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Then they present themselves to the magistrates, and make the accusation; and, upon that, you pay the money. Of course it will come out at the trial that you paid it immediately after this renewed application from Bollum. It would have been better to have defied them. 'I did defy them, said John Caldigate.
It ain't nice for you to have me sitting here. I'm well aware of that. There's the choice of evils. You know what that means. I'm a-putting it about as fair as a man can put anything. It's a pity you didn't stump up the money before. But it's not altogether quite too late yet. 'I'll give you an answer to-morrow, Mr. Bollum. 'I must be in town to-night.
'I will tell you what I mean to do, Mr. Bollum, said Caldigate, very gravely. 'It cannot be said that I owe Mr. Crinkett a shilling. 'Certainly not. But it comes very near owing, doesn't it? 'So near that I mean to pay it. 'That's right. 'So near that I don't like to feel that I have got his money in my pocket. As far as money goes, I have been a fortunate man.
The whole story of the money had been made public, and of course there were various opinions about it. The prevailing idea was, that an attempt had been made to buy off the first wife, but that the first wife had been clever enough to get the money without having to go. Caldigate was thought to have been very foolish; on which subject Bollum once expressed himself strongly to a friend.
'Clever! he said; 'Caldigate clever! The greatest idiot I ever came across in my life! I'd made it quite straight for him, so that there couldn't have been a wrinkle. But he wouldn't have it. There are men so soft that one can't understand 'em. To do Bollum justice it should be said that he was most anxious to induce his uncle and the woman to leave the country when they had got the money.
When Caldigate heard this, he looked round involuntarily to see whether the door was closed. 'We're tiled, of course, said Bollum. Caldigate with a frown nodded his head, and Bollum went on. He hadn't come there, he said, to speak of some recent troubles of which he had heard. He wasn't the man to shove his nose into other people's matters. It was nothing to him who was married to whom.
The thing would, in my mind, be so disreputable that I should have to throw up the case. I could not defend you. It was clear to him that Bollum had understood his own side of the question in deprecating any reference to an attorney. The money should have been paid and the four witnesses sent away without a word to any one, if any attempt in that direction were made at all.
You have combined to rob me of all that I value most by the basest of lies; but not on that account have I abstained from doing what I believe to be an act of justice. Then he left the room, and paying for the use of it to the woman at the bar, walked off with his friend Gray, leaving Crinkett, Bollum, and the woman still within the house. Waiting For The Trial
They'll start at once. This is the 12th April, isn't it? Tuesday the 12th? Caldigate assented. 'The old Goldfinder leaves Plymouth this day week. From this he was sure that Bollum had heard all the story from Euphemia Smith herself, or he would not have talked of the 'old' Goldfinder. 'Let them have the bills handed to them on board, and they'll go. Let me have the duplicates here.
If only he could make the attorney believe that Hester was in truth his wife, still, even yet, there might be assistance on that side. But he went to Mr. Seely first, the hour of his appointment requiring that it should be so. But Mr. Seely was altogether opposed to any arrangement with Mr. Bollum. 'No good was ever done, he said, 'by buying off witnesses.
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