'I was wrong,' he said- 'yes, yes- I ought to have thought. There's
nothing to witness against you, Jem. Only you'd been into my house
oftener than anybody else, and so you came into my head. I don't
accuse you- I won't accuse anybody- only,' he added, lifting up his
hands to his head, and turning away with bewildered misery, 'I try-
I try to think where my money can be.'
'Aye, aye, they're gone where it's hot enough to melt 'em, I
doubt,' said Mr Macey.
'Tchuh!' said the farrier. And then he asked, with a
cross-examining air, 'How much money might there be in the bags,
Master Marner?'
'Two hundred and seventy-two pounds, twelve and sixpence, last
night when I counted it,' said Silas, seating himself again, with a
groan.
'Pooh! why, they'd be none so heavy to carry. Some tramp's been in,
that's all; and as for the no footmarks, and the bricks and the sand
being all right- why, your eyes are pretty much like a insect's,
Master Marner; they're obliged to look so close, you can't see much at
a time. It's my opinion as, if I'd been you, or you'd been me- for
it comes to the same thing- you wouldn't have thought you'd found
everything as you left it. But what I vote is, as two of the
sensiblest o' the company should go with you to Master Kench, the
constable's- he's ill i' bed, I know that much- and get him to appoint
one of us his deppity; for that's the law, and I don't think anybody
'ull take upon him to contradick me there.
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