Dora and May walked out together regularly, a practice enforced by their father as a provision for their health. To have Tray to form a third person in their somewhat formal promenades1 certainly robbed them of their formality, and introduced such an element of lively excitement into them as to bear out Dora's comparison of their progresses thenceforth to a succession of fox-hunts. For Tray was still in the later stages of his puppyhood. He was frequently inspired by a demon3 of mischief4 or haunted by a variety of vagabond instincts which such training as he had received, without the support of prolonged discipline and practical experience, failed to extinguish.
May was very particular about his education in theory, but in practice she fell considerably5 short of her excellent intentions. She always carried a whip with a whistle in the handle; and the sight of the instrument of punishment ought to have
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been enough for Tray, since there was no farther application of it. In reality, the sharp-sighted little animal no more obeyed the veritable whistle than he winced6 under the supposititious lash7 of the whip. He took his own way and did very much what he liked in spite of the animated8 protests of his mistress. Dora and May went out walking with Tray instead of Tray going on a walk with them, and not infrequently the walk degenerated9 into an agitated10 scamper11 at his heels. The scamper was diversified12 by a number of ineffectual attempts to reclaim13 him from forcing his way into back-yards and returning triumphantly14 with a bone or a crust between his teeth, "as if we starved him, as if his dish at home was not generally half full, though we've tried so hard to find out what he likes," said May plaintively15. If otherwise engaged it would be in chasing cats, running down fowls16, barking at message boys—to whom he had the greatest antipathy—or, most serious foible of all, threatening to engage in single combat with dogs twice his size and three times his age.
There is no accounting17 for tastes, seeing that these tumultuous walks were the delight of May's days, and that even Dora, with her inveterate18 sympathy, enjoyed them, though they deranged19 somewhat her sense of maidenly20 dignity and decorum. It was to be hoped that as Tray grew in
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years he would grow in discretion21, and would show a little forbearance to the friends who were so forbearing to him.
Tray, Dora, and May had gone on their customary expedition. The human beings of the party were inclined to direct their steps as quickly as possible to one of the country roads. Tray's eccentricities22 at the present stage of his development were hardly calculated for the comfortable traversing of a succession of streets and lanes. But the canine23 leader of the party decided24 for the main street, and Dora and May gave up their own inclinations25, and followed in his erratic26 track with their wonted cheerful submission28.
It was a fine October afternoon, when Redcross was looking its best. It was rather a dull town, with little trade and few manufactories, but its worst enemy could not deny it the corresponding virtues29 of cleanliness and freedom from smoke. Here and there there was a grand old tree wedged between the houses. In one or two instances, where the under part of the house was brick, and the upper—an afterthought—was a projecting storey of wood, the latter was built round the tree, with its branches sheltering the roof in a picturesque30, half foreign fashion. Here and there were massive old houses and shops, with some approach to the size and the substantial—even costly31
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—fittings of "Robinson's." A side street led down to a little sluggish33 canal which joined the Dewes, a river of considerable size on which Redcross had originally been built. This canal was crossed by a short solid stone bridge, bearing a quaint34 enough bridge-house, still used as a dwelling-place.
The sun was bright and warm without any oppressive heat. The leaves, where leaves were to be seen, had yellow, russet, and red streaks35 and stains, suggestive of brown nuts and scarlet36 berries in the hedges.
The flowers in the many window-boxes in which Redcross indulged were still, for the most part, gay with the deeper tints37 of autumn, the purple of asters and the orange of chrysanthemums38 setting off the geraniums blossoming on till the frost shrivelled them, and the seeded green and straw-coloured spikes39 of the still fragrant40 mignonette.
It was market-day, which gave but a slight agreeable stir to the drowsy41 town. The ruddy faces and burly figures of farmers, whose imposing43 bulk somehow did not decrease in keeping with the attenuated44 profits of long-continued agricultural depression, were prominent on the pavement. Little market carts, which closely shawled and bonneted45 elderly women, laden46 with their market baskets, still found themselves disengaged enough to drive, rattled47 over the cobble stones. An occasional
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farm labourer in a well-nigh exploded smock frock, who had come in with a bullock or two, or a small flock of sheep, to the slaughter-house, trudging48 home with a straw between his teeth, and his faithful collie at his heels, made a variety in the town population.
