15/21 That'll do, 'Dolph; go an' lie down." "He's a clever dog, and I beg his pardon for kicking him," said Mr. Why, 'twas 'Dolph that got us out." "What, from the Orph'nage ?" "Yes." Tilda described how the Doctor had shut her in his drawing-room, how she had escaped to the garden and found the boy there, and how 'Dolph had discovered the coal-shaft for them. "An' then Mr.Bossom 'e 'elped us out an' put us across the canal. That's all the 'and '_e_ took in it. An' from the canal I 'urried Arthur Miles up to the Good Samaritan; but when we got there his mother was dead--becos o' course she must a-been his mother. |