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These matters being happily settled, the trio, having been invited to dine with Guy at a neighbouring chop-house at five o'clock, rose and left the partners to continue their consultation. From that time forward Bax and Tommy Bogey remained in the service of Denham, Crumps, and Company, and Amy Russell went regularly to sea with her husband.
There came a day at last when the rats in Redwharf Lane obtained an entire holiday, doubtless to their own amazement, and revelled in almost unmolested felicity from morning till night. The office of Denham, Crumps, and Company was shut; the reason being that the head of the firm was dead. Mr Denham had died without a will.
Said he didn't mind rifle-fire, but couldn't stand shells. Admitted he left his post. He doesn't mind rifle-fire!... Well, tomorrow morning." The officer laughed grimly, and then listened for a second. There were some heavy crumps falling over Kemmel Hill, rather close, it seemed, to our wooden hut. "Damn those German gunners" said the officer. "Why can't they give us a little peace?"
I think this a good opportunity to give away some of the cash which ought to have been " Guy hesitated. He too was about to make a remark that would have been unfavourable to the character of his late uncle, so he checked himself. "What do you say to giving them a thousand pounds?" Mr Crumps said nothing to it.
She was a homeward bound ship, just arrived from Australia with a valuable cargo, and between two and three hundred passengers, many of whom were gold-diggers returning to their native land, and nearly all of whom were possessed of a considerable sum in nuggets and gold-dust. The ship was owned by the house of Denham, Crumps, and Company.
One man actually stopped in the middle of "No Man's Land" to light up again. The Germans had by now realised that the great attack had come. Shrapnel poured into our trenches with the object of keeping our supports from coming up. They had even got their "crumps" and high-explosive shrapnel into the middle of our boys before they were half-way across "No Man's Land." But still they kept on.
It was only during the following summer that the English caught up with the Germans in artillery. This, naturally, did not tend to cheer up the men. It was aggravating, to say the least, to have the other fellow sending over "crumps" without limit, and be able to send back nothing but six or eight "whizz-bangs."
It was suggested that Denham, Crumps, and Company should give something to the men of the lifeboat in acknowledgment of their services, but Denham, Crumps, and Company did not act on the suggestion!
"I never knew Aunt Rachel to be jolly but once," said Jack, under his breath; "and that was at a funeral." EIGHT years slipped by, unmarked by any important event. The Crumps were still prosperous in an humble way.
Who d'ye think the ship belonged to? You'll never guess; to your old employers, Denham, Crumps, and Company! She is named the `Trident, after the one that was lost, and old Denham insisted on her sailing on a Friday. The sailors said she would be sure to go to the bottom, but they were wrong, for we all got safe to Melbourne, after a very good voyage. "Well, I've little more to tell now.
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