Baldwin, then, found not only Maniwel, but the bulk of his neighbours well-disposed when with the foundering of his ship he lost all that he had, and was so utterly beggared that even heart and hope—salvage which many ship-wrecked souls manage to bear away with them, and with which they find life still worth living—went with the rest. They greeted him in friendly fashion when they met (which was indeed seldom for he shunned society) but he responded with a scarcely perceptible nod and kept his eyes on the ground until they had passed. “It’ll go agen t’ grain, having to take his orders thro’ Maniwel and Jagger, an’ living on their charity, as you mud say”—this was the universal opinion, freely expressed and with much wise head-shaking: a very natural conclusion. It was incorrect. In the hour of his calamity Baldwin came to himself and clung with a pitiful and almost childish sense of security to the friend of his youth. Like the seeds in Arctic soil which have been quickened into life by the warmth of some explorer’s camp fire and have forced their tender shoots through the hard crust of earth, an unsuspected virtue quickened in Baldwin, who by his actions—for words failed him—showed himself grateful. The dog-like look in his eyes made Maniwel uneasy and Jagger irritable. “Come, come!” the father would say, “Tha owes us naught! Tha’rt working for thi’ living, aren’t tha?” and the young man would growl out that it pleased him to think they had taken the wind out of “yon beggar’s” sails. It was indeed a thought that comforted Jagger and compensated for much that was not agreeable, that by his ungenerous and even brutal action Inman had over-reached himself, alienating the sympathies of those who had been growing more favourably disposed towards him and deepening the dislike of the rest, so that he was left for a while almost without customers. Inman himself recognised his mistake, and was vexed and disconcerted, though he turned an unperturbed face to the world, saving his ill-humour for his wife, whom he made to suffer vicariously for this cunning move of Maniwel’s as he chose to regard it.