The things we do!

Well, perhaps I had been wrong.
I thought and thought. After all, I had been a good workman, as far as I
knew, and I had never stolen a moment of the Captain's time for work on my
own invention....
I fell asleep again, and wakened at the sound of footsteps on the stairs.
Before I had time to get properly to my feet, there was the Captain
himself in the doorway.
"Don't get up," he said kindly, and turned as if to go again. "Still,
seeing you're awake, we might settle up. What do you say?"
I said it was as he pleased, and many thanks.
"I ought to tell you, though, both your friend and I thought you were
going to take service at the vicarage, and so.... And now the weather's
broken up, there's no doing more among the timber--and, besides, we've got
down all there was to come. Well, now; I've settled with the other man. I
don't know if you'd...."
I said I would be quite content with the same.
"H'm! Your friend and I agreed you ought to have more per day."
Falkenberg had said no word of this to me; it sounded like the Captain's
own idea.


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