6/17 He was a man to whom Bean in an ordinary way would have been civil,--civil in a cold guarded way; but how was he to be civil to anybody who addressed him as Goarly? "As Goarly lives near here I thought you might be Goarly. When I saw Goarly he had a gun, and you have a gun. Can you tell me where Goarly lives ?" "Tother side of the wood," said Bean pointing back with his thumb. I can go through the wood I guess;" for Bean had pointed exactly over the gateway. |