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He was beloved, and any shame that came to him would be a still more bitter humiliation for the woman who loved him. If there was any mischief in that Ullerton expedition, any collusion between the Captain and the Reverend Goodge, it would assuredly be well for Valentine to continue a mode of life which enabled him to be tolerably well informed as to the movements of the slippery Horatio.
If this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "What will you say?" "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at 221B, Baker Street. That is clear and concise." "Very. But will he see it?"
"In that case my employer would be glad to remunerate the person from whom he obtained it." Mr. Goodge again became meditative. "It was the habit of the sainted Wesley to take counsel from the Scriptures," he said presently: "if you will call again tomorrow, young man, I shall have taken counsel, and may be able to entreat with you."
The games from which he used to be excluded, or in which he used to be allowed to join on sufferance, no longer appealed to him. He preferred to let Joey Meakin lead the gang, vice Billy Goodge deposed, while he himself remained aloof.
Before bidding him a polite farewell, I was determined to make Mr. Goodge thoroughly aware that he had not taken me in. "You said there were more than forty letters," I told him; "I remember the phrase 'forty-odd, which is a colloquialism one would scarcely look for in Tillotson or in John Wesley, who cherished a prejudice in favour of scholarship which does not distinguish all his followers.
Goodge's parlour. I had a very satisfactory interview with that reverend person while you were absent from Ullerton on some short excursion, as to the purpose of which I am still in the dark. On certain terms Mr. Goodge agreed to give me the privilege of selecting a stated number from the letters of Mrs. Rebecca Haygarth.
Where was this Goodge to be found? and who was the person that was to offer him money for the letters? The names and address, which had been written first, had left no impression on the blotting-pad, or an impression so faint as to be useless for any practical purpose. Mr.
In front of him he saw, in the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger and a little knot of roughs.
Goodge, though you are knave enough to cheat every attorney in the Law List." "Young man, are you aware ?" "As I have suffered by the absence of any witness to our negotiation, I may as well profit by the absence of any witness to our interview. You are a cheat and a trickster, Mr. Goodge, and I have the honour to wish you good afternoon!"
Goodge that the young man who had called on him with reference to certain letters connected with the affairs of the Haygarth family and I perceived from Mr. Goodge's face that we were on the right track was a person of disreputable character, engaged in an underhand transaction calculated to injure a respected client of our house.
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