158/249 Wait a bit; I haven't done yet. If you tell me everything you can remember--mind _ everything_--I'll pay the rest of your wages." Madly excited by this golden prospect, the victim of domestic service answered inarticulately with a scream. Jackling's right hand and left hand entered his pockets, and appeared again holding two sovereigns separately between two fingers and thumbs. From that moment, he was at liberty to empty the maid-of-all-work's memory of every saying and doing that it contained. The report of her drunken moments produced something worth hearing. |