To the West, sombre hills rose against the jewelled vault2 where the stars in the depths of the frosty sky kept watch over the slumbering3 earth. Half-way over the downs, beneath the roots of a stunted4 pine, was a fox-earth. The old man knelt down and stopped it with faggots of furze. The light of the lantern lit up his strong and kindly5 face, and fell on the heap of sandy soil at the mouth of the earth.
Leaving the downs he turned towards Penhale, skirting the marshy6 ground in the trough of the hills, and climbing a steep rise made for a crag—playground of many litters—beneath which lay the next earth. Furze bushes screened the entrance and hung like a pall8 on the slope. The wind wuthered round the rocks and stirred the rushes in the fen9 below; but the Earthstopper gave no heed10 to these whisperings of the night, and paused but for an instant, as he bent11 over his work, to listen to the bark of a fox in the pitchy darkness beyond. His way now lay across a bleak12 waste. Rude monuments of a grey past dot its surface and a solitary13 cottage overlooks its desolation. No path led along the line he was taking: cromlech and monolith in ghostly outline guided his steps.
The Earthstopper’s progress was slow, for the surface was rough and the bogs14 treacherous15, but yet he was getting nearer and nearer to Cairn Galver, which rose like a cliff from the moor16, its crest17 silhouetted18 against the deep sapphire19 of the heavens.
“Good God, what’s thet?” said he, as a fiendish scream awoke the echoes of the rugged20 hills. “Don’t sound like et, but et must a’ come from thet cottage over theere. Iss sure, theere’s a light in the winder. Semmen to me ’tes uncommon21 like murder.”
He had taken but a few stumbling steps along a track into which he had turned, ere the faint thud of hoofs22 fell on his ear. More and more distinct through the night came the sound, broken at times by a shout. A rocky hollow lay in front of him; down which rider and horse came at a furious pace, splashing the water as they dashed through the stream below. Breasting the rise at the same frantic23 speed they were over the brow and almost upon the Earthstopper before he was aware, and scarcely had he jumped aside when they galloped24 past him.
Merest glimpse though he got of the man, he recognised him, for his face was turned towards the light as it lay over the horse’s neck. It was Jago the miner.
“Good Lor’, what’s the maanin’ of et? Why don’t eh stop the hoss?”
“Don’t take me for a Jack-o-Lantern, s’pose?”
Some distance along the stony26 track the clatter27 of the hoofs ceased. The Earthstopper ran towards the spot.
“Where are ee, why don’t ee spaake?”
“Heere, An’rew, quick as you can.”
A minute later the Earthstopper, with one hand resting on the mane of the heaving horse, was looking up at the miner’s blanched28 face.
“What’s the matter wi’ ee, Jago? you looked skeared.”
“Steve es killed by a faal o’ ground. We brought un hoam an hour agone. Et wor moore nor Mawther could stand. Her rason’s clane gone.”
“Can I help ee?”
“No thank ee, An’rew.”
In breathless haste he spoke29, and with a shout he was gone, his path picked out in sparks, as the good horse without bridle30 or rein31 covered the ground to the slumbering village.
Andrew stood peering through the night till the tiny fires died away and the beat of the hoofs struck faint as the footfall of a child.
This incident had unnerved the lonely Earthstopper.
More than once as he ascended33 the Galver he turned his head, though without staying his steps, to see that it was but the terrier that followed him. Panting from the hurried climb he rested on a boulder34 of the cairn and set the lantern down on the turf at his feet. The bitch nestled between her master and the flickering35 flame.
The stars shone in all their splendour, but it was the glow-worm light that crept through the gloom below which riveted36 the Earthstopper’s gaze.
“Well, Vennie me beety, theere’s death and worse nor death in thet theere cottage, and et’s shook me tar’ble, but our night’s work must be got through somehow or theer’ll be no spoart to-day. With this wind a fox es moast sure to make for Zonnor Cliffs.
“Come, me dear, ’tes cold up heere, two mile waan’t see us to cliff, and thee must furst run through the radgell on the Little Galver.”
So, taking up the lantern, he went to the clitter of rocks and sent the bitch in. He could follow her by the patter of her feet as she ran through the cavernous hollows. On coming out at the far end of the rocks she awaited her master and, when he came up, took her place at his heels. Before leaving the high ground the Earthstopper stood listening for a few moments with his face towards Madron, whither Jago had ridden to summon the doctor. Hearing nothing, he made his way down the slope of the cairn to the rugged waste that stretches away to the Northern coast.
