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"I'm not. That's just the trouble." Carroll reflected. He had an idea that Miss Horsfield was somehow connected with the matter, but this was a suspicion he could not mention. "Well," he said, "as I pointed out, you're addicted to taking the hardest way. When we came up here before, you marched past this valley, chiefly because it was close at hand; but I don't want to dwell on that.
However, ye will meet Horsfield to-night. We expect him and his sister." Vane thought he had been favored with a hint, but he fancied also that his host was not inimical and was merely reserving his judgment with Caledonian caution. Nairn changed the subject. "So ye're going to England for a holiday. Ye will have friends who'll be glad to see ye yonder?"
This was significant, as it implied that he did not intend to remain in Vancouver, where he would be able to enjoy Evelyn's company; but Carroll made no comment, and Vane soon spoke again. "Didn't you mention last night that it was through Miss Horsfield that you got the tug? I was thinking about something else at the time." "Yes.
"In a few words, the capital was no subscribed it leaked out that the ore was running poor and we held an emergency meeting. With Vane away, I could put no confidence into the shareholders they were anxious to get from under and Horsfield brought forward an amalgamation scheme: A combine would take the property over, on their valuation.
"It's not needed; they're sterling metal." "That's my own idea." Carroll moved away and Vane strolled out onto the veranda, where Horsfield joined him a few minutes later. "I don't know whether it's a very suitable time to mention it; but may I ask whether you are any nearer a decision about that smelter? Candidly, I'd like the contract." "I am not," Vane answered.
He had afterward lounged about the city for nearly a week, and he found this becoming monotonous. Nairn presently referred to one of the papers in his hand. "Horsfield has been bringing up that smelter project again, and there's something to be said in favor of his views," he remarked. "We're paying a good deal for reduction." "We couldn't keep a smelter going, at present," Vane objected.
Horsfield and Gayet according to my desire, and there I took them up, it being almost twelve o'clock, or a little more, and carried them to the King's playhouse, where the doors were not then open; but presently they did open; and we in, and find many people already come in, by private ways, into the pit, it being the first day of Sir Charles Sidly's new play, so long expected, "The Mullberry Guarden," of whom, being so reputed a wit, all the world do expect great matters.
Drayton owned that it might be advisable to hurry, and they set off for the business quarter of the city. During the remainder of the day Vane was busy on board the sloop, but in the evening he walked over to Horsfield's house with Mrs. Nairn and found Jessy and her brother at home. Horsfield presently took Vane to his smoking-room. "About that smelter," he began.
The greater portion of the species of mammals and birds contained in these lists will be found, with suitable references to the most accurate descriptions, in the admirable catalogue of the collection at the India House, published under the care of the late Dr. Horsfield. Structure and Functions.
See a paper by Edgar L. Layard, Esq. Mag. Nat. Hist. March, 1853. Dr. Horsfield had previously observed the same habit in a species of Buceros in Java. Birds, E.I. Comp. The hornbill abounds in Cuttack, and bears there the name of "Kuchila-Kai," or Kuchila-eater, from its partiality for the fruit of the Strychnus nuxvomica.
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