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I'll throw Mr. Grady into the river first, and hang him up on the hoist to dry." "But if he really means to stand out," she said, "wouldn't it hurt us for you to go around there?" "Why?" He was openly smiling now. Then, of a sudden, he looked at her with a shrewd, close gaze, and repeated, "Why?" "Maybe I don't understand it." she said nervously. "Max doesn't think I see things very clearly.
There were a number of things at the office demanding my attention, and I was so late in getting there and the morning passed so rapidly that when the office-boy came in and announced that Mr. Grady and Mr. Simmonds were outside and wished to see me, I did not, for a moment, connect their visit with Godfrey.
"The 'Aurora' is fast in the pack and drifting God knows where. Well, there are prospects of a most interesting winter drift. We are all in good health, except Grady, whose rib is mending rapidly; we have good spirits and we will get through. But what of the poor beggars at Cape Evans, and the Southern Party? It is a dismal prospect for them.
I could hear him talking to them in sharp, low tones, and then they departed as suddenly as they had come. The reserves also hurried away, and I concluded that Grady was trying to throw a net about the territory in which the fugitive was probably concealed; but my interest in that manoeuvre was overshadowed, for the time being, by my anxiety for Simmonds.
Now, I am going to talk plain to you. I came here to build this elevator, and I'm going to do it. I propose to treat you men fair and square. If you think you ain't treated right, you send an honest man to this office, and I'll talk with him. But I'm through with Grady. I won't have him here at all. If you send him around again, I'll throw him off the job." The men were a little startled.
"And then, of course, you will write the story," sneered Grady, "and give yourself all the credit." "Well," asked Godfrey, looking at him, "do you think you deserve any?" And Grady could only crimson and keep silent. "As for the story, it is already written. It will be on the streets in ten minutes and it will create a sensation. Please count the diamonds.
Grady, when you came here before you said it was to warn me, but the next time you came you were going to begin to act. I'm all ready." "All right," said Grady, with a vicious grin. "Be as smart as you like. I'll be paid well for every word of it and for every minute you've kept me waiting yesterday and tonight. That was the most expensive supper you ever ate.
The thought flashed through my mind that doubtless M. Pigot was in the way of receiving a handsome present. "There they are," said Simmonds, and closed the bag with a snap, as Grady came in again. "I've arranged for the box," said Grady, "and one of our wagons is at the door.
Of course, I took them to be real sovereigns " "Well, so they are practically," Egan said. "They contain absolutely as much gold as an English coin of equal value. They are made from the metal Fenwick managed to loot from the Four Finger Mine." "What, do you know all about that?" Venner cried. "We know all about everything," Grady said gravely.
I peered out from between my fingers, and saw there were three of us slumbering, or feigning to slumber, on the lockers: myself, one Dutton and one Grady, both resolute men. On deck the rest were got to a pitch of revelry quite beyond the bounds of what is human; so that no reasonable name can describe the sounds they were now making.
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