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I have heard you mention that name." "Yes, indeed I did. Knew old Simon Dockett himself, and saw him often. My, he was a cranky cuss, if ever there was one. He had a whale of a tongue, and knew how to use it." "Did you know anything about his family?" "Not much. He never married, as I guess no woman would have him. But I know for sure that he has a nephew.
Dockett, as he looked inquiringly into the face of his client. "Handed to me?" he said, in a tone the most innocent imaginable. "Yes," returned Hardy, with much earnestness. "Don't you recollect the package containing seven thousand dollars, that I placed in your hands to keep for me, yesterday, while I went before the commissioners?" The lawyer looked thoughtful, but shook his head. "Oh, but Mr.
Dockett on the subject of the seven thousand dollars, but the lawyer remained entirely oblivious, and to this day has not been able to recall a single incident attending the alleged transfer. Mr. Dockett has, without doubt, a shocking bad memory.
Now, there's the Dockett concern, for instance. Holy smokes! but they're wealthy. If I told you the business they do you wouldn't believe me." "No?" David laid his pipe upon the verandah railing. He had to do it because his hand was trembling so violently that he could hold it no longer. "Indeed you wouldn't," the captain continued, not noticing his companion's agitation.
'Come November, I lodged with Jim in the outside room over 'gainst his hen-house. I paid her my rent. I was workin' for Dockett at Pounds gettin' chestnut-bats out o' Perry Shaw. Just such weather as this be rain atop o' rain after a wet October. The water was lyin' in the flats already. "Gor a-mighty, Jesse!" he bellers out at me, "get that rubbish away all manners you can.
"Would it surprise you, Captain, to learn that Melburne Telford, alias Sydney Bramshaw, is David Findley's nephew?" Mr. Westcote asked. "His nephew!" the captain exclaimed. "Old David's nephew!" "Yes, that's who he is, and David and Simon Dockett were brothers." "Good heavens!" the captain ejaculated. "What's the meaning of it all, I'd like to know?" "Let me tell you," Mr. Westcote replied.
"The package may only have contained four thousand dollars," said Mr. Hardy, driven to this desperate expedient in the hope of inducing the lawyer to share the plunder of the creditors. But Mr. Dockett again shook his head. "Say, then, I gave you but three thousand dollars." "No," was the emphatic answer. "But I am sure you will remember having received two thousand dollars from my hand."
He sailed once on my ship, and that was the first time I met him. He was a gay one." "Do you remember his name?" Lois was much excited now. "Sure; it was Melburne Telford. I couldn't forget that for if he told it to us once on that trip he told it a hundred times. He was always boasting that he was the nephew of old Simon Dockett, and that he was to fall heir to his wealth."
'I be too tired to go readin' papers of evenin's; but Dockett he told me, that very week, I think, that they'd inquested on a man down at Robertsbridge which had poked and poked up agin' so many bridges an' banks, like, they couldn't make naun out of him. 'An' what did Mary say to all these doin's? When we come in she was upstairs studyin' to be a school-teacher. None told her naun about it.
One day, a few weeks after this interview took place, the client of Mr. Dockett came hurriedly into his office, and, drawing him aside, said, as he slipped a small package into his hand, "Here is something for you. You remember our conversation a short time ago?" "Oh, very well." "You understand me, Mr. Dockett?" "Oh, perfectly! all right; when do you go before the commissioners?" "To-morrow."
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