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He had come across a ruby of priceless quality, and, as his work was done, he intended to return at once, bringing the ruby with him in order to place it himself in our hands." "And now he has mysteriously disappeared," sneered Baumann. His meaning was very plain, and Jack leapt to his feet with pale face and shining eyes. "Sir!" he cried.
Why, don't you remember, Em, how just here only the other day she jumped on me because I went on the moonlight excursion aboard the Sophie K. Foster with Sidney Baumann? told me right to my face I ought to be spanked and put to bed for daring to run round with 'codfish aristocracy' the very words she used. What right has she, I want to know, to be criticising Sidney Baumann's people?
Lane himself was an elderly gentleman, irreproachably dressed, and the picture of an important man in the City. The door opened and the other partner came in. Jack saw that Mr. Baumann was much younger, a fat, heavy German with clean-shaven face and big, round spectacles, through which little, thick-lidded eyes peered. "Has he brought some news?" asked Baumann quickly. "What does he say?"
"Gently, Baumann, gently, you know very well that I do not agree with you," said Mr. Lane. Jack turned eagerly to the senior partner. He felt that the whining German was below both his anger and contempt. "Sir," said Jack earnestly, "if my father had in his charge a stone so immensely precious, I fear he has met with foul play." "Who knew of it?" said Mr. Lane.
Mr. Lane had too much delicacy to say that the quarrel had arisen over their respective opinions as to Thomas Haydon's honesty. Finding that he could not induce the senior partner to make public what he believed to be the theft of the great jewel, Baumann had broken off his connection with the firm. "I have a long story to tell you, but this is not the time to tell it," said Jack's father.
Haydon," said the elder man, "you must keep the peace. Baumann is speaking very wildly. I do not agree with him. I know your father too well." Respect for Mr. Lane held Jack back, and nothing else. He would dearly have liked to plant his fist on the German's foaming mouth, but he commanded himself with an immense effort, and tried to speak calmly.
The latter gazed spell-bound at its size and beauty. "A marvellous stone, Mr. Haydon!" he murmured at last. "A marvellous stone! Ah," he went on, "I wonder what Baumann would say to-day if he were confronted with this wonderful proof of his folly in leaving us." "Mr. Baumann is no longer your partner?" cried Thomas Haydon. "No," said Mr. Lane. "We disagreed, and he withdrew from the partnership."
"You yourself know, Sexton, that the right to the second cheese has never been recognized by the Oberhof," replied the Justice. "This alleged second cheese was due from the Baumann estate, which more than a hundred years ago was united under one hand with the Oberhof. Later on, the two were again divided, and the Oberhof is obligated for only one cheese."
But the painter was drifting astern, and it might easily have happened that it had been carelessly fastened, and the rope had slipped from the mooring ring and allowed the skiff to drift away. On the afternoon of the second day Jack announced his decision. "Buck," said he, "I'm going back to London. I want to see Lane & Baumann.
Baumann says that the lake at Riabba from which the spirit Uapa rises is more holy, and that he is small, and resides in a chasm in a rock whose declivity can only be passed by means of bush ropes, and in the wet season he is not get-at-able at all. He will, if given suitable offerings, reveal the future to Bubis, but Bubis only.
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