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Rewards and Fairies ‘It’s all right,’ Una called up the stairs. ‘We found him, Sam. almost began to hurt, it died away in a hurry of beautiful Does his mother know?’ sorrowful cries, like a wine-glass rubbed with a wet finger. ‘He’s come off by himself. She’ll be justabout crazy,’ Sam The pendulum clanked—one loud clank to each silent swing. answered. Dan heard Una return from Mrs Kidbrooke’s, and ran down ‘Then I’ll run down street and tell her.’ Una darted off. to fetch her. She was standing by the font staring at some one ‘Thank you, Miss Una. Would you like to see how we’re who kneeled at the Altar-rail. mendin’ the bell-beams, Mus’ Dan?’ ‘Is that the Lady who practises the organ?’ she whispered. Dan hopped up, and saw young Sam lying on his stomach ‘No. She’s gone into the organ-place. Besides, she wears in a most delightful place among beams and ropes, close to black,’ Dan replied. the five great bells. Old Mr Kidbrooke on the floor beneath The figure rose and came down the nave. It was a white- was planing a piece of wood, and Jimmy was eating the shavhaired man in a long white gown with a sort of scarf looped ings as fast as they came away. He never looked at Jimmy; low on the neck, one end hanging over his shoulder. His Jimmy never stopped eating; and the broad gilt-bobbed pen- loose long sleeves were embroidered with gold, and a deep dulum of the church clock never stopped swinging across the strip of gold embroidery waved and sparkled round the hem white-washed wall of the tower. of his gown. Dan winked through the sawdust that fell on his upturned ‘Go and meet him,’ said Puck’s voice behind the font. ‘It’s face. ‘Ring a bell,’ he called. only Wilfrid.’ ‘I mustn’t do that, but I’ll buzz one of ‘em a bit for you,’ ‘Wilfrid who?’ said Dan. ‘You come along too.’ said Sam. He pounded on the sound-bow of the biggest bell, ‘Wilfrid—Saint of Sussex, and Archbishop of York. I shall and waked a hollow groaning boom that ran up and down wait till he asks me.’ He waved them forward. Their feet the tower like creepy feelings down your back. just when it squeaked on the old grave-slabs in the centre aisle. The Arch- 132
Rudyard Kipling bishop raised one hand with a pink ring on it, and said some- He led them to the end of the south aisle, where there is a thing in Latin. He was very handsome, and his thin face looked slab of iron which says in queer, long-tailed letters: Orate P. almost as silvery as his thin circle of hair. Annema Jhone Coline. The children always called it Panama ‘Are you alone?’ he asked. Corner. ‘Puck’s here, of course,’ said Una. ‘Do you know him?’ The Archbishop moved slowly about the little church, peer- ‘I know him better now than I used to.’ He beckoned over ing at the old memorial tablets and the new glass windows. Dan’s shoulder, and spoke again in Latin. Puck pattered for- The Lady who practises the organ began to pull out stops and ward, holding himself as straight as an arrow. The Archbishop rustle hymn-books behind the screen. smiled. ‘I hope she’ll do all the soft lacey tunes—like treacle on ‘Be welcome,’ said he. ‘Be very welcome.’ porridge,’ said Una. ‘Welcome to you also, O Prince of the church,’ Puck re- ‘I like the trumpety ones best,’ said Dan. ‘Oh, look at plied. Wilfrid! He’s trying to shut the Altar-gates!’ The Archbishop bowed his head and passed on, till he glim- ‘Tell him he mustn’t,’ said Puck, quite seriously. mered like a white moth in the shadow by the font. He can’t, anyhow,’ Dan muttered, and tiptoed out of Panama ‘He does look awfully princely,’ said Una. ‘Isn’t he coming Corner while the Archbishop patted and patted at the carved back?’ gates that always sprang open again beneath his hand. ‘Oh yes. He’s only looking over the church. He’s very fond ‘That’s no use, sir,’ Dan whispered. ‘Old Mr Kidbrooke of churches,’ said Puck. ‘What’s that?’ says Altar-gates are just the one pair of gates which no man The Lady who practices the organ was speaking to the can shut. He made ‘em so himself.’ blower-boy behind the organ-screen. ‘We can’t very well talk The Archbishop’s blue eyes twinkled. Dan saw that he knew here,’ Puck whispered. ‘Let’s go to Panama Corner.’ all about it. 133
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Rudyard Kipling A year or so later,
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Cold Iron ‘Gold is for the mistre
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