +mouth. "She--" + +"When you've done tickling me with your whiskers," said Mr. Chase, +withdrawing his head and rubbing his ear vigorously, "I shall be glad." + +Mr. Teak apologized. "A rich woman," he repeated. "She's been stinting +me for twenty-nine years and saving the money--my money!--money that I +'ave earned with the sweat of my brow. She 'as got over three 'undred +pounds!" + +"'Ow much?" demanded Mr. Chase. + +"Three 'undred pounds and more," repeated the other; "and if she had 'ad +the sense to put it in a bank it would ha' been over four 'undred by this +time. Instead o' that she keeps it hid in the 'Ouse." + +"Where?" inquired the greatly interested Mr. Chase. + +Mr. Teak shook his head. "That's just what I want to find out," he +answered. "She don't know I know it; and she mustn't know, either. +That's important." + +"How did you find out about it, then?" inquired his friend. + +"My wife's sister's husband, Bert Adams, told me. His wife told 'im in +strict confidence; and I might 'ave gone to my grave without knowing +about it, only she smacked his face for 'im the other night." + +"If it's in the house you ought to be able to find it easy enough," said +Mr. Chase. + +"Yes, it's all very well to talk," retorted Mr. Teak. "My missis never +leaves the 'ouse unless I'm with her, except when I'm at work; and if she +thought I knew of it she'd take and put it in some bank or somewhere +unbeknown to me, and I should be farther off it than ever." + +"Haven't you got no idea?" said Mr. Chase. + +"Not the leastest bit," said the other. "I never thought for a moment +she was saving money. She's always asking me for more, for one thing; +but, then women alway do. And look 'ow bad it is for her--saving money +like that on the sly. She might grow into a miser, pore thing. For 'er +own sake I ought to get hold of it, if it's only to save her from +'erself." + +Mr. Chase's face reflected the gravity of his own. + +"You're the only man I can trust," continued Mr. Teak, "and I thought if +you came as lodger you might be able to find out where it is hid, and get +hold of it for me." + +"Me steal it, d'ye mean?" demanded the gaping Mr. Chase. "And suppose +she got me locked up for it? I should look pretty, shouldn't I?" + +"No; you find out where it is hid," said the other; "that's all you need +do. I'll find someway of getting hold of it then." + +"But if you can't find it, how should I be able to?" inquired Mr. Chase. + +"'Cos you'll 'ave opportunities," said the other. "I take her out some +time when you're supposed to be out late; you come 'ome, let yourself in +with your key, and spot the hiding-place. I get the cash, and give you +ten-golden-sovereigns--all to your little self. It only occurred to me +after Bert told me about it, that I ain't been in the house alone for +years." + +He ordered some more beer, and, drawing Mr. Chase to a bench, sat down to +a long and steady argument. It shook his faith in human nature to find +that his friend estimated the affair as a twenty-pound job, but he was in +no position to bargain. They came out smoking twopenny cigars whose +strength was remarkable for their age, and before they parted Mr. Chase +was pledged to the hilt to do all that he could to save Mrs. Teak from +the vice of avarice. + +It was a more difficult undertaking than he had supposed. The house, +small and compact, seemed to offer few opportunities for the concealment +of large sums of money, and after a fortnight's residence he came to the +conclusion that the treasure must have been hidden in the garden. The +unalloyed pleasure, however, with which Mrs. Teak regarded the efforts +of her husband to put under cultivation land that had lain fallow for +twenty years convinced both men that they were on a wrong scent. Mr. +Teak, who did the digging, was the first to realize it, but his friend, +pointing out the suspicions that might be engendered by a sudden +cessation of labour, induced him to persevere. + +"And try and look as if you liked it," he said, severely. "Why, from the +window even the back view of you looks disagreeable." + +"I'm fair sick of it," declared Mr. Teak. "Anybody might ha' known she +wouldn't have buried it in the garden. She must 'ave been saving for +pretty near thirty years, week by week, and she couldn't keep coming out +here to hide it. 