The work was started the next morning, and for a fortnight or so
everything went on in the smoothest manner possible. The men were quite
cheerful and good-tempered, doing their tasks and taking their wages,
and though we kept our regular watch nothing disturbed us in the
slightest degree.
"An' so you fun 'em in the wheel-pit, did you, Mester Jacob?" said
Gentles to me one dinner-hour as he sat by his grindstone eating his
bread and meat off a clean napkin spread over his knees.
"Yes," I said, looking at him keenly.
"But how came you to find 'em, mester?"