The latter consisted, at this hour, of shop boys and girls, boys from the grammar school, a file of boarders from Miss Burridge's, who walked as if "eyes right" and "eyes left" were the only motion permitted to them, notwithstanding May's frantic50 signs to them to behold51 and admire Tray's gambols52; a professional man, or a tradesman, leisurely53 doing a business errand; one or two ladies carrying the latest fashion in card-cases, suggestive of afternoon calls.
Tray's devious54 path took him in the direction of "Robinson's," in the windows of which the golden brown of sable55 furs, the silver gray of rare foxes', and the commoner dim blue of long-haired goats', were beginning to enrich the usual display of silk and woollen goods.
Following his own sweet will, Tray, considerably in advance of his companions, darted56 into the shop.
"Oh, what shall we do, May?" cried Dora in dismay; "you ought really to put that dog in a leash57 when he will go into the town."
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"Better say a chain at once," answered May indignantly, vexed58 by the imputation59 on her pet. "I am sure he has been as good as gold to-day. He has not chased a single thing, and he has only once run away from us. Couldn't I go in and fetch him out? I should not stay above a minute."
"And I am to wait at the door while you hunt him round all the counters and through the showrooms? I had much rather go in with you; but neither do I care to enter the shop when I do not wish to buy anything. Really Tray is too troublesome!"
"Oh! don't say that," exclaimed May in distress60. "Don't reflect on him in case anything should happen to him," as if Dora's speech were likely to bring down the vengeance61 of Heaven on the heads of all three. "He soon finds out all he wants when he goes on private expeditions, and then he runs back and looks for us. I think if we walked very slowly his dear bright face, with one ear cocked up, would appear in the doorway62 by the time we reached it."
"Or some shop-lad may ask him what his business is, and turn him out. It will be a lesson for him in future," said Dora, severely63.
Accordingly the sisters had to slacken their steps to a snail's pace as they approached the great shop. They had a full view of the interior,
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though it was a little dark, unless to the most modern taste. There was an air of old-fashioned substantiality, comfort, and something like modest dignity about the long-lasting, glossy64 brown roof and walls, in harmony with the heavy counters and shelves, not too heavy for the bales of every description, which with the contents of the innumerable boxes had an established reputation of being "all of the best quality," not figuratively but literally65. The famous oak staircase, with the broad shallow steps and the twisted balustrade, which would not have disgraced a manor66 house, ran up right in the centre and terminated in a gallery—like a musician's gallery—hung with Turkey carpets, Moorish67 rugs, and "muslin from the Indies," and from the gallery various work and show rooms opened. It was evident that "Robinson's" was considerably older than the lifetime of the first Robinson—the silk-weaver and wool-stapler who had used it as a mart for his wares68. Though it was only the product of a country town, it bore a resemblance to old London city places of business. These were wont27 to have a Dutch atmosphere of industry and sobriety, together with a fair share of the learning and refinement69 of the times hanging about them, so that their masters figured as honoured and influential70 citizens of the metropolis71. Belonging to the cate
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gory72 were the linen73 shop of a certain Alexander Pope's father, and the law-stationer's shop, from which issued, in his day, a beautiful youth known as "Master John Milton."
There was the customary bustle74 of a market day at "Robinson's." Miss Franklin was moving about in the women's department, seeing that everybody there was served, and giving an occasional direction to the women who served. She was, as Dora Millar had once described her, as "fat as a pin-cushion," with what had been originally a fair pink-and-white complexion75, degenerated into the mottled "red all over," into which such complexions76 occasionally pass in middle life. But she looked like a lady by many small traits—by her quiet, easy movements; by the clear enunciation77 and pleasant tones, which could be ringing when necessary, of a cultivated voice that reached the ears of the bystanders. She did not wear the conventional black silk or cashmere of a shop-woman. There might be a lingering protest or a lurking78 vanity in the myrtle-green gown and the little lace cap, with its tiny nœuds of dark green riband, which she wore instead. One might guess by their dainty decorum and becomingness that Miss Franklin had thought a good deal, and to purpose, about dress, in her day—had made a study of it, and taken pleasure in its finer effects. In that light she was the right woman in
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the right place—presiding over the shop-women in a linen-draper's shop. At the same time she belonged as clearly to the upper middle class as did the two girls advancing towards the shop, who, in place of being studiously well and handsomely dressed, were just a little shabby, and careless how they looked in their last year's gray velveteens, with hats to match, which Dora in her conscientious79 economy had re-trimmed not very nicely.
