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"That's all you get," Maudie burst out indignantly "all you get for packin' his stuff down to the landin', to have it all ready for him, and worryin' yourself into shoe-strings for fear he'd miss the boat." Mac, O'Flynn, and Potts condoled with the Colonel, while the fire of the old feud flamed and died. "Yes," the Colonel admitted, "I'd give five hundred dollars for a ticket on that steamer."
"Mind what you're about, Mac," growled Potts. "You know he could lick the stuffin' out o' you." The ex-schoolmaster produced some sort of indignant sound in his throat and turned, as if he meant to go out. The Colonel came a little nearer. Mac flung up his head and squared for battle. Potts, in a cold sweat, dropped a lot of tinware with a rattle, while the Colonel said, "No, no.
Potts stirred the fire in a shower of sparks, picked up a book and flung it down, searched through the sewing-kit for something that wasn't lost, and then went to the door to look at the weather so he said. O'Flynn sat dozing by the fire. He was in the way of the washing-up. "Stir your stumps, Jimmie," said the Colonel, "and get us a bucket of water."
Mallard's turn of luck downward to the deadly drop had come under Potts' first inspection of the table. Admiring his friend's audacity, deploring his rashness, reproving his persistency, Potts allowed his verdict to go by results; for it was clear that Mallard and Fortune were in opposition. Something like real awe of the tremendous encounter kept him from a plunge or a bet.
Setter, that I am under the necessity of leaving London to-night, to attend the trial of Potts and Cameron to-morrow." "As a witness for the Crown. I am, your grace." "I shall get back to London as soon as possible. In the meantime, I wish you to pursue your investigations with the utmost diligence, sparing no expense.
But the high flat rim of the dish was plentifully garnished by fingers of corn-bread, and the gravy was "galoppshus," so Potts said. Salmon P., having appeased the pangs of hunger, returned to his perplexed study of Benham. "Did I understand you to say you came into this country to prospect?" "Came down the Never-Know-What and prospected a whole summer at Forty Mile."
Henrietta you're sure it was she? German girls have much the same colouring. The gentleman with her must have been one of the Court equerries. They were driving to some chateau or battlefield the admiral wanted to inspect. Good-looking man? Military man? 'Oh! the man! pretty fair, I dare say, Potts rejoined. 'If it wasn't Henrietta Fakenham, I see with the back of my head. German girl!
This man Potts was not ruined. He seemed to have grown possessed of a colossal fortune. When I reproached him with being the author of my calamity, and insisted that be ought to share it with me, the scoundrel laughed in my face. "The Hall and the estates were sold, for, unfortunately, though they have been in our family for ages, they were not entailed.
Potts and Valerie, and Jack, Mrs. Wake and Mrs. Potts brought the circle round to Sir Basil, a neat gradation of affinities. Jack, in a glance, had seen that Imogen had been passionately weeping; he could well imagine that grief. But before her pallid face and sunken eyes he knew that his heart was hardened.
Potts went down not long after. It was the fourth day of the run. Miscellaneous callers thronged the place, but the amounts were not large. In two hours not more than five thousand were paid out. At length a man came in with a carpet-bag. He pulled out a vast quantity of notes. "How much?" asked the clerk, blandly. "Thirty thousand pounds," said the man. Potts heard this and came out.
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