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"It sure beats faro," was his comment one day, when, after keeping the Dawson speculators in a fever for a week by alternate bulling and bearing, he showed his hand and cleaned up what would have been a fortune to any other man. Other men, having made their strike, had headed south for the States, taking a furlough from the grim Arctic battle.
Bulling during the early part of the trip to secure Iola for a tete-a-tete, she called out across the deck in the ears of the whole company, "See here, Bulling, I won't have you trying to monopolise our star. We're out for a good time and we're going to have it. Miss Lane is not your property. She belongs to us all." Thenceforth Dr.
Charrington, it was not you I was afraid of, it was what Dr. Bulling " Again Iola hesitated. "Don't bother telling me," said Mrs. Duff Charrington, observing her confusion. "No doubt Bulling gave you to understand that he worked me to invite you. Confess now." There was a shrewd twinkle in her keen grey eye. "Bulling is a liar, a terrible liar, with large possibilities of self-appreciation.
The plain "Colonel Belcher" of his first few months in New York, grew into the "General," so that Wall street knew him, at last, by that title, without the speaking of his name. All made way for "the General" whenever he appeared. "The General" was "bulling" this stock, and "bearing" that.
Boyle is a gentleman in whom I have the fullest confidence. He would do what he thought right." "He will probably correct his judgments before he interferes with Dr. Bulling again." The doctor's tone was insolently sarcastic. "Dr. Bulling?" "Yes. He was grossly insulting and Dr. Bulling was forced to chastise him." "Chastise! Mr. Boyle!" cried Iola, her anger throwing her off her guard.
Uncle Scripio relinquished the suggestion of "dodges" in despair. He was, as usual, brimful of projects, making money by the thousand, and bearing or bulling, as the case might be, with genuine American enthusiasm.
Bulling," said Iola, her voice ringing clear and firm in contrast with Bulling's agitated tone, "he is a friend of mine, a very dear friend, and, I assure you, very sane." As she spoke she waved her hand to Barney, but there was no answering sign. "Your friend, is he?" said Mrs. Duff Charrington. "Then doubtless very sane. Does he want you, Miss Lane? Shall we go back for him?"
"That she is," said Smead enthusiastically, "and thoroughly straight, too!" "Oh," said Foxmore, "there's no lane but has a turning. And trust Bulling," he added coarsely, "for finding it out." "Well," said Bulling, with a knowing smile, "this little Lane is straight. Of course there may be a slight deflection. Nature's lines run in curves, you know." And again his wit provoked applauding laughter.
But before the laughter had quite faded out a voice was heard, clear and cutting. "Dr. Bulling, you are a base liar!" The words were plainly audible to every man in the room. A dead silence fell upon the company. "What?" said the doctor, sitting up straight, as if he had not heard aright. "I say you are a cowardly liar!" "What the deuce do you mean?"
"I am really a little uncertain at present," replied Iola. "Oh, you must, you know! Mrs. Duff Charrington will be awfully cut up, not to speak of Bulling. He had no end of trouble to bring it off." "You mean, to persuade Mrs. Duff Charrington to invite me?" "Oh, well," said the doctor, plunging wildly, "I wouldn't put it that way.
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