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"I'm sorry, but I'm doing what I take to be my duty," he said with a desperate effort. The older man's mood changed as though in a flash. "In that case I've nothing more to say." He got up. "Come on, Hobbs, Mr. Brewster seems immovable. We'll have to wire Philadelphia for the money." With that he went briskly out. The banker looked after him in wonderment.
'Thou'rt niver for saying thou burnt it down wi' t' gang in it, for sure? asked Bell. 'Na, na, not this time. T' 'gang fled up t' hill like coneys; and Hobbs and his folks carried off a bag o' money; but t' oud tumbledown place is just a heap o' brick and mortar; an' t' furniture is smoulderin' int' ashes; and, best of a', t' men is free, and will niver be cotched wi' a fire-bell again.
Hobbs attended to all that for us; fact is, this boat is owned by a friend of his, which was how we got it as cheap as we did. And more than that, the gentleman attended to packing all our supplies at the Soo, and sent the boat here on a steamer, so we could start from this place. It was Dr. Philander's idea, you know, this coming through the copper region along the south shore of the Eke.
He came back and stood facing the young man. "Count," began Dank excitedly, "you remember the big red letter B on all of her trunks, don't you? Hobbs is positive he " Count Quinnox sprang to his feet and banged the table with his fist. "By jove!" he shouted, suddenly comprehending. "The letter B?" queried Gourou, perplexed.
Hobbs could scarcely believe the evidence of his senses when he looked across the counter and saw Dick rush in with the paper in his hand. The boy was out of breath with running; so much out of breath, in fact, that he could scarcely speak as he threw the paper down on the counter. "Hello!" exclaimed Mr. Hobbs. "Hello! What you got there?" "Look at it!" panted Dick.
"I think we'd better get back to the luggage," said Dank hastily." Hobbs thinks that she " "Oh, Lord, Dank, don't tell me what Hobbs thinks," growled Robin. "Let her make use of all the letters in the alphabet if it pleases her. What is it to us? Moreover, she may be utilising a lot of borrowed trunks, who knows? Or B may have been her initial before she was divorced and " "Divorced?"
So I do hope you can both come. By the way, Knight wants a camp hand, a kind of roustabout, who can cook a handy man, you know." "I have him," said Barry. "Harry Hobbs." "Hobbs? Boozes a bit, doesn't he?" "Not now. Hasn't for six months. He's a new man. I can guarantee him." "You can, eh? Well, my experience is once a boozer always a boozer." "Oh," said Barry, "Hobbs is different.
Mr. Hobbs used to read the papers until his head was in a whirl, and in the evening he and Dick would talk it all over. They found out what an important personage an Earl of Dorincourt was, and what a magnificent income he possessed, and how many estates he owned, and how stately and beautiful was the Castle in which he lived; and the more they learned, the more excited they became.
Robert Hobbs himself, a smart young man, with a black stock, red whiskers, and an eye-glass pendant to a hair-chain which was possibly a gage d'amour from Miss Margaret Winsley. A profusion of bows, compliments, apologies, etc., the carriage drove up the sweep, and Lord Vargrave descended, and was immediately ushered into Mr. Hobbs's private room.
'It'll ha' been a loss to John Hobbs all his things burnt, or trampled on. Mebbe he desarved it all, but one's a kind o' tender feeling to one's tables and chairs, special if one's had t' bees-waxing on 'em. 'A wish he'd been burnt on t' top on 'em, a do, growled out Daniel, shaking the ash out of his pipe. 'Don't speak so ill o' thysel', said his wife.
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