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So that on the whole perhaps I acted aright in keeping that infamous tale to myself as long as ever it was possible. But now ere ever I spoke of him which I was always loath to do Mrs. Hockin told me that he very seldom came to see them now, and when he did come he seemed to be uneasy and rather strange in his manners. I thought to myself that the cause of this was clear.
"I am sure that he never would," I replied; "it was only their dresses that he liked at all, and that very, to my mind, extraordinary style, as well as unbecoming. You know what I mean, Mrs. Hockin, that wonderful what shall I call it? way of looping up." "Call me 'Aunt Mary, my dear, as you did when the waves were so dreadful.
In 1886, the partnership ceased; but, in 1869, Mr Clark went out to the Persian Gulf to lay a second cable there. Here he was nearly lost in the shipwreck of the Carnatic on the Island of Shadwan in the Red Sea. Subsequently Mr. Clark became the head of a firm of consulting electricians, well known under the title of Clark, Forde and Company, and latterly including the late Mr. C. Hockin and Mr.
But if, without that, you can give me your strong help, my only difficulty will be to thank you." "I like plain speaking, and you always speak plainly; sometimes too plainly," he said, recollecting little times when he had the worst of it. "How far do you trust me now?" "Major Hockin, I trust you altogether. You may make mistakes, as all men do " "Yes, yes, yes.
Otherwise, of course, I should have had this old box opened years ago." "We must look at things as they are," said Major Hockin, for I could say nothing. "The question is, what do you mean to do now?"
"It is one of the saddest things I ever heard of," Major Hockin began to say to me. "Poor Shovelin! poor Shovelin! A man of large capital the very thing we want. It might have been the making of this place. Why, driver, where the devil are you driving us?" "No fear, your honor. I know every trick of it.
They are walking upon that. Starve them for a week, and forty eggs at least will reward you for stern discipline." But all this little talk I only tell to show how good and soft Mrs. Hockin was; and her husband, in spite of all his self-opinion, and resolute talk about money and manorial dues, in his way, perhaps, was even less to be trusted to get his cash out of any poor and honest man.
The weather being warm, and the tropics close at hand, Major Hockin was dressed in a fine suit of Nankin, spruce and trim, and beautifully made, setting off his spare and active figure, which, though he was sixty-two years of age, seemed always to be ready for a game of leap-frog. "This lady has been robbed!" cried the Major; "robbed, not fifteen feet below us.
The owner of the Eastern Manor and of many ancient rights, having no means of getting at them, sold them for an "old song," which they were; and the buyer was one of the Hockin race, a shipwrecked mariner from Cornwall, who had been kindly treated there, and took a fancy accordingly.
I must be two minutes and three-quarters late. Mrs. Hockin, mount the big telescope and point it at the ramparts; keep the flag up also. Those fellows will be certain that I am up here, while I enfilade them from the western end with this fine binocular. Surprises maintain discipline. Good-by, my dear, and, Miss Castlewood, good-by. Tea at 6.30, and not too much water."
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