13/18 He's as true to me as my own shadow. If you want proof of it, Mr.Cleek, he's going to sit in the stable and keep guard himself to-night--in the face of what happened to Murple and Tolliver." "Murple is the groom who was paralysed, is he not ?" said Cleek, after a moment. What paralysed him, do you think ?" "Heaven knows. He might just as well have been killed as poor Tolliver was, for he'll never be any use again, the doctors say. |