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'I'm come to bid you good-bye he said. 'Where are you going, Mick? asked Caldigate, climbing up out of the hole by the rope. 'I'm blessed if I know, but I'm off. You are getting that hole tarnation crooked. The man was going without any allusion to the wages he had earned, or to the work that he had done. But then, in truth, he had not earned his wages, as he had broken his contract.

The uncle, aunt, and cousins at Babington soon renewed their intimacy with John Caldigate, and became intimate with Hester. The old squire still turned up his nose at them, as he had done all his life, calling them Boeotians, and reminding his son that Suffolk had always been a silly county.

He also had been disposed to think that Dick Shand and Bagwax might have been bribed by the squire. It was at any rate possible. And the twenty thousand pounds paid to the accusing witnesses had always stuck in his throat when he had endeavoured to believe that Caldigate might be innocent.

Then, looking at him for a moment in silence, she replied, very steadily, 'Yes; that is my husband, John Caldigate. To Caldigate and his friends, and indeed to all those collected in the court, the most interesting person of the day was Sir John Joram.

Holt, almost choked by the energy of his own utterances. Again at Home On his arrival in England John Caldigate went instantly down to Folking.

He was giving his daughter absolutely no fortune; nor had he even vouchsafed to declare what money should be coming to her at his death. John Caldigate had positively refused to say a word on the subject; had refused even when instigated to do so by Hester's brother. 'It shall be just as he pleases, Caldigate had said.

The request had been that he should write from Australia, and the correspondence between him and his father had always been so slight, that it had not occurred to him to write from Pollington. But Mr. Caldigate had, not expected, but hoped that a letter might come at the last moment. He knew to a day, to an hour, when the vessel would sail from Plymouth.

We were delighted to hear it, though poor Dick could not share it with you. You have made an immense fortune. 'Oh dear no, not that. I have been able to get over the little difficulties which I left behind me when I went away, and have got something in hand to live upon. 'And now ? 'I suppose I shall go back again, said Caldigate, with an air of indifference.

But Robert Bolton thought very much of it, so much that on the following day he ran up to London on purpose to discuss the matter with his brother William. How would it be with them, and what would be his duty, if the statement made by the woman should turn out to be true? What security had they after the story told by Caldigate himself that there had been no marriage?

And so they took their hats and went off, and Jack Adamson was left 'sitting anywhere' about the place. Tom Crinkett at Folking Caldigate thought that he had better take his companion where there would be the least chance of encountering many eyes.