I left them arranging their affairs, and went into another room to attend to some of my own, and after a while my mother came there to me.

"I've let him the rooms, Hugh," she said, with a note of satisfaction in her voice which told me that the big man was going to pay well for them.

"He's a great bear of a man to look at," she went on, "but he seems quiet and civil-spoken.

And here's a ticket for a chest of his that he's left up at the railway station, and as he's tired, maybe you'll get somebody yourself to fetch it down for him ?" I went out to a man who lived close by and had a light cart, and sent him up to the station with the ticket for the chest; he was back with it before long, and I had to help him carry it up to Mr.Gilverthwaite's room.

And never had I felt or seen a chest like that before, nor had the man who had fetched it, either.