Be pleased, therefore, to take it to him and deliver it into his own
hands; but I had rather you said nothing about it to the Mayor or
Mayoress, nor to any of your fellow-servants. Slip out unperceived if
you can. When you have delivered the note, ask for an answer at once,
and bring it to me."
So saying, he slipped a sum equal to about five shillings into the man's
hand.
The servant returned in about twenty minutes, for the temple was quite
near, and gave a note to Hanky, which ran, "Your wishes shall be attended
to without fail."
"Good!" said Hanky to the man. "No one in the house knows of your having
run this errand for me?"
"No one, sir."
"Thank you! I wish you a very good night."
CHAPTER XIII: A VISIT TO THE PROVINCIAL DEFORMATORY AT FAIRMEAD
Having finished his early dinner, and not fearing that he should be
either recognised at Fairmead or again enquired after from Sunch'ston, my
father went out for a stroll round the town, to see what else he could
find that should be new and strange to him. He had not gone far before
he saw a large building with an inscription saying that it was the
Provincial Deformatory for Boys. Underneath the larger inscription there
was a smaller one--one of those corrupt versions of my father's sayings,
which, on dipping into the Sayings of the Sunchild, he had found to be so
vexatiously common.
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