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"He had no
business to carry gunpowder about with him. Of course they won't believe
but he flung it in purposely."
Miss Deborah could not gather her senses. "Who won't?--the ladies at
Chalk Cottage?"
"The ladies at Chalk Cottage," assented Jan. "If I saw all these bottles
go to smithereens, through Cheese stowing gunpowder in his trousers'
pockets, I might go into a passion too, Miss Deb."
"But, Mr. Jan--_this_ is not what's being said in Deerham?"
"Law, if you go by all that's said in Deerham, you'll have enough to
do," cried Jan. "One says one thing and one says another. No two are
ever in the same tale. When that codicil was lost at Verner's Pride, ten
different people were accused by Deerham of stealing it."
"Were they?" responded Miss Deborah abstractedly.
"Did you never hear it! You just ask Deerham about the row between the
doctor and Chalk Cottage, and you'll hear ten versions, all different.
What else could be expected? As if he'd take the trouble to explain the
rights of it to them! Not that I should advise you to ask," concluded
Jan pointedly.


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