'Tain't likely." + +Mr. Chase pondered. "Let her know, casual like, that I sha'n't be 'ome +till late on Saturday," he said, slowly. "Then you come 'ome in the +afternoon and take her out. As soon as you're gone I'll pop in and have +a thorough good hunt round. Is she fond of animals?" + +"I b'lieve so," said the other, staring. "Why?" + +"Take 'er to the Zoo," said Mr. Chase, impressively. "Take two-penn'orth +o' nuts with you for the monkeys, and some stale buns for--for--for +animals as likes 'em. Give 'er a ride on the elephant and a ride on the +camel." + +"Anything else?" inquired Mr. Teak disagreeably. "Any more ways you can +think of for me to spend my money?" + +"You do as I tell you," said his friend. "I've got an idea now where it +is. If I'm able to show you where to put your finger on three 'undred +pounds when you come 'ome it'll be the cheapest outing you have ever 'ad. +Won't it?" + +Mr. Teak made no reply, but, after spending the evening in deliberation, +issued the invitation at the supper-table. His wife's eyes sparkled at +first; then the light slowly faded from them and her face fell. + +"I can't go," she said, at last. "I've got nothing to go in." + +"Rubbish!" said her husband, starting uneasily. + +"It's a fact," said Mrs. Teak. "I should like to go, too--it's years +since I was at the Zoo. I might make my jacket do; it's my hat I'm +thinking about." + +Mr. Chase, meeting Mr. Teak's eye, winked an obvious suggestion. + +"So, thanking you all the same," continued Mrs. Teak, with amiable +cheerfulness, "I'll stay at 'ome." + +"'Ow-'ow much are they?" growled her husband, scowling at Mr. Chase. + +"All prices," replied his wife. + +"Yes, I know," said Mr. Teak, in a grating voice. "You go in to buy a +hat at one and eleven-pence; you get talked over and flattered by a man +like a barber's block, and you come out with a four-and-six penny one. +The only real difference in hats is the price, but women can never see +it." + +Mrs. Teak smiled faintly, and again expressed her willingness to stay at +home. They could spend the afternoon working in the garden, she said. +Her husband, with another indignant glance at the right eye of Mr. Chase, +which was still enacting the part of a camera-shutter, said that she +could have a hat, but asked her to remember when buying it that nothing +suited her so well as a plain one. + +The remainder of the week passed away slowly; and Mr. Teak, despite his +utmost efforts, was unable to glean any information from Mr. Chase as to +that gentleman's ideas concerning the hiding-place. At every suggestion +Mr. Chase's smile only got broader and more indulgent. + +"You leave it to me," he said. "You leave it to me, and when you come +home from a happy outing I 'ope to be able to cross your little hand with +three 'undred golden quids." + +"But why not tell me?" urged Mr. Teak. + +"'Cos I want to surprise you," was the reply. "But mind, whatever you +do, don't let your wife run away with the idea that I've been mixed up in +it at all. Now, if you worry me any more I shall ask you to make it +thirty pounds for me instead of twenty." + +The two friends parted at the corner of the road on Saturday afternoon, +and Mr. Teak, conscious of his friend's impatience, sought to hurry his +wife by occasionally calling the wrong time up the stairs. She came down +at last, smiling, in a plain hat with three roses, two bows, and a +feather. + +"I've had the feather for years," she remarked. "This is the fourth hat +it has been on--but, then, I've taken care of it." + +Mr. Teak grunted, and, opening the door, ushered her into the street. A +sense of adventure, and the hope of a profitable afternoon made his +spirits rise. He paid a compliment to the hat, and then, to the surprise +of both, followed it up with another--a very little one--to his wife. + +They took a tram at the end of the street, and for the sake of the air +mounted to the top. Mrs. Teak leaned back in her seat with placid +enjoyment, and