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"But the whole lot of it is an incubus, for I can't use it, and I don't want to make a show." "Take a glass yourself, my man," he said, as I got him the sherry a fresh bottle from the outer cellar. "Ha! at a moderate computation that old gold plate is worth a hundred thousand pounds; and a hundred thousand pounds at only three per cent in the funds, Burdon, would be three thousand a year.
"Wait here a minute, please," said Mary, that note in her voice more marked than before. She arose and went in the house, and Wally guessed that she had gone to telephone the factory. For a while they couldn't hear her, except when she said "I want to speak to Mr. Burdon Woodward yes Mr. Burdon Woodward " They could faintly hear her talking then, but toward the end her voice came full and clear.
He was caught, for certain: nevertheless, his wariness did not desert him. "You took me rather sudden, Mister Walter." "That's fairly evident. Maize, eh?" He scooped a few grains into his palm and sniffed at them. "Better maize than my father's, no doubt. Where's Macklin?" "Somewhere's about. I say, Mister Walter " "And Jim Burdon?" "Near abouts, too. Be you goin' to tell on me?"
"I know the old saying but the trouble is I know Uncle Stanley, too, and that's what bothers me..." At this point I had meant to tell you more of Wally Cabot most perfect, most charming of lovers but first I find that I must describe a passage which took place one morning between Mary and Uncle Stanley's son Burdon.
After many other observations, he concluded by moving, "that the year 1793 be substituted in the place of the year 1800." In the course of the debate, which followed, Mr. Burdon stated his conviction of the necessity of immediate abolition; but he would support the amendment, as the shortest of the terms proposed. Mr. Robert Thornton would support it also, as the only choice left him.
Shortly after the inquest Charley Hannaford disappeared with his family, and this lent colour to their gossip. But Jim Burdon, who had been the first to arrive on the scene, told his plain tale, and, for the rest, kept his counsel. And so did Father Halloran and the Squire. How pleasant it is to have money, heigho! How pleasant it is to have money!
Burdon had a new car, a swift, piratical craft which had been built to his order, and sometimes when he called at the house on the hill for Helen, Mary amused herself by thinking that he only needed a little flag-pole and a Jolly Roger a skirted coat and a feathered hat and he would be the typical younger son of romance, scouring the main in search of Spanish gold.
Unless the four women who are working in our department are laid off at once, the men in our shop will quit." "Just a moment, please," said Mary, ringing. "Joe, will you please tell Mr. Woodward, Sr., that I would like to see him?" "He's just gone out," said Joe. "Mr. Burdon, then." "Mr. Burdon sent word he wouldn't be down today. He's gone to New York." Mary thought that over. "Joe," she said.
Mary hardly knew what to think. "You're sure it has nothing to do with this?" she asked, indicating the fragments in the waste-basket. "Not the least connection! Besides," he argued, "you and I know very well don't we? that with all his faults, Burdon would never do anything like that " "Of course he wouldn't!" "Very well.
Burdon had not only thrown open their beautiful grounds to these poor people, but had accommodated some Chinese families in rooms in the palace under their own. The apathy or calm of the Chinese women as they sat houseless amidst their possessions was very striking.
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