Lag as the girls might, they could not delay their progress much longer, and their bosoms80 were torn with conflicting emotions. What were they to do? Leave the truant81 Tray to his fate? Boldly halt before the next shop window, and trust to his seeing and joining them there? Still more boldly, enter and request "the body of the culprit" to be delivered up to his owner? Before they could come to a decision, Tom Robinson himself appeared in the foreground. He was speaking, or rather listening to a giant of a farmer in a light overcoat and streaming cravat82, who, in place of treating the master of "Robinson's" as "a whipper-snapper of a counter-jumper," was behaving to him with the most unsophisticated deference83. Yet Tom's under size and pale complexion looked more insignificant84 than ever beside the mighty85 thews and sinews and perennial86 bloom of his customer. In spite of that, Tom Robinson was as undeniably a gentleman in
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the surroundings, as Miss Franklin was a lady, and the big honest farmer recognized and accepted the fact. While the pair stood there, and the farmer made an elaborate explanation of the matter in hand—broadcloth or blankets probably—to which Tom attended courteously87, as courteously as he would have heard the deliverances of the member of the county or the bishop88, Tray flashed out of the mellow89 obscurity of the background and sniffed90 vigorously at the trowser ankles of the master of "Robinson's."
"Hallo!" cried Tom, looking down at his feet.
"A bit fine terrier-dawg, Mister Robinson, sir," remarked the farmer; "but I'm thinking he's strayed."
At the same instant both Tray and Tom caught sight of May's anxious face peering in at the shop door. Tray rushed to his mistress with a boisterously91 gracious greeting, which did not include the slightest self-consciousness or sense of wrongdoing in its affability. Tom took a couple of steps after him.
"I'm afraid, Miss May, you're spoiling that dog," he said, in friendly remonstrance92, before he observed who was with May, and stopped and bowed with some constraint93.
"Oh! Mr. Robinson," replied May, in her volubility effacing94 any shy attempt at greeting on
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Dora's part, "I am so sorry for Tray's rudeness in going into your shop without being invited; but I do think he knew you again, I am almost sure of it," she said eagerly, as if the assurance were sufficient propitiation for any trifling95 lack of ceremony where a reasonable human being was concerned.
"It might have been better if I had known a little more of him," said Tom musingly96, biting his moustache, as he took leave of the three.
Tray meandered97 down the street, followed hurriedly by his mistress and Dora. Tom looked after them, and speculated into how many more scrapes the brute98 would get the girls, wondered too if one of them would think she had him to thank for the infliction99, and that it was an odd instance of the friendship which he had pressed her to give him in lieu of a warmer feeling. That friendship was not progressing very rapidly, though the world might consider the Millars more in need of friends than when he had begged to make one of the number. But Tom Robinson knew better. These girls were enough for themselves in any emergency. They would never fall back on friends or depend upon them. Even Dora, who had stayed at home with May, would suffer in silence and bear anything with and for her family, before she would complain or ask help.
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Tray's errant fancy finally took him down a lane leading to the Dewes and to a sheltered walk between rows of yellowing elms by the side of the river. The girls were at last able to enjoy themselves. They sauntered along, talking at their ease, watching the bars of sunlight on the water, and the crowds of flies in the golden mist which the approach of sunset was drawing down over everything, and listening to a robin32 singing on a bough100, when their misadventures for one day culminated101 and their worst apprehensions102 were fulfilled. A mongrel collie advancing in the opposite direction, with no better qualified104 guardian105 than a young servant girl, who had also a perambulator containing a couple of small children to look after, aroused the warlike spirit of Tray. He growled106 defiance107 and bristled108 in every hair, while Dora caught nervously109 at his elegant morocco collar, which burst asunder110 in her grasp, and May shrieked111 agitated soothing112 endearments113 to no purpose. What unmagnanimous cur could resist such a challenge? In another instant the inequal combat was raging furiously. The two dogs first stood on their hind114 legs, grappled together, and glared at each other for a second, like two pugilists trying a preliminary fall, or a couple of duellists pointing their pistols. The next moment the dogs were rolling over and over each other on the narrow
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path, worrying each other with the horrible snarling115 noise that accompanies such a performance.
May danced a frantic dance round the combatants, screamed shrilly116, and made dangerous, ineffectual darts117 at Tray. The servant girl neither danced, nor screamed, nor made darts; she stood stolidly118 still, with something between a gape119 and a grin on her broad red face. She had not the passion for dog-fights entertained by the gamins of the streets, such fights were simply immaterial trifles to her amidst the weightier concerns of her life; and she had seen her master's dog get too many kicks in the ribs—a discipline from which he rose up howling but not greatly injured—to be troubled with any sensitive fears as to his safety. Besides his enemy was a small beast, a lady's dog, whom Growler could dispose of in a twinkling, if his temper were up.
