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"Your blessed hide'll feel for this, see if it don't." Kirkland only breathed harder, and looked round for Mr. North, but Mr. North had gone. The new chaplain was to arrive that afternoon, and it was incumbent on him to be at the reception. Troke reported the ex-bank clerk that night to Burgess, and Burgess, who was about to go to dinner with the new chaplain, disposed of his case out of hand.
Harker failed to comply with a proposition he was about to make to him. The business which he suggested was one entirely abhorrent to the ex-bank clerk; but with money running short, and the thought of his daughter's misery should her secret be revealed, what could the father do but submit?
As an ex-bank clerk he was aware that though an individual would lose, the State, through the Bank of England, would correspondingly gain, and thus for the nonce he had the large sensation of a patriot. Axon, the factotum of the counting-house, came in from the outer office, with a mien composed of mirth and apprehension in about equal parts.
"I'm not to go in there?" says the ex-bank clerk, drawing back in dismay from the cloud of foul faces which lowered upon him. "By the Lord, but you are, then!" says Troke. "The Governor says a night in there'll take the starch out of ye. Come, in yer go." "But, Mr. Troke "
"John Maitland, once of Market Milcaster," replied Spargo. "Ex-bank manager. Also ex-convict." "Ex-convict!" "Ex-convict. He was sentenced, at Market Milcaster Quarter Sessions, in autumn, 1891, to ten years' penal servitude, for embezzling the bank's money, to the tune of over two hundred thousand pounds. Served his term at Dartmoor. Went to Australia as soon, or soon after, he came out.
"Precisely what we are doing, Dr. Bryce," replied Harker. "All right, my friend," said Bryce, laconically. "Now we understand each other. So do you know who John Braden really was?" "Yes!" replied Harker, promptly. "He was in reality John Brake, ex-bank manager, ex-convict." "Do you know if he's any relatives here in Wrychester?" inquired Bryce. "Yes," said Harker.
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