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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Will you allow me, my Lord, to introduce to you Captain Dowsett, his wife, and daughter, who have been to me the kindest of friends?" "A kindness, my Lord," Captain Dave said earnestly, "that has been repaid a thousandfold by this good youth, of whose rank we were indeed ignorant until you named it. May I ask you to honour us by joining in our meal?"
"Now about that double dividend on the eighteenth " John Dowsett drew a slip of paper from his note-book and adjusted his glasses. "Let me show you the figures. Here, you see..." And thereupon he entered into a long technical and historical explanation of the earnings and dividends of Ward Valley from the day of its organization.
After he had gone, Mistress Dowsett said, after a pause, "Do you not think, David, that, seeing that Cyril is the son of a Knight, it would be more becoming to give him the room downstairs instead of the attic where he is now lodged?" The old sailor laughed. "That is woman-kind all over," he said.
The whole household was crowding into the room in various stages of dishabille. The terrified Joan and the disappointed Paul had each to tell their tale. But whilst the parents bent over their daughter, soothing her terrors and calming her fears, Jack drew toward Paul and his comrade, and said in low tones: "Simon Dowsett is not a foe to be set at defiance.
It was a wild animal fight; the strong trampled the weak, and the strong, he had already discovered, men like Dowsett, and Letton, and Guggenhammer, were not necessarily the best. He remembered his miner comrades of the Arctic.
And I advise you to keep civil tongues in your heads, or I will knock them off and take my chance before the Lord Mayor for assault and battery. "With that I took off my coat and laid it on a bench. I reckon they saw that I was in earnest, and they just sat as mum as mice. Then the little man said, in a quieter sort of voice, "'You are too hasty, Captain Dowsett.
Daylight had the feeling that a healthy man-oath would be a deadly offence to his ears, a sacrilege and a blasphemy. They drank that is, Nathaniel Letton took mineral water served by the smoothly operating machine of a lackey who inhabited the place, while Dowsett took Scotch and soda and Daylight a cocktail.
"He has done quite rightly," Mrs. Dowsett said warmly, "though, indeed, it is not everyone who would see matters in that light. If men always acted in that spirit it would be a better world." "Ay, ay, wife. There are not many men who, having got the best of a bargain, voluntarily resign the profits they have made.
"There will be all sorts of rumors on the street," Dowsett warned Daylight, "but do not let them frighten you. These rumors may even originate with us. You can see how and why clearly. But rumors are to be no concern of yours. You are on the inside. All you have to do is buy, buy, buy, and keep on buying to the last stroke, when the directors declare the double dividend.
Who would have thought, when John Wilkes fetched me out last night to go to the fire, it would make an alteration in my whole life, and that such a little thing as climbing up a ladder and helping to get three girls out of a room full of smoke and John Wilkes did the most difficult part of the work was to change all my prospects?" "There was a Providence in it, Cyril," Mrs. Dowsett said gently.
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