"’Tis the law, sir; Trenchard owned it all, poor man, and axed my pardon, he did, for bringing it on me.  Ah! if he’d only telled me afore!  A week’s such a little time to get all that money.  When he telled me, wi’ tears in his eyes, I said,  ’Now just you run up along to Lunnon and see your brother, as keeps a public-house and is rolling in money.  He’ll help ’ee, and I’ll work myself to skin and bone to pay him back.’  And he’d just time to catch the train at the junction, and if his brother be hard, as some be, there’s nothing but the work’us for us."