“Yes; what’s the matter, Sam?”
“You’ll know quite soon enough, sir. Come on up to the mine. Harry Vores has just gone back there. It was him brought me the news.”
Chapter Thirty Nine.
Grip’s Bad Luck.
“Why don’t you speak?” cried Gwyn, angrily. “Has there been an accident? Surely father hasn’t gone down!”
“Oh, the Colonel’s all right, sir,” said Hardock, genially. “The gov’nor hasn’t gone and lost himself.”
“But there has been an accident, Sam,” cried Joe.
“Nor the Major aren’t gone down neither, sir,” said the man. “Here, let me carry that fish basket. Didn’t remember me with a couple o’ mullet, did you?”