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Caldigate shivered, but sat and listened in silence. But Mr. Bollum had had dealings, many dealings, with Timothy Crinkett. Indeed he was ready to say that Timothy Crinkett was his uncle. He was not particularly proud of his uncle, but nevertheless Timothy Crinkett was his uncle. Didn't Mr. Caldigate think that something ought to be done for Timothy Crinkett?
Henniker's they went, and there, stretched out at length on the wooden veranda before the house, they found the hero of the potatoes, the man who had taken them down to Crinkett's house. He seemed to be fast asleep, but as they came up on the boards, he turned himself on his elbow, and looked at them. 'Well, mates, he said, 'what do you think of Tom Crinkett now you've seen him?
To Crinkett it appeared that Caldigate was simply anxious to save his money. 'I do not know that I can say anything else to you just at present. The bargain was a fair bargain, and you have no ground for any claim. You come to me with some mysterious threat 'You understand, said Crinkett. 'I care nothing for your threats. I can only bid you go and do your worst. 'That's what we intend.
'Married Hester Bolton? I thought he would! Bigamy! Euphemia Smith! Married before! Certainly not at the diggings. 'He wasn't married up at Ahalala? asked the doctor. 'To Euphemia Smith? I was there when they quarrelled, and when she went into partnership with Crinkett. I am sure there was no such marriage. John Caldigate in prison for bigamy? And he paid them twenty thousand pounds?
They went down about four hundred feet, and as they were reaching the bottom Crinkett remarked that it was 'a goodish deep hole all to belong to one man. 'Yes, he added as Caldigate extricated himself from the truck, 'and there's a precious lot more gold to come out of it yet, I can tell you.
It was not paid till we came over. 'But if it had been paid then you would have married Mr. Crinkett? Sir John's manner as he asked the question was so gentle and so soft that it was felt by all to contain an apology for intruding on so delicate a subject. But when she hesitated, he did, after a pause, renew his inquiry in another form.
'I will tell you what I mean to do, Mr. Bollum, said Caldigate, very gravely. 'It cannot be said that I owe Mr. Crinkett a shilling. 'Certainly not. But it comes very near owing, doesn't it? 'So near that I mean to pay it. 'That's right. 'So near that I don't like to feel that I have got his money in my pocket. As far as money goes, I have been a fortunate man.
They had, on one hand or the other as they turned, the long, straight, deep dike which had been cut at right angles to the Middle Wash; and around, the fields were flat, plashy, and heavy-looking with the mud of February. But Crinkett for a while did not cease to admire everything. 'And them are all yourn? he said, pointing to a crowd of corn-stacks standing in the haggard. 'Yes, they're mine.
Then there came a threat, not from Crinkett, but from Mrs. Euphemia Smith. And the letter was not signed Euphemia Smith, but Euphemia Caldigate. And the letter was as follows: 'In spite of all your treachery to me I do not wish to ruin you, or to destroy your young wife, by proving myself in England to have been married to you at Ahalala.
They had now got back for the second time to the spot at which the way up to the house at Folking turned off from the dike. Here he paused and spoke what were intended to be his last words. 'I have nothing more to say, Crinkett. I will not promise anything myself. A threatened man should never give way. You know that yourself. But if you will go to my brother-in-law I will get him to see you.
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