"And ask him to forgive his brother. I'm sorry I said the things I did," declared Humphrey Baskerville.
A pony cart drove up at this moment and Eliza Gollop alighted from it.
She carried a large brown-paper parcel, and a corded box was lifted out after her.
"I've come," she said. "Doctor left a message for me as he went back along, and I was ready as usual. How's the poor man going on? I'm afraid you must not be very hopeful—so doctor said on his way back; but where there's life and me there's always hope, as my brother Thomas will have it."
Humphrey and his nephew walked slowly away together. At the confines of the farmyard Rupert turned out of the road a little and pointed upwards to a window that faced the east. A white blind was drawn down over it.
"That's father's room," he said.
CHAPTER XVIII
Jack Head entered the bar of 'The White Thorn,' and was glad to find Nathan Baskerville at home.
"I don't want to drink, I want to talk," he said.