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If I can show him that the new tenant has moved in already he might wait until his first month's rent was paid. You see that " "Oh, yes, Pawson, I see see it all clear as day," interrupted St. George "have been seeing it for some months past, although neither you nor Gadgem seem to have been aware of that fact." This came with so grave a tone that Pawson raised his eyes inquiringly.
And it was the same unknown gentleman who figured as "the much-obliged friend," Pawson conducting the negotiations and securing the owner's consent. On this occasion Gadgem sold the saddle outright to the keeper of a livery stable, whose bills he collected, paying the difference between the asking and the selling price out of his own pocket. Gradually, however, St.
"Really, Talbot, you amuse me. When you set that dirty hound Gadgem on his trail, what did you expect me to do? invite the dog to dinner? or have him sleep in the house until I sold furniture enough to get rid of him?" The colonel leaned back against the mantel's edge as if for support. All the fight was out of him.
"You mean you want to buy it?" The bill collector made a little movement forward and scrutinized St. George's face with the eye of a hawk. For a man of Temple's kidney to be without a fowling piece was like a king being without a crown. This was the crucial moment. Gadgem knew Temple's class, and knew just how delicately he must be handled. If St.
I have been all alone so far except Gadgem who has been a treasure. You remember him. Why didn't you let Mr. Temple know you were coming?" "I couldn't. I have been up in the mountains of Brazil, and coming home went ashore got wrecked. These clothes I bought from a sailor," and he opened his rough jacket the wider.
You may not have heard of it before, Gadgem," and he turned to the collector, "but it is one of old General Dorsey Temple's left-overs. It has been in the courts now some forty years. When this decision is made binding," here he again faced Harry "Mr. Temple comes in for a considerable share." Gadgem jumped to his feet and snapped his fingers rapidly.
Gadgem felt in his inside pocket, produced and consulted a memorandum with the air of a man who wanted to be entirely sure, and in a bland voice said: "I should think at your time of life if you will permit me, sir that one less gun would not seriously inconvenience you. Would you permit me, sir, to hope that " St. George looked up from his plate and a peculiar expression flitted across his face.
In this praiseworthy effort, to Todd's unbounded astonishment, Pawson had one night developed a plan in which the greatly feared and much-despised Gadgem was to hold first place. Indeed on the very morning succeeding the receipt of Pawson's letter and at an hour when St. George would be absent at the club, there had come a brisk rat-a-tat on the front door and Gadgem had sidled in.
A coachman from across the park solved the difficulty a day or two later with a whispered word in Todd's ear, which set the boy's temper ablaze for he dearly loved the dogs himself until he had talked it over with Pawson and Gadgem, and had then broken the news to his master as best he could.
"Yes, he gave it to me," laughed Harry, greatly amused at the collector's effusive manner: He had never seen this side of Gadgem. "That, of course, you know all about you paid the bills, I believe." "PREcisely so, sir." He had lengthened out now with a spiral-spring, cork-screw twist in his body, his index finger serving as point. "Paid every one of them.
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