"Oh! can you not call off your dog?" wailed120 May in her agony. "He will kill Tray. Oh! my Tray, my Tray," and she made another rush to rescue her pet.
"Don't, May, you'll be bitten," implored121 Dora.
"He don't mind me, miss, not one bit, our Growler don't," said the composed damsel, as if Growler's indifference122 were rather a feather in his cap.
Alas123! for any attention that the victim paid to
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May's desperate remonstrances124. She had in fact no right to reproach the enemy's temporary proprietress for her lack of authority over her four-footed companion. But poor May in her misery125 was neither logical nor just. She turned on the other with a passionate126 challenge, "What business have you to bring out a horrid127 brute like that, which you cannot master, to kill other people's dear little pets?"
"Hush128, hush, May," besought129 Dora, "I think they are leaving off." There was a slight cessation in the hostilities130. "The noise you are making may set them on again."
"It were your dog as begun it." Growler's sponsor defended both herself and Growler defiantly131.
"Oh!" screamed May, "they're at it again. Tray is down and the cruel monster is at his throat. Will nobody help us? Will nobody save my poor little dog?"
The girls were carrying neither sunshades nor umbrellas. They could not reach the lower boughs132 of the trees to pull down a switch, but just as May was springing forward to dare the worst herself, sooner than see Tray perish unaided before her eyes, Dora caught sight of a large half-loose stone in the path. "Stand back, May," she gasped133, as she tore it up. Dora's face was as white as paper; she was sick with fright and distress; she would
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fain have shut her eyes if she had not known that she needed every advantage which sight could give her to prevent her hitting Tray, instead of his foe134, as the two rolled over each other in the struggle which was growing deadlier every second.
"Stop," cried a voice of command behind her, "you'll have the dog turn upon you as soon as he has finished his present job," and a welcome deliverer ran forward just in time. He seized the first tail he could grasp—luckily for him it was Tray's and not Growler's—and hung on to it like a vice135. The "redder" of the combatants, regardless of "the redder's lick," which was likely to be his portion, continued to hold the tail of the now yelling Tray, and at the same time seized him by the scruff of the neck with the other hand, and dragged both animals, still locked together, with his whole force nearer and nearer to the edge of the bank by the river.
A new terror beset136 May. "Take care, you'll have them in the water."
No sooner said than done. With a plunge137 the two dogs fell heavily into the Dewes, while the man who had brought them to this pass kept his own footing with difficulty.
"They'll both be drowned," cried May, clasping her hands in the last depths of anguish138.
"Not at all," said Tom Robinson, panting a
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little from his exertions139 and wiping his hands with his handkerchief. "I did it on purpose—don't you see? It was the only way to make the beggars lose their grip. Look there, they are swimming like brothers down the stream—that small spitfire of yours is not badly hurt. I told you that you were spoiling him—you ought to make him obey and come to heel, or he will become the torment140 of your life. The bank shelves a little a few yards further down; you will find that he will come to shore shaking himself nothing the worse. It may be a lesson to him; if not, I should like to give him a bit of my mind."
True enough, Tray scrambled141 up the bank presently, bearing no more alarming traces of the fray142 than were to be found in his limping on three legs, and halting every other minute that he might ruefully attend to the fourth.
Growler also landed, and after glancing askance at his antagonist143 and at the champion who had suddenly interposed between Tray and his deserts, wisely agreed with the small maid-servant on the judiciousness144 of immediately taking themselves off, in company with the perambulator and the babies, to avoid any chance of awkward inquiries145.
May ran to Tray, clasped him all dripping in her arms, and prepared to carry him tenderly home. But in spite of the injuries, for which he was
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exceedingly sorry, he asserted his spirit of independence, and declined to be made a baby of.
"I am afraid we have given you a great deal of trouble, Mr. Tom," said Dora, while May was still devoting herself to her rescued treasure. Dora spoke146 shyly, and inadvertently used the old familiar name, which he had borne when his father was alive.
"Don't mention it," he said gravely, as shy as she was; "I feel answerable for inflicting147 that wretched dog on you—that is, on your sister. I was sure he would lead you a pretty dance after he was in the shop this afternoon."
