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"If you'll excuse me," said Jake, "I'll jest git along ahead, and see what game them folks is puttin' up on Andy. Likely as not he's weighin' 'em out flour at two cents, with it costin' me two and a half on freightin' alone. I'll hev supper ready time you ketch up." He was gone at once, getting away at a sharp pace, till presently they could see him swimming the stream.
But I sez, "Every penny is money right out of the people's pockets; every dollar the people pay into the liquor traffic that gives a few cents into the treasury, is costin' the people ten times that dollar in the loss intemperance entails, loss of labor, by the inability of drunken men to do anything but wobble and stagger, loss of wealth by the enormous losses of property and taxation, of alms-houses, mad-houses, jails, police forces, paupers' coffins, and the diggin' of thousands and thousands of graves that are filled yearly by them that reel into 'em."
When it comes time for the Fall cleanin, you'll do every stroke yourself, to pay for all this trouble and expense. Do you know what it's costin'? Four dollars and a half of good money! I should think you'd be ashamed!" "But, Aunt Hitty " began the girl, pleadingly. "Stop! Don't you 'Aunt Hitty' me," continued the angry voice. "You needn't tell me you didn't fall off that ladder a purpose.
"And you what are you going to do?" he asked presently. "I shall go back to my old rooms for a time, and take Costin with me; he'll be pleased, anyway, with the new arrangement. It was really funny the way he tried to congratulate me when I told him I was going to be married " He broke off, remembering that afternoon, and the way Cynthia had come into the room as they were talking.
But I says, "Every penny they give, is money right out of the people's pockets; and every dollar that the people pay into the liquor-traffic, that they may give a few cents of it into the Treasury, is costin' the people three times that dollar, in the loss that intemperance entails, loss of labor, by the inability of drunken men to do any thing but wobble and stagger round; loss of wealth, by all the enormous losses of property and of taxation, of almshouses and madhouses, jails, police forces, paupers' coffins, and the digging of the thousands and thousands of graves that are filled yearly by them that reel into 'em."
But it was the very same night that Costin, Jimmy Challoner's man, presented himself at the rooms in the unfashionable part of Bloomsbury and asked anxiously for Mr. Sangster. Sangster heard his voice in the narrow passage outside and recognised it. He left his supper a very meagre supper of bread and cheese, as funds were low that week and went to the door. "Do you want me, Costin?"
"I'm sure it was laughter," Barby said solemnly. "Captain Costin was laughing at mortals who dared to enter his tomb." Rick glanced at his sister, hoping she was joking. She wasn't. "I'm not certain," he admitted. "It all happened at once. I mean, the torch went out, there was a sort of sudden breeze, and we got out of there into the daylight."
Jimmy stifled an oath under his breath as he shut the door. Sangster was the last man he wished to see at the present moment. He kept his eyes averted as he came forward. "Hallo!" he said. "Been here long?" "All the evening. Thought you'd sure to be in. Costin said you'd be in to dinner, he thought." "I meant to . . . stayed with the Wyatts, though." Jimmy helped himself to a whiskey.
He would have given ten years of his life to have been able to believe that it was something else quite different. "Well, I'll look in again in the morning," he said. "And if you want me, send round, of course." "Yes, sir." Costin helped Sangster on with his coat and saw him to the door; he was dying to ask what had become of Mrs. Jimmy, but he did not like to.
Nate said he never had no use for pets lazy critters, eatin' up the victuals and costin' money but Olivia was dead gone on 'em.
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