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"And you haven't seen any of them since, I suppose?" "Nary a one." On his return to the Hoff mansion the investigator found the head thereof in a state of great excitement. "Say, I've found out something," he cried. "Roddy's gone to Yurrup." "Where did you find that out?" asked Average Jones with a smile. "I been going through his papers like you told me. He's been outfitting for a trip.
Our grand-uncle and guardian, the old knight Im Hoff, had ever, so long as I could remember, demeaned himself as a penitent, spending his nights, and not sleeping much, in a coffin, and giving the lion's share of his great revenues to pious works to open unto himself the gates of Heaven; but what a change was wrought in him by the Emperor's coming!
Besides, to-day when I see you ride hoff with the young lady, I thinks to myself, 'There's no knowin' what time he'll be back. I know what 'tis, yer honour; hi've bin in the arms o' Wenus myself, and knows as 'ow a hour slips away like a minnit. So as there wur no tellin' if you would get to the summer-house to-night at five o'clock, I thought I'd just toddle up myself. But 'twas no go.
Says it's all rot and lies. He's dead right, of course. But there's nothing else for him to do, so he just fights booze. Better make a few inquiries at Silent Charley's." "What's that?" "Quiet little bar kept by a talkative Swede. 'Rickey' Hoff hung out there a lot. Charley even had a room fixed up for him to lay off in when he was too pickled to go home."
He took a draw at his pipe, removed it, and leant forward somewhat, over his bunk-board. "Didn't he say nothin' ter you, after you came hoff ther look-hout?" he asked. "Yes," I replied; "he spotted me going aft. He told me I was getting to imagining things too much. He said I'd better come forrard and get a sleep." "An' what did you say?" "Nothing. I came forrard."
And it is a matter of rejoicing to me that at this time there is again an Im Hoff at its head with me, so that the old name shall be handed down; Ann's oldest daughter, Margery Schopper, having married one Berthold Im Hoff, who is now my worthy partner.
He raised himself up, leaning on the arms of the great chair, so high that we were filled with amazement, and he gazed about him with his glassy eyes and then said, still holding himself up: "That, that. . . . And yesterday, only yesterday. . . . The captive himself. . . . Four and twenty thousand sequins, do you say? . . . and I oh, what were my words? . . . But what old Im Hoff promises that he will do. . . . And yet. . . . If you maids had but been duteous children, if you had but come to me first, as trustful daughters. . . . Only yesterday I might Yes, perchance I might. . . ." And then he stormed forth: "But who is there indeed to care for me?
It was indeed an unheard-of and devilish extortion; and when Kubbeling came to hear of it he turned his wild-cat-skin pocket inside out, and fell to raging and storming. Aunt Jacoba turned pale when she heard the great sum named, and she likewise was of opinion that old Im Hoff, who had of late been spending much money in vows and foundations, would never give forth so vast a sum.
What of it?" "Mr. Hoff, your son has been caught by one of the oldest tricks in the whole bunco list the lost Spanish mine swindle. That acid, together with the rest of the outfit, means a gold-hunt as plain as if it were spelled out. And the Spanish professor was sent for, not to give lessons, but to translate the fake letter. Where does your son bank?" "Fifth National."
'Oh, yes, said the curate, 'all that was very sad. 'The more so, said Higgs briskly, 'that when it was broke hoff, Mr. Herbert died of love. He went to some foreign countries and took up with low company, and there he died. Squire hasn't held his head up straight since that day. 'All that was before I came, said the curate very gravely, for he did not know exactly what to say.
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