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Holton smiled unpleasantly, intimating that Frank's lack of betting on his horse was proof positive that the worst tales told were true. "That settles it. The bookies are right. Th' mare's no chance with a new jockey, an' you know it." "If I were betting," said Frank angrily, "I'd back her with every dollar that I have on earth." Holton smiled at him unpleasantly.
What were Mary's fortunes immediately after his departure must be shortly told, and then we will again join some of our Greshamsbury friends at a period about a month before Frank's return. When Sir Louis saw Frank Gresham standing by Mary's donkey, with his arms round Mary's knees, he began to fear that there must be something in it.
"Full speed ahead," was Captain Templeton's signal to the engine room. "Take a look below, Frank," said Jack to his first officer. "Aye, aye, sir." Frank descended a manhole in the deck. He closed the cover and secured it behind him. At the foot of the ladder was a locked door. As it opened, came a pressure on Frank's ear drums like the air-lock of a caisson.
"He manages things over there as well as many an older person could." "How a father could put so much on a mere child is a mystery," said some of the neighbor women. "I would hate to be tied to a kitchen and a row of babies like he is," was his cousin Frank's opinion. But of all these comments Austin was ignorant, nor did he think he was doing anything brave.
That was all; and those words lay all through the visit ready to Frank's hand, while with patient endurance his brother toiled away, coming and going with horse and camel, till the young Emir began to grow impatient and Frank dared not express a desire to see more, nor yet turn to look after the slave leading away the last horse. But Frank felt that the visit was not in vain.
"Money," said Hubert, when he had heard of Frank's necessities, "is not a thing I have much at command at present." "But you can procure me the loan of a hundred pounds, I daresay?" asked the other; "my next half-yearly payment will be made in two months, and then I shall be able to repay the money, with the interest."
The letter she received on the Sunday morning, and as the Wednesday named for Frank's coming was the next Wednesday, and was close at hand, she was in rather a better humour than she had displayed since the poets had failed her. "What a blessing it will be," she said, "to have somebody to speak to!" This was not complimentary, but Miss Macnulty did not want compliments. "Yes, indeed," she said.
Had Lord Ballindine been able to know all her thoughts at this moment, he would have felt little doubt as to the ultimate success of his suit. Lord Cashel firmly believed, when he left the room, that he had shown great tact in discovering Frank's mercenary schemes, and in laying them open before Fanny; and that she had firmly and finally made up her mind to have nothing more to do with him.
Now we shall see whose gratitude is worth most, the Frank's or the Breton's. I suspect the Norman valour will be the best to trust to." "Yes, and how will Norman valour prosper without treasure? Who knows what gold is in the Duke's coffers?"
"Nay, pardon me, but I think we two young men can talk more openly without a third person, even so wise and kind as you." "Let Randal go," growled the squire. And Randal went. He spent some time with Frank, and the reader will easily divine how that time was employed. As he left Frank's lodgings, he found himself suddenly seized by the squire himself.
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