Chapter Nine
Aye, I paid ‘er a visit! I were curious to meet the young lady, after all I ‘ad lately ‘eard. Besides, ‘er friends were right concerned when they knew what she ‘ad done.
She might o’ thought ‘er movements would go unremarked, but she were dead wrong. The moment she were off wi’ the wrong Grunewald, I ‘eard of it. I ‘ad word from Drig an’ Hidenory both, an’ soon afterwards a deal o’ people turned up at the bridge wantin’ all manner o’ conversation wi’ me.
But I ‘ave got a little ahead o’ meself. I must go back a step or two, an’ tell ye what ‘appened afore I met the little maid.
Grunewald was to be disappointed by the results of his endeavours with the hard-won fairy ointment.
At first, his plans had been remarkably successful. The news that the fetch had commandeered his
