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"Then tell the gentleman who the villain was; for I believe you know." "I'll tell 'em summut about it." Grotait turned pale; but still kept his glittering eye fixed on the sick man. "The job was offered to me; but I wouldn't be in it. I know that much. Says I, 'He has had his squeak." "Who offered you the job?" asked Mr. Holdfast. And at this moment Ransome came in.

"Who shall I ask for?" "George Grotait." "Grotait. The devil!" "No, no. Not quite so bad as that." "What," said Henry, roughly, "do you mean to say you are old Smitem?" "That is a name FOOLS give me." Henry had no reply ready, and so the sturdy old secretary got the better of him again, and went his way unruffled. Henry scolded Bayne for not telling him.

They had been for many years governed by Grotait, than whom no man in England saw clearer; though such men as Amboyne saw further.

Grotait, on the other hand, whose vanity the young man had irritated, was bent on dismounting his forge. But even he had cooled a little, and was now disinclined to violence.

"But I can," said Grotait. "He is a bachelor. You can tell Simmons so. There are reasons why Ned Simmons must be in this. Try him to-morrow at dinner-time. Bid two pounds more; and his wife is near her time tell him this job will help him buy her wine and things," said the kind, parental, diabolical Grotait. Next morning Henry worked with the pen for Dr. Amboyne till twelve o'clock.

He went out, and soon returned, and told them it was one sovereign contribution from each man, and five shillings each for Mary Anne. "What, for her services in rattening us?" said Little, dryly. "And her risk," suggested Grotait, in dulcet tones. Little paid the five pounds, and then asked Grotait for the bands. "Good heavens, Mr. Little, do you think I have got your bands?" "You must excuse Mr.

Little: he is right with the Trade, and we should have Grotait and all the Trade as bitter as death against us.

Then he remembered something that had fallen from Dr. Amboyne; and he turned to Grotait. Grotait hesitated for once. In his heart he went with the file-cutter: but his understanding encumbered him. "Starvation," said he, "is as miserable a death as poisoning. But why make a large question out of a small one, with rushing into generalities? I really think you might let Mr.

Grotait, however, treated him with cool contempt, and proceeded to make a sketch of the door, and a little map showing how the church could be approached from Hillsborough on foot without passing through Cairnhope village. This done, he went back with Parkin to the inn, and thence to Hillsborough. It was old Christmas Eve. Henry was working at his forge, little dreaming of danger.

"Of course not; but they are double as thick as ever were used before; and have been severely tested before laying 'em down: besides, don't you see each of them has got his great-coat on? eighteen inches of puddle all the way." "Ah," said Grotait, "all the better. But it is astonishing what big embankments will sometimes burst if a leaky pipe runs through them.

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