“But if you die?” said David.
“Well, what if I do? we have all to come to that some day, sooner or later.”
“Are you prepared to die?” asked Trevarrow earnestly.
“Now, David, don’t ’ee trouble me with that. ’Tis all very well for the women an’ child’n, but it don’t suit me, it don’t, so lev us have no more of it, booy. I’ll do it to-morrow, that’s fixed, so now we’ll have a bit supper.”
The tone in which Maggot said this assured David that further conversation would be useless, so he dropped the subject and sat down with the rest of the family to their evening meal.
Chapter Ten.
Shows how Maggot made a Desperate Venture, and what Flowed from it.
“A wilful man must have his way” is a proverb the truth of which was illustrated by the blacksmith on the following day.