for the first ten minutes amused herself with the life in +the streets. Then she turned suddenly to her husband and declared that +she had felt a spot of rain. + +"'Magination," he said, shortly. + +Something cold touched him lightly on the eyelid, a tiny pattering +sounded from the seats, and then swish, down came the rain. With an +angry exclamation he sprang up and followed his wife below. + +"Just our luck," she said, mournfully. "Best thing we can do is to stay +in the car and go back with it." + +"Nonsense!" said her husband, in a startled' voice; "it'll be over in a +minute." + +Events proved the contrary. By the time the car reached the terminus it +was coming down heavily. Mrs. Teak settled herself squarely in her seat, +and patches of blue sky, visible only to the eye of faith and her +husband, failed to move her. Even his reckless reference to a cab +failed. + +"It's no good," she said, tartly. "We can't go about the grounds in a +cab, and I'm not going to slop about in the wet to please anybody. We +must go another time. It's hard luck, but there's worse things in life." + +Mr. Teak, wondering as to the operations of Mr. Chase, agreed dumbly. He +stopped the car at the corner of their road, and, holding his head down +against the rain, sprinted towards home. Mrs. Teak, anxious for her hat, +passed him. + +"What on earth's the matter?" she inquired, fumbling in her pocket for +the key as her husband executed a clumsy but noisy breakdown on the front +step. + +"Chill," replied Mr. Teak. "I've got wet." + +He resumed his lumberings and, the door being opened, gave vent to his +relief at being home again in the dry, in a voice that made the windows +rattle. Then with anxious eyes he watched his wife pass upstairs. + +"Wonder what excuse old Alf'll make for being in?" he thought. + +He stood with one foot on the bottom stair, listening acutely. He heard +a door open above, and then a wild, ear-splitting shriek rang through the +house. Instinctively he dashed upstairs and, following his wife into +their bedroom, stood by her side gaping stupidly at a pair of legs +standing on the hearthstone. As he watched they came backwards into the +room, the upper part of a body materialized from the chimney, and turning +round revealed the soot-stained face of Mr. Alfred Chase. Another wild +shriek from Mrs. Teak greeted its appearance. + +"Hul-lo!" exclaimed Mr. Teak, groping for the right thing to say. +"Hul-lo! What--what are you doing, Alf?" + +Mr. Chase blew the soot from his lips. "I--I--I come 'ome unexpected," +he stammered. + +"But--what are--you doing?" panted Mrs. Teak, in a rising voice. + +"I--I was passing your door," said Mr. Chase, "passing your door--to go +to my room to--to 'ave a bit of a rinse, when--" + +"Yes," said Mrs. Teak. + +Mr. Chase gave Mr. Teak a glance the pathos of which even the soot could +not conceal. "When I--I heard a pore little bird struggling in your +chimbley," he continued, with a sigh of relief. "Being fond of animals, +I took the liberty of comin' into your room and saving its life." + +Mr. Teak drew a breath, which he endeavoured in vain to render noiseless. + +"It got its pore little foot caught in the brickwork," continued the +veracious Mr. Chase, tenderly. "I released it, and it flowed--I mean +flew--up the chimbley." + +With the shamefaced air of a man detected in the performance of a noble +action, he passed out of the room. Husband and wife eyed each other. + +"That's Alf--that's Alf all over," said Mr. Teak, with enthusiasm. "He's +been like it from a child. He's the sort of man that 'ud dive off +Waterloo Bridge to save the life of a drownding sparrow." + +"He's made an awful mess," said his wife, frowning; "it'll take me the +rest of the day to clean up. There's soot everywhere. The rug is quite +spoilt." + +She took off her hat and jacket and prepared for the fray. Down below +Messrs. Teak and Chase, comparing notes, sought, with much warmth, to +put the blame on the right shoulders. + +"Well, it ain't there," said Mr. Chase, finally. "I've made sure of +that. That's something towards it. I shan't 'ave to look there again, +thank goodness." + +Mr. Teak