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He was a sprightly young fellow, gay and chipper-like, and he sez to me, confidential-like, 'Collinson, sez he, 'I'm off to the States this very night on business of importance; mebbe I'll be away a long time for years! You know, sez he, 'Mr. Key, in the Hollow! Go to him, sez he, 'and tell him ez how I hadn't time to get to see him; tell him, sez he, 'that RIVERS' you've got the name, Mr.
A hurricane had just broken, and appeared to be far more furious than that when the schooner was wrecked. "I am afraid the trees will be coming down and crushing us," cried old Grim, starting up. "It won't do to take Mr Collinson out now," said Bill; "so, if you are afraid of their coming down, I'll stay by him." Grim went to the door, followed by Jack and Tommy.
This was no publication of his actual secret, nor any indication of success, but was only a record that would in all probability remain unnoticed and unchallenged amidst the many other hopeful dreams of sanguine prospectors. But he was suddenly startled from his preoccupation. "Ye said ye war straightenin' up yer pack just now," said Collinson slowly. "Yes!" said Key almost angrily, "and I was."
But neither my words nor my action had gone unnoticed by the other end of the room. The company there fell silent awhile, and then we heard Captain Collinson talking in even, drawling tones. "'Tis strange," said he, "what hot sparks a man meets in these colonies. They should be stamped out. His Majesty pampers these d d Americans, is too lenient by far.
He went directly to the nearest police station at Church Court, Kensington. He asked to see Detective Collinson of the force. Fortunately, Detective Collinson was at the office, and soon made his appearance. The duke asked for a private interview. The detective invited him to sit down in an empty side-room.
In another second that action would have been his last, and the solitude of Seth Collinson might have remained henceforward unbroken by any mortal. But the gun of the first figure was knocked sharply upward by a second man, and the one and only shot fired that night sped harmlessly to the roof.
Uncle Dick arose softly and walked to the kitchen door. Collinson was sitting before a small kitchen stove, with a fork in his hand, gazing abstractedly before him. At the sound of his guest's footsteps he started, and the noise of preparation recommenced. Uncle Dick returned to his chair by the fire. Leaning towards the chair of the close-shaven man, he said in a lower voice: "He was off agin!"
Collinson and Lock, who have recently acquired this firm's premises and business, were both brought up in the house as young men, and left some thirty odd years ago for Herrings, of Fleet Street, whom they succeeded about 1870.
I regret," he added, with a perfunctory cough, "that poor Barker is dead. He was not such an exemplary husband as you are, my dear Collinson, and I fear was not all that Mrs. Barker could have wished; enough that he succumbed from various excesses, and did not leave me Mrs. Barker's present address.
And so it was, unconsciously, between Comyn and me. I forgot presently that I was not dealing with Captain Collinson, and my feelings went into my sword. Comyn began to press me, nor did I give back.
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