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"Here, come, let's go round at once, now," said Derrick, as the performance came to an end and the band played "God save the King." He led her round to the performers' tent, and almost ran against Mr. Bloxford. Needless to say, he wore his fur coat. At sight of Derrick's smiling face and outstretched hand, Mr.
But Derrick knew, for as he had stood looking down at the man, he had remembered a certain young man who had been saved from playing the fool by a girl; and the remembrance would never leave him, would always make him merciful towards the folly of other men. Mr. Bloxford was not wearing his fur coat, but he nodded to the garment, where it hung on a chair behind him. "Help me on with it, will you?
Derrick pleaded for the man, and Bloxford yielded, but with a shrug of the shoulders and a dissenting shake of the head. "All right," he said, grudgingly. "It's up to you, of course. But don't you forget what I told you when you and he had a shindy on board. He's the kind of man who'll wait and lay for you when he gets a chance." Derrick laughed easily as he proceeded to count the money.
But I see there's no use talking." He thrust his hand in his breast-pocket, in which, with his love of ostentation, he always carried a bundle of notes and some loose gold, and, as he held out his hand to Derrick, there was something crisp in it. Derrick shook the hand and pressed back the note; he could not speak for a minute; then he said, rather huskily: "It's all right, Mr. Bloxford.
"Am I badly hurt?" asked Derrick, anxiously. "Am I going to be laid up? Awful nuisance!" "No," she said; "it was your collar-bone. It is all right now. It struck your head, too. That's why you were unconscious. We brought a doctor along with us. He'll be here presently. They wanted to take you to the hospital, but Mr. Bloxford all of us couldn't leave you behind."
"I'll go and see what is the proprietor's name?" "Bloxford. Bloxford's Mammoth Circus; the largest on Earth; see Press notices. But, of course, you know," replied Mr. Sidcup, with some surprise. "The old man's all right, as you'll find. Curious customer; but knows his business. He's not much to look at; but he's a devil to work, and he's a born manager.
How will that suit you?" "It suits me very well, thank you, Mr. Bloxford," said Dene, and away went his hand to the talisman in his pocket. "Then fix it so," said Mr. Bloxford. "And mind and keep your eye on Jackman," he added, as he trotted off.
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