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When I made that sharp turn as the second shot was fired, I could see the outline of the bank just under water, and turned to avoid it." "It was a mercy you altered our course just at that moment, Compton." "Wasn't it? It was touch and go. We stood to be run down or knocked into smithereens in another minute;" and Venning shook Compton's hand.
The Zanzibari chuckled. "You want know, eh?" "We don't care. One black fellow does not matter," said Compton, coolly. "You brute!" muttered Venning, but stopped as Compton's hand gripped him. The Zanzibari chuckled again. "What you give, eh, if cut loose that Muata?" "What do you say?" "You pay me? Good. In night Muata is loose. He run up river.
"Come with me, Elizabeth," he said; "we will go out to the cashier's cage and get you fixed up." They entered Bince's office, which adjoined Compton's. "Wait here a minute, Elizabeth," said Bince. "How much do you want? I'll get it for you and bring it back. I want to see you a moment alone before you go." She told him how much she wanted, and he was back shortly with the currency.
Compton's room, and presented the papers, he was again rewarded with an encouraging commendation. "This is very well written very well written indeed, and shows great painstaking," he said. George felt he could have shaken hands with both principal and manager for those few words. "How cheap a kind word is," he thought, "to those who give it; but it is more precious than gold to the receiver.
Weston, with her apron on and sleeves tucked up, was busy in her domestic affairs. "Such splendid news!" repeated George. "I have been down to Mr. Compton's with the letter Uncle Henry gave me, in which he said I wanted a situation, and should be glad if Mr. Compton could help me; and, sure enough, I was able to see him, and he is such a kind, fatherly old gentlemen, mother.
I have not invited the Prince over; and I do not believe that a single one of my brethren has done so." "I am sure I have not," said Crewe of Durham. "Nor I," said Cartwright of Chester. Crewe and Cartwright might well be believed; for both had sate in the Ecclesiastical Commission. When Compton's turn came, he parried the question with an adroitness which a Jesuit might have envied.
Compton's stenographer and his worked, was addressed to Miss Edith Hudson. "Is Mr. Torrance down yet?" he asked. "Yes," replied the girl, "he has been here some time. Do you wish to see him?"
"Murray's not such a fool, after all," he soliloquized. "He's framing an alibi before he starts." With the note in his hand, Bince entered Compton's office, where he found the latter dictating to Edith Hudson. "Look at this thing!" exclaimed Bince, laying the note before Compton. "What do you suppose it means?" Compton read it, and his brows knitted.
Refreshments were served us, among which were some hot-house peaches, ethereally delicate as if they had grown in the Elysian Fields and been stolen from a banquet of angels. After this we went out on the lawn, where, at Lady William Compton's request, I recited one or two poems; the only time I did such a thing in England.
Compton's room, a "Bradshaw's Railway Guide;" and as he had not seen one there previously, he imagined it must have been brought in by George, with his carpet-bag and other things, and there left. One page of the book was turned down; Hardy had eagerly opened it, and found it referred to the departures from the Great Western Station. "I'll go on at once to that station," he thought.
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