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"Oh, just a line from Bland," replied he, hastily putting it into his pocket; "he gives no news." If truth must be told, Blandford's letter was not a very nice one, and Reginald felt it. He did not care to hear it read aloud in contrast with Harker's warm-hearted letter. Blandford had written, "Dear Cruden, I hope it's not true about your father's money going all wrong.
They seemed rather uninterested. They had, in truth, seen all this before; the only thing that was new to them being Harker's testimony. "Gentlemen," the coroner said, "we have no more evidence, I think. Your duty has been already explained to you; if there is nothing you wish to ask you may go outside and consider your verdict." The foreman rose a tall, bearded man of sixty, coarsely clad.
Harker got in a word before Dick could answer. "No matter if he does, doctor," he remarked quietly. "Whatever it is, the whole town'll know of it by tomorrow. They'll not keep it back." Bryce let Dick go, and the boy immediately darted off in the direction of the close, while the two men went towards Harker's house.
In the meantime Harker's and F. T. Sherman's troops were approaching the partial line of works midway of the ridge, and as I returned to the centre of their rear, they were being led by many stands of regimental colors.
Harker asking if he had meant what he had said a year ago, and if he'd care to exchange his Rathdale practice for his old practice in Leeds. Harker's wife was threatened with lung trouble, and they would have to live in the country somewhere, and Harker himself wouldn't be sorry for the exchange. His present practice was worth twice what it had been ten years ago and it was growing.
If any remarkably keen and able observer of the odd characteristics of humanity had been present in Harker's little parlour at that moment, watching him and his visitor, he would have been struck by what happened when the old man put this sudden and point-blank question to the young one.
"Please, sir, missus is in, but she ain't alone; Captain George and Mrs. George's father have just come not half an hour ago." And so Joyce Harker's self-imposed task was at an end, and George Jernam's long brooding upon his brother's fate was over.
In the midst of Bull's pre-occupation the door from the outer office was thrust open, and Bat Harker's harsh voice jarred the silence of the room. "Gettin' a peek at things," he cried, stumping heavily across the thick carpet. "Well, it looks good to me, too. Say, if this lasts just one week we'll be as clear of snow as hell's sidewalks."
Good luck to you, dear old boy, now and always, and every good wish. From your affectionate brother," "GEORGE JERNAM." It was Joyce Harker's melancholy task to tell Valentine Jernam's younger brother the story of the seaman's death.
He had been playing for upwards of an hour, and had drunk several glasses of punch, before his luck changed, and he had occasion to take out the bloated leathern pocket-book, distended unnaturally with notes and gold. But for that rum-punch he might, perhaps, have remembered Joyce Harker's warning, and avoided displaying his wealth before these two men.
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