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Then Beamish's voice went on: "I have talked this business over with Benson, and he makes a SUGGESTION which I think is an improvement on our plan. He thinks we should have our general meeting in London immediately after I have interviewed Madeleine Coburn.
"And, let's see; I forget what the little favour was you wanted the brute to do for you?" "I want you to do no favour!" cried Wyndham, passionately. "No? Not even to allow you to go to the doctor and tell him about Beamish's?" "No; not even that! I wouldn't do it now. He may now find out what he likes." "It might interest him if I went and told him a few things about you?" said Silk.
To begin with he had seen Hilliard secretly, and learned at first hand all that that young man could tell him. Next he had made sure that the finger-prints found on the speaking tube were not those of Mr. Coburn, and he remained keenly anxious to obtain impressions from Captain Beamish's fingers to compare with the former.
Why, America was but three thousand miles distant from the old country, compared with Australia's thirteen thousand, and in America land was to be had in plenty at five shillings per acre. As to Mr. Beamish's idea of the gold giving out, the geological formation of the goldfields rendered that improbable.
Ever since the day of their first meeting at Beamish's Family Hotel, Polly had thought her husband the handsomest man in the world. And the best, as well. He had his peculiarities, of course; but so had every husband; and it was part of a wife's duty to study them, to adapt herself to them, or to endeavour to tone them down.
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