Their work was now done till they reached the cliffs. He seldom spoke to his dog in going from one earth to another, and to-night he had enough to think about.
Thirty years of wandering under the stars had matured the philosopher within him.
“Mine’s a wisht kind of a life, mine es; but so long as health and strength do laast ’tes grand to traapse the moors38 and circumvent39 the varmints. I know evra inch o’ thes eere country, evra patch o’ fuzze, and evra pile o’ rocks, and the stars be moore to me nor to moast folks. The eearth es beetiful, ’tes a pity to laave et, and when we do wheere do we go to? The ways o’ the birds, the enstincts of evra wild crittur, the min’rals I’ve blasted in the bal under the saa, the dimants up theere, tell me plain enuf theere’s a Maister-hand behind et all. All of ee say theere’s a God, but why are ee quiate as the grave about the Better Land?”
The distant stars glittered in the silent vault, the wind was heedless as the moor it swept, and there was no answer in the far-off mystic murmur40 of the sea.
His sinewy41 strides soon brought him to the edge of the cliff. Two hundred feet below, the Atlantic lashed42 the rocks and raged in the caverns43.
“Well, auld44 Ocean, I can hear ee ef I caan’t see ee. Hope theest heaved up no dead thes tide. Lor’, how the gools do scraame, to be sure! but ’tes moosic and ’tes company to thet scraach on the moor”; and he shuddered45 at the thought. Half trusting to the tussocks of coarse grass but with muscles all alert he clambered down the steep zigzag46 his own feet had traced, towards the adit of Wheal Stanny situate near the line of the foam47. Shrinking from the seething48 waters below he crept along a narrow ledge49 and with scanty50 foothold reached the mouth of the adit, where he brushed the sweat and salt spray from his face.
Then on hands and knees, his finger-marks effacing51 the footprints of marauding fox, he entered the narrowing chasm52 and stopped the hole as best he could, with pieces of quartz53.
Drippings from the moist roof—retreat of trembling fern—blurred the lantern’s light and dimmed the sparkle of the crystals.
Leaving the cliffs he made for the uplands, for a few earths lay in the gullies that seamed them, and here and there a disused mine-work offered a safe retreat to fox and badger54. Carefully the Earthstopper picked his way in the murky55 hollows, the lantern’s light awaking the frown of the granite56 and falling bright on the gold of the bracken that fringed the treacherous shaft57. On the weird58 countryside above, the array of boulders59 loomed60 like phantoms61 in the sombre heather.
Threading in and out among them as he rose and sank with the undulating surface, the Earthstopper might have been a spy stealing from camp to camp of spectral62 hosts bivouacking on the dusky slopes.
On the furthest ridge63 he stood peering into the darkness that shrouded64 a moor over which he must pass. The level expanse might have seemed to invite him as smooth water invites a swimmer wearied by the waves, but superstitious65 fear held him there irresolute66. For an eerie67 legend clung to the heart of the moor. Crofters would draw closely round their bright furze-fires as they listened to the harrowing tale. Little wonder that the old man paused in his forward path, for the last earth on his round was near a cairn that partly screened a haunted pool, and the moor compassed it round.
Seeing a light—it was a mere25 glimmer—in a lone32 homestead on the low ground between him and the cliff, he resolved to make his way down to it and await the dawn. With difficulty, for the hillside was covered with furze, he reached the byre where a candle burned on the ledge inside a small window. Peeping through a cob-webbed pane68, he was able to recognise the farmhand at work inside, though the man’s back was turned towards him.
Unfortunately for the labourer, the noise made by the turnip-chopper he was working drowned the sound of the approaching footsteps, and Andrew’s voice at the half-open door was the first intimation he had of the Earthstopper’s presence.
“Mornin’, ’Gellas.”
“Lor’, you ded maake me joomp, An’rew. . . . Wisht news about Steve Jago, edna?”
“Bra’ an wisht. I do hear the poor auld woman’s gone clane out of her mind. ’Tes foolish like, but her scraachin’s thet unnarved me, I’m moast afeered to go and stop thet theere eearth touchin’ Deadman.”
“Laave un be, noathin’ eearthly waan’t go anighst un for thes day. A sinkin’ fox would raither die in th’ open nor maake for un. They do say when any man or woman o’ thes heere parish, and ’tes a bra’ big wan37 too, do die a vilent death like as ’ow” . . .
Andrew’s upraised palm had checked him.
“Then thee dost know all ’bout un?”
“Iss, iss, worse luck, I’ve heerd about the wisht auld thing.”
