He'll see that there's work for you.

Toddle along now and get a meal and a bed.

And mind you keep a close mouth about this." The boy neither moved nor spoke nor made any sound.

For a moment or two he stood looking from the man to the coins and from the coins back to the man; then, gradually, the truth of the thing seemed to trickle into his mind and, as a hungry fox might pounce upon a stray fowl, he grabbed the money and--bolted.
"Remember the name and remember the street," Cleek called after him.
"You take your bloomin' oath I will!" came back through the enfolding mist; "Gawd, yuss!"-- Just that; and the youth was gone.
"I wonder what you will think of me, Miss Lorne," said Cleek, turning to her; "taking a chance like this; and, above all, with a fellow who would have stripped you of every jewel and every penny you have with you if things hadn't happened as they have ?" "And I can very ill afford to lose anything _now_--as I suppose you know, Mr.Cleek.Things have changed sadly for me since that day Mr.
Narkom introduced us at Ascot," she said, with just a shadow of seriousness in her eyes.

"But as to what I think regarding your action toward that dreadful boy....