And when he had seen Gentleman Waife act, he sent for him to the inn--Red Lion--and offered him a power o' money to go to Lunnon,--Common Garden.

Well, sir, Waife did not take to it all at once, but hemmed and hawed, and was at last quite coaxed into it, and so he went.

But bad luck came on it; and I knew there would, for I saw it all in my crystal." "Oh," exclaimed Vance, "a crystal, too; really it is getting late, and if you had your crystal about you, you might see that we want to sup." "What happened ?" asked Lionel, more blandly, for he saw the Cobbler, who had meant to make a great effect by the introduction of the crystal, was offended.
"What happened?
why, just what I foreseed.

There was an accident in the railway 'tween this and Lunnon, and poor Waife lost an eye, and was a cripple for life: so he could not go on the Lunnon stage at all; and what was worse, he was a long time atwixt life and death, and got summat bad on his chest wi' catching cold, and lost his voice, and became the sad object you have gazed on, young happy things that ye are." "But he got some compensation from the railway, I suppose ?" said Vance, with the unfeeling equanimity of a stoical demon.
"He did, and spent it.

I suppose the gentleman broke out in him as soon as he had money, and, ill though he was, the money went.