“Look here, An’rew,” said Tregellas under his breath as he drew close to him, “I don’t knaw how fur may be fancy like, for I’d bin7 thinkin’ ’bout un, but semmen to me I heerd a scraach from thet quarter about an hour agone and theere—theere edn any housen to moore nor a mile” . . .
Andrew had heard more than enough and, before Tregellas could add another word, he hurried through the open doorway69, crossed the brook70 that ran through the mowhay, and was soon breasting the rugged hill leading to the Deadman.
On the edge of the moor he paused to listen. From out the distance came the cry of some bird: the sea called faintly behind him. He looked towards the East. There was no sign of dawn.
“I’ll faace un, come what may. Be quiate, stop thet theere whinin’ will ee.”
Then he trimmed the wick of the lantern, pulled his cap well on to his ears and, stepping from tuft to tuft of the silent heather, set out across the moor. He made straight for the cairn and with trembling hands stopped the earth; but though he heard the wind sighing in the reeds he feared to turn his eyes towards the tarn71.
Hurrying from the eerie spot he set out on his way homewards, staying his steps a moment near a pool to look at the clean-cut footprints of a fox. Water was oozing72 into them, for the ground was very marshy. And so he came to the gaunt ruin of Ding Dong Mine which serves as a mark to the long-line fishermen of Mount’s Bay. Only the walls and end timbers of the lofty roof are left for the gales73 to whistle through; and in the grey dawn a kestrel perched on the gable was preening74 its feathers. From the mine-burrows hard by, the wayfarer75 overlooks headland and harbour, the surf round St Michael’s base and the waters of the sail-flecked bay.
Well might the Earthstopper, whose soul, like that of many a toiler76, was far above his lowly work, dwell on the awakening77 beauty of land and sea below him.
The stars had paled their fires and crimson78 streaks79 in the throbbing80 east heralded81 the sun. Lighting82 first the hungry Manacles the gladdening orb83 rose over the serpentine84 cliffs of Lizard85, bathing with its rays the sea and circling hills, and touching86 with gold the battlements of the castle and the pinnacles87 of the westward88 churches.
“No wonder thet furriners do bow their knees on desert sands and wusshup ee. Don’t knaw when I’ve seed ee lookin’ so beetiful missel.” The hawk89, now hovering90 over its prey91, disturbed his simple reverie. “Come, me dear”—but Vennie had slipped away—“?’tes nigh breakfust time, and the cheeld will be ’spectin’ us.” So down the hill he hurried, the smoke from his own hearth92 cheering him and turning his thoughts to his peaceful home. He pictured the little room neat and clean, the breakfast-table with his chair drawn93 up to it, the sanded floor and the kettle on the brandis amidst the glowing embers. He forgot his fatigue94; his steps were lightened as he thought of the child who looked after his few comforts and always welcomed his home-coming. At a turn in the track by some stormbent hawthorns95 he came suddenly upon her, come out to meet him. What a change comes over the old man’s face at the sight of her! How his eyes brighten as she runs to greet him!
“I knawed thee couldna be fur away, granfer, for Vennie’s been home these ten minits or moore.”
He looked behind him, but the bitch was gone.
“Ah, I can guess what’s drawed her theere.”
The girl took the lantern from his cramped96 hand and, side by side, her arm linked with his, they made their way towards the cottage. Two minutes later the clatter of hoofs behind them made her look round. “Someone’s comin’ down the Forest Cairn, granfer.”
“Iss, me dear, ’tes Dobbin’s step thee canst hear. Now run home along whilst I have a word with the doctor.”
The Earthstopper on Trengwainton Cairn. [Face page 12.
The girl was barely a stone’s throw away when the doctor cantered up to where the Earthstopper awaited him.
“Mornin’, Andrew, another touch of rheumatism97?”
“No, sir, never felt better in my life; no, tedn thet: I wanted to ask ee about Mrs Jago.”
“You’ve heard about it?”
The Earthstopper nodded assent98.
“It’s all over with the poor woman, Andrew.”
. . . “May be ’tes best so, sir.”
“Yes, best so,” repeated the doctor, as he rode away.
Andrew overtook his grandchild near the cottage, and was following her through the open door, getting a glimpse of Vennie and her puppies on the badger skin before the turf fire, when the bells rang out a joyous99 peal100 as if to remind him of the festive101 day. He turned and listened: the grey tower rose above the patched roofs of the cottages, the notes struck clear through the crisp air.
A smile rose to the weather-beaten face, the lips moved, and cheerily came the words:
“Ring out your best, auld bells, for ’tes Maddern Feasten Monday.”
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