"Oh! Mr. Robinson," cried May, tearing herself away from the contemplation of her darling in order to pour forth2 her sense of relief and the depth of her gratitude148, "what a good thing it was you came up to us! What should we have done without you? Oh! you don't think dear little Tray is lamed149 for life—do you? Of course that is ever so much better than having him killed outright150 in our sight; still if he would only let me pick him up and rest his poor hurt leg it might help him," protested May wistfully.
"Let him alone, he is all right," he said in his short stiff way. Then he made a bantering151 amendment152 on his speech, because he was quick to see that his want of sympathy vexed the young girl,
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perhaps rendered her burden of gratitude more difficult to bear.
"At the worst, you know he would be as well off as Horatius Cocles, and he is likely to escape the beating which he richly deserves."
"Oh! Mr. Robinson, beat him! when he meant no harm, when he has been all but drowned or worried to death by that great, coarse, rough creature," cried May, opening large brown eyes of astonishment153 and indignation.
"I wonder what he would call Tray if he could speak—an insolent154 little rascal155, who had no proper respect for his superiors."
Dora did not join in the conversation. Her colour came and went, and she kept glancing at the handkerchief which Tom Robinson was fluttering about in his hand.
It was May who stopped short and cried in fresh dismay, "There is blood on your handkerchief; I believe you have been bitten. What shall we do?"
"What should you do, Miss May?" he answered with a laugh. "It is only a minute impression left by the fine teeth of your friend. You would have it that he knew me a little while ago, and it seems we were destined156 to be more intimately acquainted."
"Come home with us this minute," cried May,
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so dead in earnest, that she grasped his arm, and made as if she would have dragged him forward. "Father will dress it and heal it. I am so sorry, so ashamed, though Tray did not know what he was doing."
He laughed again quite merrily, as it sounded. "If Tray did not know, he did his small best to get rid of me. I daresay I was not treating him with much ceremony. I am afraid I gave his tail as sharp a pinch as I could administer before I could get at his neck. No, I am not going home with you; thanks for the invitation. Do you wish Dr. Millar to think me crazy? Do you apply to your father for medical assistance when you give yourself a pin-prick?"
"But the bite of a dog is very different, though Tray is the dog," moaned May.
"Tray is in excellent health and spirits; I can vouch157 for that," said Tom. "I have not the slightest apprehension103 of hydrophobia."
"O—h!" said May, with a deeper moan.
Dora had continued silent; indeed she could hardly speak, and her face had grown more like ashes than paper.
He was standing49 still, and raising his hat a little awkwardly with his left hand, in lieu of shaking hands with his right, as they came to the point where their roads parted.
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Dora made a great effort and uttered her remonstrance: "I wish you would come home with us, and let father look at your hand."
"You too, Miss Dora—nonsense," he said sharply as it sounded.
"If Annie had been here," she persisted, "she would have been of a hundred times more use than I, but if you'll let me I'll try to tie it up for you."
She spoke so humbly158 that he answered her with quick kindness, "And pain you by exposing a scratch to your notice? No, indeed, all that I'll ask of you is never to fling stones at strange dogs, though they should be tearing that unlucky imp42 of mischief limb from limb."
"It was very unkind of him to speak so rudely of poor Tray," sighed May, as the sisters hurried home; "although it was Tom Robinson who gave him to me, I don't think the man has ever put a proper value on the dog. But I daresay he will call to-morrow though he has not come with us just now, to ask for Tray, and to see how we are after our fright."
"No, he won't come," said Dora with conviction, and she walked on silently thinking to herself, "How strong and resolute159 he was, though he is not a big man, and how little he minded being bitten. Men are different from women. Of course, he is nothing to me, but I may be permitted to
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admire his courage and coolness. No, he will not come, I am sure of that, he is the last man to take advantage of an accident and of his coming to our assistance. Even if he did, and I had ever cared for him, and there had been no 'Robinson's,' it would be too late and too bad to change one's mind after we had grown poor and had to work for ourselves."
Dora was right. Tom Robinson did not come. He contented160 himself with intercepting161 Dr. Millar on his rounds, learning that Dora and May were no worse for their misadventure, and giving their father a piece of information.
In consequence of that hint, and under the pretence162 of having Tray's wounded leg properly seen to, he was, to May's intense chagrin163 and disgust, despatched to a veterinary surgeon's, where he remained for some time, returning at last a sadder and a wiser dog.
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amendment
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astonishment
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insolent
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rascal
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destined
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vouch
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humbly
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resolute
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contented
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intercepting
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pretence
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