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"She's a ripper," said Lord Dreever, devoutly. On the Thames Embankment, in the small hours of a summer morning, there is no such thing as a stranger. The man you talk with is a friend, and, if he will listen as, by the etiquette of the place, he must you may pour out your heart to him without restraint. It is expected of you! "I'm fearfully in love with her," said his lordship.
When Spennie became Earl of Dreever, there was about one dollar and thirty cents in the family coffers. This is the point at which Sir Thomas Blunt breaks into Dreever history.
I reckoned much on the Bishop's letter, which I had still in my possession, and on the influence which his last communication to the "President" would of necessity exercise; so I decided to visit Fort Garry, upon the conditions that my baggage was restored intact, Mr. Dreever set at liberty, and the nondescript flag taken down.
Well, he was still up when I got back last night, and we stayed up playing billiards he's rotten at billiards; something frightful: I give him twenty till five this morning. I feel fearfully cheap. Wouldn't have got up at all, only I'm due to catch the two-fifteen down to Dreever. It's the only good train." He dropped into a chair.
The son of a hundred earls was pale, and his eyes were markedly fish-like. "A fellow I've got stopping with me taking him down to Dreever with me to-day man I met at the club fellow named Hargate. Don't know if you know him? No?
Holborn Bars, London E. C. SIR: With reference to my last of the 28th, ult., I should be glad if you would send down immediately one of your best men. Am making arrangements to receive him. Kindly instruct him to present himself at Dreever Castle as applicant for position of valet to myself. I will see and engage him on his arrival, and further instruct him in his duties. Yours faithfully,
If only he had even say, a couple of thousands a year of his own he might make a fight for it. But, dash it, Uncle Tom could cut off supplies to such a frightful extent, if there was trouble, that he would have to go on living at Dreever indefinitely, without so much as a fearful quid to call his own. Imagination boggled at the prospect.
Moreover, Lord Dreever was not by nature an introspective young man, but, examining his position as he walked along, he found himself wondering whether it was not a little unheroic. He came to the conclusion that perhaps it was. Of course, Uncle Thomas could make it deucedly unpleasant for him if he kicked. That was the trouble.
I'm watching him. He's here on some game. How did he get here? Why, he scraped acquaintance with Lord Dreever in a London restaurant. It's the commonest trick on the list. If I hadn't happened to be here when he came, I suppose he'd have made his haul by now. Why, he came all prepared for it! Have you seen an ugly, grinning, red-headed scoundrel hanging about the place? His valet. So he says.
And I may say that it struck me at the time that there was something mighty fishy about the way he got into the castle." McEachern started. So, he had not been the only one to suspect Jimmy's motives in attaching himself to Lord Dreever. "Go on," he said.
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