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Lindsey's attack on vice and financial jobbery was perhaps the most convincing piece of muckraking ever done in this country for the very reason that it sprang from a concern about real human beings instead of abstractions about democracy or righteousness. From the point of view of the political hack, Judge Lindsey made a most distressing use of the red herring.
I tell you before ever he left this yacht, or fell out of it, or whatever's happened him, he'd changed everything from his toe to his top there's the very cap he was wearing." They all looked at each other, and Mr. Lindsey's gaze finally fastened itself on Andrew Robertson. "I suppose you don't know anything about this, my friend?" he asked.
Lindsey's fault he let out too much at the police-court. Carstairs was there he'd a seat on the bench and Mr. Lindsey frightened him. Maybe it was yon ice-ax. Mr. Lindsey's got some powerful card up his sleeve about that what it is I don't know.
It is probable, too, that the amount stated includes the cost of publishing Sketches in Canada and the United States, which must have been considerable. It is fairly to be inferred from Mr. Lindsey's account that Mackenzie was himself compelled to pay the difference between £150, the amount collected from subscribers, and £676, the amount actually expended.
Here's Sir Gilbert Carstairs in my room yonder. He's wanting a steward somebody that can keep accounts, and letters, and look after the estate, and he's been looking round for a likely man, and he's heard that Lindsey's clerk, Hugh Moneylaws, is just the sort he wants and, in short, the job's yours, if you like to take it. And, my lad, it's worth five hundred a year and a permanency, too!
They came back at midnight and broke down his door. One of the mob, lying dead on the threshold was Burril Lindsey's response. The press of our city to their honor be it noted said he did the proper thing. Respectable men in the neighborhood who knew Lindsey said the same.
"Are you good at figures and accounts?" he asked. "I've kept all Mr. Lindsey's and a good many trust accounts for the last five years," I answered, wondering what all this was about. "In fact, you're thoroughly well up in all clerical matters?" he suggested. "Keeping books, writing letters, all that sort of thing?" "I can honestly say I'm a past master in everything of that sort," I affirmed.
Lindsey's office, Hugh, and when she found you weren't there, she came down to our house, and I had to tell her that you'd come out this way on an errand for Mr. Gilverthwaite.
But if he was at Hathercleugh, what of the tale which Hollins had told us the night before? nay, that very morning, for it was after midnight when he sat there in Mr. Lindsey's parlour. And, suddenly, another idea flashed across me Was that tale true, or was the man telling us a pack of lies, all for some end?
But when I reached it, the shop was still shut, and though I waited as long as I could, Crone did not come. I knew where he lived, at the top end of the town, and I thought to meet him as I walked up to Mr. Lindsey's; but I had seen nothing of him by the time I reached our office door, so I laid the matter aside until noon, meaning to get a word with him when I went home to my dinner.
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