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You must simply run!" Robert sprang to his feet in a moment. "Give me a shilling," he said. "I'll make it up as I go along. Keep some tinned pears for me." "I'll come too," said Jack, and off they bolted. They reached the post-office just in time to despatch this message: "Avory Gables Chiswick just finished glorious brisket all well love."
It seemed brutal to be wading into the bill of fare with poor old Bicky headed for the breadline. When I got back old Chiswick had gone to bed, but Bicky was there, hunched up in an arm-chair, brooding pretty tensely, with a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth and a more or less glassy stare in his eyes.
Well, I have secured another for the rest of the season, and you must not talk about extravagance, please." "Very well," said Val, with a smile. "For what hour have you ordered dinner?" "Nine o'clock." "Nine o'clock! That's awkward and late." "Why awkward? You may have to wait for me even then. It is impossible to say when we shall get home from Chiswick. All the world will be there."
Hill knowed right enough there wasn't no Twelfth Cavalry nowhere, and that the boys at Wingate was A and F troops of the Fourth; but he ketched on to the way she was giving it to the old gent and so he give her a dig in the ribs, and said he'd knowed Captain Chiswick intimate, and he was as good a fellow as ever was, and it was a blame pity he was killed.
She give him a dig in the ribs with her elbow as much as to tell him he wasn't to ask no such questions and said back to him her dear husband was Captain Chiswick of the Twelfth Cavalry; and it had been a big come down for him, she said, when he got his commission in the Regulars, after he'd been a Volunteer brigadier-general in the war.
To hire a carriage-horse or a riding-horse is easy enough, but a cart-horse as strong as a steam-engine is more difficult to find. Mr. Lenox decided to advertise, and he therefore sent the following advertisement to the Daily Telegram: "Wanted To hire for a month at least, an exceedingly powerful, gentle white horse to draw a caravan. Reply by letter. L., 'The Gables. Chiswick."
Since he had stopped off at Chiswick for the purpose of looking this property over before foreclosing the mortgage on it he concluded that he might as well take the Cove road; he could go around by the shore afterward he had not forgotten the way even in forty years and so on up through the old spruce wood in Alec Martin's field if the spruces were there still and the field still Alec Martin's to his cousin's place.
They had been enemies from childhood, and once in a bout of wrestling at the Chiswick school Neil had thrown him by an unfair trick and taunted him continually thereafter on his defeat. Robert had made a compact with himself that some day he would pay Neil Jameson back. He had not forgotten it he never forgot such things but he had never seen or heard of Neil Jameson after leaving Chiswick.
Then through Chiswick, over Hammersmith Bridge, into the heart of London. All London to cross. Never had it seemed longer. And the great city was smitten by a blight. It was not a fog, for one could see clearly a hundred yards ahead.
"No, I fancy Chiswick is an address which is more likely to find him. If you will come with me to Chiswick to-night, Lestrade, I'll promise to go to the Italian Quarter with you to-morrow, and no harm will be done by the delay. And now I think that a few hours' sleep would do us all good, for I do not propose to leave before eleven o'clock, and it is unlikely that we shall be back before morning.
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