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[00:35.61]Chapter 1
[00:38.62]It was cold and dark out in the road
[00:41.75]and the rain did not stop for a minute．
[00:45.46]But in the little living－room of number 12 Castle Road it was nice and warm．
[00:52.17]Old Mr White and his son, Herbert,
[00:54.82]played chess and Mrs White sat and watched them．
[00:59.78]The old woman was happy because her husband
[01:02.29]and her son were good friends and they liked to be together．
[01:07.16]'Herbert's a good son,' she thought．
[01:10.60]'We waited a long time for him
[01:13.35]and I was nearly forty when he was born,
[01:17.05]but we are a happy family．'
[01:19.64]And old Mrs White smiled．
[01:22.99]It was true．Herbert was young and he laughed a lot,
[01:28.89]but his mother and his father laughed with him．
[01:33.31]They had not got much money,
[01:35.40]but they were a very happy little family．
[01:39.37]The two men did not talk because they played carefully．
[01:44.21]The room was quiet, but the noise of the rain was worse now
[01:49.08]and they could hear it on the windows．
[01:51.68]Suddenly Old Mr White looked up．
[01:56.05]'Listen to the rain!' he said．
[01:59.85]'Yes, it's a bad night,'
[02:02.75]Herbert answered．'It's not a good night to be out．
[02:07.50]But is your friend, Tom Morris,coming tonight?'
[02:11.05]'Yes, that's right．
[02:13.76]He's coming at about seven o'clock,
[02:16.18]the old man said．'But perhaps this rain…'
[02:21.34]Mr White did not finish because
[02:23.83]just then the young man heard a noise．
[02:27.33]'Listen!'Herbert said．
[02:29.82]'There's someone at the door now．'
[02:32.89]'I didn't hear a noise,'
[02:35.62]his father answered,
[02:38.11]but he got up from his chair and went to open the front door．
[02:43.28]Mrs White got up too and began to put things away．
[02:48.25]Mr White said,'Come in, come in, Tom．
[02:53.53]It's wonderful to see you again．
[02:56.72]What a bad night!
[02:58.78]Give me your coat and then come into the living－room．
[03:03.04]It's nice and warm in there．'
[03:07.20]The front door was open,
[03:09.54]and in the living-room Mrs White and Herbert felt the cold．
[03:14.56]Then Mr White came back into the living－room
[03:17.51]with a big,red-faced man．
[03:21.31]'This is Tom Morris,'
[03:23.69]Mr White told his wife and son．
[03:27.02]'We were friends when we were young．
[03:30.02]We worked together
[03:31.09]before Tom went to India．
[03:33.83]Tom, this is my wife and this is our son, Herbert．'
[03:41.29]'Pleased to meet you,' Tom Morris said．
[03:45.66]'Pleased to meet you, Mr Morris,'
[03:48.67]Mrs White answered．
[03:50.57]'Please come and sit down．'
[03:53.27]'Yes, come on, Tom,'
[03:56.15]Mr White said．'Over here．
[03:58.99]It's nice and warm．'
[04:02.07]'Thank you,'the big man answered and he sat down．
[04:07.58]'Let's have some whisky,'
[04:09.57]Old Mr White said．
[04:11.82]'You need something to warm you on a cold night．'
[04:16.09]He got out a bottle of whisky and the two old friends began to drink and talk．
[04:23.25]The little family listened with interest
[04:25.52]to this visitor from far away and he told them many strange stories．