Crossword-Solution: EWBANK 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Indeed I was by way of asking too many questions (the most oblique and delicate was that which elicited my host's name, Ewbank), nor was I careful enough to conceal their drift.

Not silver--real good Australian gold! For old Ewbank hadn't quite appreciated me till then; he was a hard nut, a much older man than myself, and I felt pretty sure he thought me young for the place, and my supposed feat a fluke.

There was no window down there, and, though I could no longer hear old Ewbank snoring, I had not the slightest reason to anticipate disturbance from that quarter.

You see, old chap, one's caution doesn't always let one in! "'Who's that knocking?' said Ewbank up above.

Then, a tottering step, a hard, short, shallow breathing, and Ewbank's voice in horror-- "'My God! Good Lord! What's happened to you? You're bleeding like a pig!' "'Not now,' came with a grateful sort of sigh.