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"Sure thing!" says I. "We found a contraband Irish pig in Herman Bauer's back yard. "Wha-a-at?" he demands. "If the pig had been a bomb, and its tail a time-fuse," says I, "it would have wrecked our main works. As it, is, we've had a narrow escape. But I don't think Cecil will bother us any more. He's too good for the army, anyway. He ought to be writin' for the movies."
"I want to borrow a hundred thousand pounds." "Scott! Come, who are you?" "Nobody that you know." "What is your name?" "Cecil Rhodes." "No, I don't remember hearing the name before. Now then just for curiosity's sake what has sent you to me on this extraordinary errand?" "The intention to make a hundred thousand pounds for you and as much for myself within the next sixty days." "Well, well, well.
The money was to get them their longed-for piano, it seems, and now it's gone." "But how did it happen, Cecil?" "Well, Mr. Carroll says that Mrs. Carroll handed the pocketbook back to him at the gate yesterday, and he dropped it in the inside pocket of his over-coat " "I saw him do it," I cried. "Yes, and then, before he went to be photographed, he hung his coat up in the hall.
"Why, it is not knee-deep across the shallow," said Cecil. "Let us cross again," said Sam: "he MAY be drowned, but I don't think it." In a quarter of an hour from starting they found, slightly up the stream, one of the child's socks, which in his hurry to dress he had forgotten. Here brave Rover took up the trail like a bloodhound, and before evening stopped at the foot of a lofty cliff.
He bequeathed to her a sum of five thousand pounds a sufficient portion, as he considered, for that rank in life and to Mr. Cecil Burleigh he bequeathed the handsome fortune that it was intended she should bring him in marriage.
Cecil Barker's tall, loose-jointed figure was a familiar one in the main street of Birlstone village; for he was a frequent and welcome visitor at the Manor House. He was the more noticed as being the only friend of the past unknown life of Mr. Douglas who was ever seen in his new English surroundings.
To negotiate with Government in England was to bribe, even as at Paris or Madrid. Gold was the only passkey to justice, to preferment, or to power. Yet the foreign subsidies to the English court were, after all, of but little avail at that epoch. No man had influence but Cecil, and he was too proud, too rich, too powerful to be bribed.
Before she could rewind, message number two began: "Hon, this is Justin!" Julia gasped and dropped Cecil, who landed perfectly and returned to rubbing her shins. "Don't believe any messages you get about me unless they're from me! I shot a fella who got into my house... well, sort of shot him. I did and I didn't. He was there one minute and then Poof!
They met on the Righi; and nothing is more comical than to near him describe the ladies' fraternization over female doctors and lawyers, till they rushed into each other's arms, and the Clio promised to come down on a crusade and convert you all." "There are two ways of telling a story," said Cecil. "No wonder the gentlemen quake!" said Mrs. Poynsett. "I don't," said Frank, boyishly.
Thanks to the information given him by Cecil during their walk through the Haitian jungle, after the parachute descent, Stuart recognized mahogany, lignum vitae, granadilla, sweet cedar, logwood, sandalwood, red sanders and scores of other hardwood trees of the highest commercial value, standing untouched.
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