sniffed. "Got any more ideas?" he queried. + +"I have," said the other sternly. "There's plenty of places to search +yet. I've only just begun. Get her out as much as you can and I'll 'ave +my hands on it afore you can say--" + +"Soot?" suggested Mr. Teak, sourly. + +"Any more of your nasty snacks and I chuck it up altogether," said Mr. +Chase, heatedly. "If I wasn't hard up I'd drop it now." + +He went up to his room in dudgeon, and for the next few days Mr. Teak saw +but little of him. To, lure Mrs. Teak out was almost as difficult as to +persuade a snail to leave its shell, but he succeeded on two or three +occasions, and each time she added something to her wardrobe. + +The assistant fortune-hunter had been in residence just a month when Mr. +Teak, returning home one afternoon, stood in the small passage listening +to a suppressed wailing noise proceeding from upstairs. It was so creepy +that half-way up he hesitated, and, in a stern but trembling voice, +demanded to know what his wife meant by it. A louder wail than before +was the only reply, and, summoning up his courage, he pushed open the +door of the bedroom and peeped in. His gaze fell on Mrs. Teak, who was +sitting on the hearth-rug, rocking to and fro in front of a dismantled +fire-place. + +"What--what's the matter?" he said, hastily. + +Mrs. Teak raised her voice to a pitch that set his teeth on edge. "My +money!" she wailed. "It's all gone! All gone!" + +"Money?" repeated Mr. Teak, hardly able to contain himself. "What +money?" + +"All--all my savings!" moaned his wife. "Savings!" said the delighted +Mr. Teak. "What savings?" + +"Money I have been putting by for our old age," said his wife. "Three +hundred and twenty-two pounds. All gone!" + +In a fit of sudden generosity Mr. Teak decided then and there that Mr. +Chase should have the odd twenty-two pounds. + +"You're dreaming!" he said, sternly. + +"I wish I was," said his wife, wiping her eyes. "Three hundred and +twenty-two pounds in empty mustard-tins. Every ha'penny's gone!" + +Mr. Teak's eye fell on the stove. He stepped for ward and examined it. +The back was out, and Mrs. Teak, calling his attention to a tunnel at the +side, implored him to put his arm in and satisfy himself that it was +empty. + +"But where could you get all that money from?" he demanded, after a +prolonged groping. + +"Sa--sa--saved it," sobbed his wife, "for our old age." + +"Our old age?" repeated Mr. Teak, in lofty tones. "And suppose I had +died first? Or suppose you had died sudden? This is what comes of +deceitfulness and keeping things from your husband. Now somebody has +stole it." + +Mrs. Teak bent her head and sobbed again. "I--I had just been out for +--for an hour," she gasped. "When I came back I fou--fou--found the +washhouse window smashed, and--" + +Sobs choked her utterance. Mr. Teak, lost in admiration of Mr. Chase's +cleverness, stood regarding her in silence. + +"What--what about the police?" said his wife at last. + +"Police!" repeated Mr. Teak, with extraordinary vehemence. "Police! +Certainly not. D'ye think I'm going to let it be known all round that +I'm the husband of a miser? I'd sooner lose ten times the money." + +He stalked solemnly out of the room and downstairs, and, safe in the +parlour, gave vent to his feelings in a wild but silent hornpipe. He +cannoned against the table at last, and, subsiding into an easy-chair, +crammed his handkerchief to his mouth and gave way to suppressed mirth. + +In his excitement he forgot all about tea, and the bereaved Mrs. Teak +made no attempt to come downstairs to prepare it. With his eye on the +clock he waited with what patience he might for the arrival of Mr. Chase. +The usual hour for his return came and went. Another hour passed; and +another. A horrible idea that Mr. Chase had been robbed gave way to one +more horrible still. He paced the room in dismay, until at nine o'clock +his wife came down, and in a languid fashion began to set the +supper-table. + +"Alf's very late," said Mr. Teak, thickly. + +"Is he?" said his wife, dully. + +"Very late," said Mr. Teak. "I can't think--Ah, there he is!" + +He took a deep breath and