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There on the blank pages, written in a crabbed hand long ago, at times letters blurred out but always a trace left where the unaccustomed scribe had borne down hard in his painful labourings, was the "secret" at last Gus Ingle's message come to him across the dead years: "Good god I never see such gold nor no man neither and when he come in to camp you could reed in his look he had found it because no man could have looked at that Mother load and not look like Jimmy.
It'll cut out profits." "No, it'll increase them. One good rider means a great deal to us." "Then let's get thet miner, Charley Brown." "But he's working a gold claim." "Wal, if I know anythin' he'll not be workin' it any longer than findin' blue dirt. Gus an' me seen Jard Hardman with two men ridin' out thet way this mawnin'." "Ah!... So Hardman is here now.
When this form had been gone through, and the maid-of-all-work had once more made her appearance and cleared the table, Jeannie spoke again. "Gus," she said, "I want you to put me to bed and then come and read to me out of 'Jemima's Vow' where poor Jemima dies, you know. It is the most beautiful thing in the book, and I want to hear it again."
"No, my Lady," says I; "for her Ladyship, the Countess of Drum, said, if you remember, that my friend Gus Hoskins " "Whose cause you supported so bravely," cries Lady Fanny. " That my friend Gus is her Ladyship's cousin too, which cannot be, for I know all his family: they live in Skinner Street and St. Mary Axe, and are not not quite so respectable as my relatives."
Of course the talk about Gus and Van Dam included the Allens; and if poor Edith could have heard the surmises about them in the select coterie of clerks that gathered after closing hours around Crowl, as the central fountain of gossip, she would have felt more bitterly than ever that the spirit of chivalry had utterly forsaken mankind.
"If you should put in one dollar, and Co should put in ten cents, at the end of a certain time, you'd draw out ten dollars and Co would only draw out one. See?" "I do," said the practical Gus. "Well, now let's put our money into something and all own it together, each one's share according to what we put in. Let's buy this house!" They all stared in amazement. "Buy a house!
At this they all began to laugh; and my Lord said, rather haughtily "Depend upon it, Mr. Titmarsh, that Lady Drum is no more your cousin than she is the cousin of your friend Mr. Hoskinson." "Hoskins, my Lord and so I told Gus; but you see he is very fond of me, and will have it that I am related to Lady D.: and say what I will to the contrary, tells the story everywhere.
"I'd forgotten how cold I was," said Etta; "hadn't you?" "No," said Susan, "I hadn't forgotten anything." "Yes, I suppose it was all worse for you than for me. You used to be a lady." "Don't talk nonsense," said Susan. "I don't regret what I'm doing," Etta now declared. "It was Gus that made me think about it." She looked somewhat sheepish as she went on to explain.
Gus stepped forward without any show of the excitement that characterized the others. "If you need evidence other than our word, it's easy to find," he said. "Mac New's gun was not the same caliber as Pan's. An' as the bullet thet killed Hardman is still in his body it can be found." "Gentlemen, that isn't necessary," replied Wiggate, hastily, with a shudder. "Not for me.
There is something ominous about the written word. If Nelson grew suspicious, he'd never come. Gray stepped into Gus Briskow's office and asked him to call the former vice-president, first, however, explaining exactly what he wished Gus to say. The ruse succeeded; then Gray returned to his own office. He drew a deep breath.
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