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Alfred panted, and his eyes roved wildly in search of a way to escape and follow her; she could not be far off. "Anybody else, Frank?" inquired Mrs. Archbold. "No more ladies, madam; but there was a young gentleman all in black. I think he was a clergyman or a butler." "Ah, that was her husband that is to be; that was Mr. Hurd. She can go nowhere without him, not even to see her old beau."
I lost money myself," said Hurd, with a grimace, "in order to make Hay think I was another pigeon to pluck. But the mention of the Christian name on so short an acquaintance showed me that Hay and Miss Krill had met before. I expect the meeting at Pash's office was a got-up game." "You said that before, Billy. How you repeat yourself! Yes.
Two or three other speeches followed, and among them a few stumbling words from Hurd. Marcella approved herself and applauded him, as she recognised a sentence or two taken bodily from the Labour Clarion of the preceding week. Then a resolution pledging the meeting to support the Liberal candidate was passed unanimously amid evident excitement.
Hurd would read a sheet of figures telling how many million miles the company had carried one passenger during the previous month such reports are always reduced to absurdities and would inform them of such plans as he chose to intrust to their confidence, and would then suggest the declaration of the usual dividend. To this the directors would unanimously assent.
The man was dressed in blue serge, carried his large hands slightly clenched, and rolled in his gait. Hurd noted these things down, and had little doubt but what he would recognize the man if he came across him. Connecting him with the individual who had pawned the brooch at Stowley, Hurd fancied he might be Jessop.
"We'll have them to-night after dinner," said Hurd, nodding; "but now, I suppose, you've made your fortune." "No," said the captain, gloomily, "not what you'd call money. I've got a stand-by, though," and he winked. "Ah! Married to a rich wife?" "Not me. I've had enough of marriage, having been the skipper of a mermaid with a tongue.
Shall I lift your head a little?" He did not answer, though she thought he tried, and she was struck by the blueness under the eyes and nose. Hurriedly she felt his tiny feet. They were quite cold. "Mrs. Hurd!" she cried, rousing her in haste; "dear Mrs. Hurd, come and see Willie!" The mother sprang up bewildered, and, hurrying across the room, threw herself upon him.
"That's your work," rejoined Cole. "I won't attempt to offer suggestions. Nearly every insurance broker in Boston has at one time or another had a go at John M. Hurd. Boring him to death has been unsuccessfully tried several times, but as you are in the family, you may of course have superior facilities to any of your predecessors. Blackmail might accomplish something.
Two little figures came pattering up the street in the moist October dusk, a third, panted behind. The girls ran in to their mother chattering and laughing. Hurd lifted the boy in his arm. "Where you bin, Will? What were yo out for in this nasty damp? I've brought yo a whole pocket full o' chestnuts, and summat else too." He carried him in to the fire and sat him on his knees.
Bhungees meant sweepers, and Bhats bards, both of which classes were spared by the stranglers. "You killed that man. Now, who told you to kill him?" "I know nozzin', I no kill. Bhowanee no take one-eye mans." For want of an interpreter Hurd found it difficult to carry on the conversation.
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