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And then suddenly we seemed to be close to Bucky Gum's pasture; the well became a kind of pipe stuck up out of the ground and began to spout fire; and there was a great light in the sky and I saw Jesus coming down out of the sky, and there was thunder. Then I began to fly drift down, and all of a sudden, kerplunk, I fell out of bed.
He was too ill to say much; and I went to the next door, and put it to Gum's wife that she should go and nurse Pike for humanity's sake. Of course it was what she wanted to do. Poor thing! she fell on her knees later, beseeching me not to betray him." "And you have kept counsel all this time?" "Yes," said the surgeon, laconically.
Thank dad for what he has done for me. I'll make it all square with him when I get home." This had reference to a fact which Calne did not know. In that unhappy second visit of Clerk Gum's to London, he did succeed in appeasing the wrath of Goldsworthy and Co., and paid in every farthing of the money.
It was the bête noire of Clerk Gum's life, Mrs. Jones. "What's the house shut up for at this early hour?" she began. "The door locked, the shutters up, and the blinds down, just as if everybody was dead or asleep. Where's Nance?" "She's out," said the clerk. "I suppose she shut up before she went, and I've been in my office all the afternoon. Do you want anything?"
People took up the notion from his wild appearance, and because he had no ostensible means of living. It would not have done to let them know that he had his supplies sometimes money, sometimes food from respectable clerk Gum's." "But why should he be in concealment at all? That bank affair was made all right at the time." "There are other things he feared, it seems.
He took the lonely way, and only struck into the high-road opposite his own domicile, the shed. Passing round it, he hovered at its rude door the one he had himself made, along with the ruder window and then, treading softly, he stepped to the low stile in the hedge, which had for years made the boundary between the waste land on which the shed stood and Clerk Gum's garden.
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