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The gems could be sent over, a few at a time, to Amsterdam; and there sold to merchants who would care nothing whence they came; and the partners of Diggory Beggs, in the venture of the Swan, would be only too glad to receive their money back again, and to ask no questions as to how it had been obtained. And so matters were carried out.
He was wearing a clean collar and new necktie, and ate only four pieces of bread and butter, besides his bacon. "He's shown me the letter," whispered Diggory to Jack Vance; "only I promised I wouldn't say what was in it, but it ends up with a piece of poetry as long as this table!"
Sneak out of the house directly after evening 'prep, and meet me in the playground, and I'll show you what it is." At the time appointed Acton ran down the path, and found Diggory waiting for him by the shed. "Look," said the latter, "I've cut a little tiny slit with my knife in each door-post, about three feet from the ground, and I'm going to stretch this piece of black cotton between them.
Nevertheless, mounting the last slope was such hard labour that Mugford had to turn to and "work his passage," by every now and again taking a spell at the treadles. "Look here!" said Diggory at length: "don't you think we've gone far enough? we shan't be back in time for tea." "Oh, I forgot," answered the captain. "We'll see. Stand by your anchor! Let go-o-o!"
"There's no one about," whispered Vance; "I don't believe old Noaks has told them." "Wait a minute," answered Diggory. "I'll see if I can stir any of them;" and so saying, he knelt up, and cried in an audible voice, "Now, then, are you all ready?"
Those words of Thomasin, which seemed so little, but meant so much, remained in the ears of Diggory Venn: "Help me to keep him home in the evenings." On this occasion Venn had arrived on Egdon Heath only to cross to the other side he had no further connection with the interests of the Yeobright family, and he had a business of his own to attend to.
"I can't say," returned Crump, "so it's no use asking me. I only knows that Noaks is a-going to do it; 'drown 'em all in a bucket of water, was what he said. Remember you promised to tell nothink about me, that's all. Good-night, mister!" The stranger vanished in the darkness, and Diggory dropped down from the wall. "Here's a pretty go!" he remarked. "What are we to do? there's no time to lose.
Diggory clutched the door-knob as though it were the handle of a galvanic battery, while Mugford and Vance seized each other by the arm and literally gasped for breath. The stillness had been broken by a slight sound, as of something falling inside the attic, and this was followed a moment later by a shrill, unearthly scream.
I'll go for one, and you and Vance toss up." This suggestion was accepted with some reluctance, as both boys were anxious to take part in the adventure. Acton's word, however, was law, and eventually Diggory was chosen by fate to be his companion.
There was the sound of the key turning in the lock of Mr. Blake's door. "Cave!" whispered Mugford. "Tell him about it," added Vance; and giving Diggory a push, they all three darted into their room just as the master emerged from his, arrayed in dressing-gown and slippers.
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