She turned back into the bedroom, and Dicky Weed ground ’is teeth together and told Bill Chambers that the next time he took ’is advice he’d remember it.  He stood there trembling all over with temper, and when Mrs. Pretty came to the winder agin and dropped the coat on his ’ead and said that Bob felt his kindness very much, and he ’oped Dicky ud make a good job of it, because it was ’is favrite coat, he couldn’t speak.  He stood there shaking all over till Mrs. Pretty ’ad shut the winder down agin, and then ’e turned to the conjurer, as ’ad come up with the rest of us, and asked ’im wot he was going to do about it now.

“I tell you he’s got the watch,” ses the conjurer, pointing up at the winder.  “It went into ’is pocket.  I saw it go.  He was no more shot than you were.  If ’e was, why doesn’t he send for the doctor?”

“I can’t ’elp that,” ses Dicky Weed.  “I want my watch or else twenty pounds.”

“We’ll talk it over in a day or two,” ses the conjurer.  “I’m giving my celebrated entertainment at Wickham Fair on Monday, but I’ll come back ’ere to the Cauliflower the Saturday before and give another entertainment, and then we’ll see wot’s to be done.  I can’t run away, because in any case I can’t afford to miss the fair.”

Dicky Weed gave way at last and went off ’ome to bed and told ’is wife about it, and listening to ’er advice he got up at six o’clock in the morning and went round to see ’ow Bob Pretty was.

Mrs. Pretty was up when ’e got there, and arter calling up the stairs to Bob told Dicky Weed to go upstairs.  Bob Pretty was sitting up in bed with ’is face covered in bandages, and he seemed quite pleased to see ’im.

“It ain’t everybody that ud get up at six o’clock to see ’ow I’m getting on,” he ses.  “You’ve got a feeling ’art, Dicky.”

Dicky Weed coughed and looked round, wondering whether the watch was in the room, and, if so, where it was hidden.

“Now I’m ’ere I may as well tidy up the room for you a bit,” he ses, getting up.  “I don’t like sitting idle.”

“Thankee, mate,” ses Bob; and ’e lay still and watched Dicky Weed out of the corner of the eye that wasn’t covered with the bandages.

I don’t suppose that room ’ad ever been tidied up so thoroughly since the Prettys ‘ad lived there, but Dicky Weed couldn’t see anything o’ the watch, and wot made ’im more angry than anything else was Mrs. Pretty setting down in a chair with ’er ’ands folded in her lap and pointing out places that he ’adn’t done.

“You leave ’im alone,” ses Bob. “He knows wot ’e’s arter.  Wot did you do with those little bits o’ watch you found when you was bandaging me up, missis?”

“Don’t ask me,” ses Mrs. Pretty.  “I was in such a state I don’t know wot I was doing ’ardly.”

“Well, they must be about somewhere,” ses Bob.  “You ’ave a look for ’em, Dicky, and if you find ’em, keep ’em.  They belong to you.”