Probably you will wait on him ?" "Next week.

I was near waiting on him after another fashion," Claude continued rather grimly.

"Between him and your friend there," with a glance at Grio, who had relapsed into a moody glaring silence, "I was like to get more gyves than justice." The big man laughed.

"Our friend here has served the State," he remarked, "and does what another may not.

Come, Messer Grio," he continued, clapping him on the shoulder, as he rose from his seat.