clenched 'his hands together. By the time Mr. +Chase came into the room he was able to greet him with a stealthy wink. +Mr. Chase, with a humorous twist of his mouth, winked back. + +"We've 'ad a upset," said Mr. Teak, in warning tones. + +"Eh?" said the other, as Mrs. Teak threw her apron over her head and sank +into a chair. "What about?" + +In bated accents, interrupted at times by broken murmurs from his wife, +Mr. Teak informed him of the robbery. Mr. Chase, leaning against the +doorpost, listened with open mouth and distended eyeballs. Occasional +interjections of pity and surprise attested his interest. The tale +finished, the gentlemen exchanged a significant wink and sighed in +unison. + +"And now," said Mr. Teak an hour later, after his wife had retired, +"where is it?" + +"Ah, that's the question," said Mr. Chase, roguishly. "I wonder where it +can be?" + +"I--I hope it's in a safe place," said Mr. Teak, anxiously. "Where 'ave +you put it?" + +"Me?" said Mr. Chase. "Who are you getting at? I ain't put it +anywhere. You know that." + +"Don't play the giddy goat," said the other, testily. "Where've you hid +it? Is it safe?" + +Mr. Chase leaned back in his chair and, shaking his head at him, smiled +approvingly. "You're a little wonder, that's what you are, Gussie," he +remarked. "No wonder your pore wife is took in so easy." + +Mr. Teak sprang up in a fury. "Don't play the fool," he said hoarsely. +"Where's the money? I want it. Now, where've you put it?" + +"Go on," said Mr. Chase, with a chuckle. "Go on. Don't mind me. You +ought to be on the stage, Gussie, that's where you ought to be." + +"I'm not joking," said Mr. Teak, in a trembling voice, "and I don't want +you to joke with me. If you think you are going off with my money, +you're mistook. If you don't tell me in two minutes where it is, I shall +give you in charge for theft." + +"Oh" said Mr. Chase. He took a deep breath. "Oh, really!" he said. "I +wouldn't 'ave thought it of you, Gussie. I wouldn't 'ave thought you'd +have played it so low down. I'm surprised at you." + +"You thought wrong, then," said the other. + +"Trying to do me out o' my twenty pounds, that's what you are," said Mr. +Chase, knitting his brows. "But it won't do, my boy. I wasn't born +yesterday. Hand it over, afore I lose my temper. Twenty pounds I want +of you, and I don't leave this room till I get it." + +Speechless with fury, Mr. Teak struck at him. The next moment the +supper-table was overturned with a crash, and Mr. Chase, with his friend +in his powerful grasp, was doing his best, as he expressed it, to shake +the life out of him. A faint scream sounded from above, steps pattered +on the stairs, and Mrs. Teak, with a red shawl round her shoulders, burst +'hurriedly into the room. Mr. Chase released Mr. Teak, opened his mouth +to speak, and then, thinking better of it, dashed into the passage, took +his hat from the peg, and, slamming the front door with extraordinary +violence, departed. + +He sent round for his clothes next day, but he did not see Mr. Teak until +a month afterwards. His fists clenched and his mouth hardened, but Mr. +Teak, with a pathetic smile, held out his hand, and Mr. Chase, after a +moment's hesitation, took it. Mr. Teak, still holding his friend's hand, +piloted him to a neighbouring hostelry. + +"It was my mistake, Alf," he said, shaking his head, "but it wasn't my +fault. It's a mistake anybody might ha' made." + +"Have you found out who took it?" inquired Mr. Chase, regarding him +suspiciously. + +Mr. Teak gulped and nodded. "I met Bert Adams yesterday," he said, +slowly. "It took three pints afore he told me, but I got it out of 'im +at last. My missis took it herself." + +Mr. Chase put his mug down with a bang. "What?" he gasped. + +"The day after she found you with your head up the chimbley," added Mr. +Teak, mournfully. "She's shoved it away in some bank now, and I shall +never see a ha'penny of it. If you was a married man, Alf, you'd +understand it better. You wouldn't be surprised at anything." + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Fairy Gold, by W.W. 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