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Why can't you use it now, instead of wasting it in old stockings?" "I bank my money, wench," he hissingly put in. "Old stockings!" she repeated, loudly. "We could live splendidly at Wilbraham Hall on two thousand a year, and you would still be saving nearly three thousand a year." He said nothing.
Its yellow chamois gloves clung to its hands. It had no hat. It hesitated in front of the entrance. Uncle James pushed up his window. "What's amiss, lad?" he inquired, with a certain blandness of satisfaction. "I fell into the Water," said Emanuel, feebly, meaning the sheet known as Wilbraham Water, which diversified the park-like splendours of Wilbraham Hall. "How didst manage that?"
He had not known Mr. Wilbraham, but he had recognised the importance of this matter. He had arrived incognito, assumed the costume in which they now saw him, which is one the least calculated to arouse suspicion in Geneva, and set to work. After careful secret inquiries and investigations, he had found that the suspicions he had had from the outset were confirmed.
I baited the bush that rid me of Dudley Wilbraham, with his yells about emeralds and hunting down Thompson's murderer; and I've got your and his mine, in spite of your blowing up and drowning all the men I meant to hold it with. But you found out most of that, even if it was a little late. What you didn't find out, or Dudley either, was that he was right about Van Ruyne's emeralds!"
Whispers inaudible to Henry passed between the members of the party; then, one by one, the three figures descended through the open trap into the bowels of the earth, and the lid closed upon them. Henry tiptoed forward; should he follow? On the whole no. On the whole he would wait until Wilbraham, his father-in-law, M. Kratzky, and the clergyman emerged.
"Perhaps he will be at The Antelope." "No. Tonight he is with the Thompsons." "With the Thompsons." After a dozen paces he said, "The Thompsons have gone away." "Where? Why?" "They were turned out by Mr. Wilbraham on account of our broken windows." "Are you sure?" "Five families were turned out." "That's bad for Stephen," said Rickie, after a pause.
He told them in laboured language that he had come from Brennerstadt, that the races were over and the great Wilbraham diamond was lost and won. Who had won it? No one knew. Some said it was a lady. He looked again at Sylvia who turned out the pockets of her overall, and assured him that she was not the lucky one. He looked as if he suspected ridicule behind her mirth, and changed the subject.
In the wrong himself, after all these years of putting others there. Truly, Henry's hour had arrived. The President, too, had seen the new-comers now. He paused in his speaking; he was for a moment at a loss. Then, "Gentlemen, excuse me, but this is a strictly private session," he said clearly across the large room, in his faultless Oxford English. Charles Wilbraham bowed slightly and advanced.
He has disappeared in another direction. Have the kindness to show me the way out." The man led the way to the steps and up them, into a tiny ground-floor bedroom, and through that into a passage. As he unbolted a side door, Henry said to him, "You know something about Signor Wilbraham, then?" The plump little figure shrugged. "A good deal too much, certainly." "Good," said Henry.
"Marcia Wilbraham, if you dare to show that thing to Dudley, or so much as speak of it, I'll pay you out, so help me," I said; and if it was in a voice no decent woman knows a man can use, I meant it to be. It scared Marcia, anyhow, though heaven knew I didn't see how I could ever pay her out, no matter what she did. She let go of the letter, which she had to, for I had her by the wrist.
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