The things we do!

"
"Take me," I said. "Wait for me here, while I go up and settle at the
house."
Half-way up I heard Grindhusen calling again:
"I can't wait here all night. And I don't believe you meant it, anyway."
"Wait just a minute. I'll be down again directly."
And Grindhusen sets himself down on the beach to wait. He knows I've some
of that first-rate _Brandevin_ still left.


IV

We came to the vicarage on a Saturday. After much doubting, Grindhusen had
at last agreed to take me as his mate. I had bought provisions and some
working clothes, and stood there now, in blouse and high boots, ready to
start work. I was free and unknown; I learned to walk with a long,
slouching stride, and for the look of a laboring man, I had that already
both in face and hands. We were to put up at the vicarage itself, and cook
our food in the brew-house across the yard.
And so we started on our digging.
I did my share of the work, and Grindhusen had no fault to find with me as
a work-mate.


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