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He turned swiftly to Hardiman with a boyish light upon his face. "Oh, I am not in doubt of what to-night means to me! Not for a moment. If it's failure, it means that I begin again to-morrow on something else; and again after that, and again after that, until success does come. Playwriting is my profession, and failures are a necessary part of it just as much a part as the successes.
"I do not think I am certain." "Did Mr. Hardiman ever say anything about these bits of rock to you?" "Never," answered the doctor. "I think I suggested to the captain that they might be valuable. I have no knowledge on the point, but I cannot conceive a man like Hardiman carrying them about unless they were of value." "I take it he is a geologist," Quarles said carelessly.
The first act was played to a hushed house, and while the applause which greeted the fall of the curtain was still rattling about the walls of the theatre, Sir Charles Hardiman hoisted himself heavily out of his stall and made his way to a box on the first tier, which he entered without knocking. There was but one person in the box, a young man hidden behind a side curtain.
"I hadn't an idea that we should find her here," said Hillyard. "Lady Splay told me so very clearly that Mrs. Croyle always timed her visits to avoid a party." Hillyard was a little troubled lest he should be thought by his friend to have concurred in a plot to bring about this meeting. "I suppose that Hardiman told her you were coming to Rackham Park.
"Yellow diamonds of a kind that are very rarely found," Majendie answered. "I may be mistaken, but that is my opinion. If I am right, the actual gem, when cut, would be comparatively small. It is enclosed, as it were, in a thick casing of rock." "Did Hardiman know this?" Quarles asked. "I am not sure.
"Mario Escobar!" Millie Splay exclaimed. "It was he." She turned pale. Sir Charles Hardiman had spoken frankly to her of Escobar. A creature of the shadows it was rumored that he lived on the blackmailing of women. Joan was not out of the wood then! Martin Hillyard was quick to appease her fears.
"Hardiman was apparently stabbed with a rusty knife," Quarles remarked. "Stabbed! You could not stab any one with this, and certainly I have never seen it before." I did not understand why Quarles was passing this off as the real weapon. He took it up, grasped it firmly, and stabbed the air with it. "I don't know, it might " He shook his head and put the knife on the table again.
The celebrated passage in Tacitus is quoted in support of this position; and among other less interesting extracts, is the following account of Galway by Hardiman, a country which, so great is the blessing of a paternal and judicious government, may furnish, in the nineteenth century, illustrations of uncivilized life, equally picturesque and striking with those which Tacitus has recorded in his day as familiar among the inhabitants of Pagan Germany.
Soon after, he mounted his young horse and rode back to his native State, and took charge of the tavern aforesaid in the town of Bolivar, Hardiman County, of which tavern he was waiter, clerk, and book-keeper. Here he had a pretty hard time. Being very young, gawky, and ill-dressed, he was subject to a good deal of jesting and ridicule. But he was fond of reading.
Croyle. I hope you will meet him some day at Rackham Park." Sir Chichester trotted away to greet the manager of the Daily Harpoon, who was at that moment shaking hands with Hardiman. "I congratulate you," said Stella Croyle, as she gave him her hand. "Thank you. So you know Sir Chichester well?" "His wife has been a friend of mine for a long time." Her eyes twinkled.
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