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Take it as a token, and take also enough of our gold to buy the stuffs whereof you speak, which hide fires that can throw mountains skyward, and the services of skilled and trusty men who are masters of the stuff, two or three of them only, for more cannot be transported across the desert, and come back to save your son and me. That's all the story, Higgs.
Gimblet looked at him with questioning disapproval. It was an inflexible rule of his that when engaged with a client he was not to be disturbed. Higgs, well acquainted with this rule, hovered doubtfully in the doorway, displaying on the salver he carried the blue, unaddressed envelope Lord Ashiel had told him to deliver at once. "It's a note, sir," he murmured hesitatingly.
When I awoke again it was to find myself in a large room that I did not know. I was lying on a bed, and by the light of sunrise which streamed through the window-places I saw the three others, my son Roderick, Orme and Higgs lying on the other beds, but they were still asleep.
Burnworth's grand associates were these, William Blewit, Emanuel Dickenson, Thomas Berry, John Levee, William Marjoram, John Higgs, John Wilson, John Mason, Thomas Mekins, William Gillingham, John Barton, William Swift, and some others that it is not material here to mention.
"Why, hasn't Brother Clark told you about me?" he inquired. Mr. Higgs shook his head. "He sort of suggested that that you had been a little bit wild before you came to us," he murmured apologetically. "A little bit wild?" repeated Brother Burge, in horrified accents. "ME? a little bit wild?" "No doubt he exaggerated a little," said the jeweller hurriedly.
But, as I was not in love, no one shook my hand, so, leaving the other two to discuss the virtues and graces of the Child of Kings, I went off to bed filled with the gloomiest forbodings. What a fool I had been not to insist that whatever expert accompanied Higgs should be a married man.
Oh, she had been quick and dexterous! And he? He had been a gull, and false to his trust, and altogether contemptible. What should he say to Lord Ashiel? Why in the world hadn't he locked up the letter when Higgs brought it in? This was what came of making red-tape regulations about not being disturbed.
Here Barung the Sultan visited him and informed him of his meeting with the rest of us, to whom apparently he had taken a great liking, and also that we had refused to purchase a chance of his release at the price of being false to our trust. "You know," said Higgs, "that when first I heard this I was very angry with you, and thought you a set of beasts.
The apartment was so small and so bare that it was not difficult to take stock of its contents, and Mrs. Higgs laughed ironically. "Isn't the place furnished to your liking?" she asked in a mocking tone. "Are you looking for the sofas and the sideboards and the silver and the plate?" Dudley cast at the old woman a look which was more eloquent than he knew of hatred and disgust.
"But you you've quite reformed now?" said the jeweller, resuming his seat and making a great effort to hide his consternation. "I 'ope so," said Mr. Burge, with alarming humility; "but it's an uncertain world, and far be it from me to boast. That's why I've come here." Mr. Higgs, only half-comprehending, sat back gasping.
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