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"I hope I am always a gentleman," I said, "but I am not the kind of gentleman you mean. I have no launch and no money but what I can earn. I am the new man who is to look after Mr. Horsfal's Golden Crescent property. I shall be more or less of a common country storekeeper after to-day." "Heard about that store from old Jake. Granddad over home was talking about it, too.
"No! but three summers ago there were some English people staying in that house at the wharf that's now closed up: the one next Horsfal's, and they were in the water so much, they hardly gave the fish a chance. It was the worst year we ever had for fishing." I laughed, and she looked up in surprise. "Then we had an English surveyor staying with us for a month last year. He was crazy for the water.
Dow, Cross & Sneddon for instance. They are Mr. Horsfal's lawyers and solicitors. They are straight, honest business men, too." "Guess they'll fill the bill, all right." "What is on your mind, Jake?" I asked. "Write them as well, George. Tell them to send up a man who can draw up a will.
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