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The house, said the waiter, was celebrated for its sherry. Would he take half a pint of sherry? So he ordered the sherry, which was afterwards drunk by Bollum. Bollum came, punctual to the moment, and seated himself at the table with good-humoured alacrity. 'Well, Mr. Caldigate, how is it to be? I think you must have seen that what I have proposed will be for the best.
That's what'd be right between man and man, said Mr. Bollum, interrupting him. 'Had no other subject been introduced. 'I know nothing about other subjects. I haven't come here to meddle with other subjects. I'm, as it were, a partner of Crinkett's. Any way, I am acting as his agent. I'm quite above board, Mr. Caldigate, and in what I say I mean to stick to my own business and not go beyond it.
Perhaps, after all, Robert Bolton was right when he told him that he ought to have allowed Hester to remain at Chesterton. Whatever he might do when he got to London, he felt it to be his duty to go up and keep his appointment with Bollum.
'Have you brought a receipt signed by both of you? Then Bollum handed him a receipt signed 'Timothy Crinkett, for self and partners. But Caldigate demanded that the woman also should sign it. 'There is a difficulty about the name, you see, said Bollum. There was a difficulty about the name, certainly.
You see, said Bollum, becoming a little more confidential, 'how difficult it is for me to speak. Things ain't altered. You've got the money. They've lost the money. There isn't any ill-will, Mr. Caldigate. As for Crinkett, he's a rough diamond, of course. What am I to say about the lady? 'I don't see that you need say anything. 'That's just it. Of course she's one of them. That's all.
Since those days she had become a slave to gold, and such slavery is hardly compatible with good looks in a woman. There she stood, ready to listen to him, ready to take his money, but determined not to utter a word. Then he took the cheque out of his pocket, and holding it in his hand, spoke to them as follows: 'I have explained to Mr. Bollum, and have explained to my friend here, Mr.
And I shall bring a witness with me to see them take the money. Bollum who was considerably depressed by his companion's manner, said that he did understand. 'I suppose I can have a private room here, at noon to-morrow? asked Caldigate, turning to the woman at the bar.
'Wonderful! said Bollum, enthusiastically. 'And as I was once in partnership with your uncle, I do not like to think that I enriched myself by a bargain which impoverished him. 'It ain't nice, is it, that you should have it all, and he nothing?
'It was not my doing. I simply made him an offer, which every one at the time believed to be liberal. 'Just so. We grants all that. But still you got all their money; old pals of yours too, as they say out there. 'It is a matter of most intense regret to me. As soon as I knew the circumstances, Mr. Bollum, I should have been most happy to have divided the loss with them 'That's it, that's it.
He and you have different legs to stand upon. Then Mr. Bollum went away, and was driven back in his gig to the Cambridge Hotel. As soon as the front door was closed Hester hurried down to her husband, whom she found still in the hall. He took her into his own room, and told her everything that had passed, everything, as accurately as he could.
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