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I have already forgiven him: and it's only fair to give Captain Hunken his turn." Who less suspicious than Cai? Had he been suspicious at all, what better reassurance than the sly pressure of her hand as he bade her good-day? . . . Poor 'Bias! Once past the gate, and out of sight, Cai felt a strange desire to skip!
"Well, I always favoured Cap'n Hocken's chance, for my part. An', come to think, 'tis more fitty 't should happen so. When all's said an' done, t'other's a foreigner, as you might say, from the far side o' the Duchy: an' if old Bosenna's money is to go anywhere, why then, bein' Troy-earned, let it go to a Troy man." "But 'tis a facer for Cap'n Hunken, all the same. Poor chap, look at 'en."
Provided you dig it deep enough, and don't let it touch the young roots " "I thank you kindly, ma'am," said Captain Cai, "and so will my friend 'Bias Hunken when he hears of it." "Ah, my other tenant? or tenant in prospect, I ought to say. He has not arrived yet, I understand." "He's due to-morrow, ma'am, by th' afternoon train."
She threw him a look which might mean little or much. Cai took it to mean much. "Ma'am, " he began, but she had turned and was appealing to 'Bias. "Captain Hunken and I were at that moment agreeing that a man of your abilities a native of Troy, too and, so to speak, at the height of his powers ought not to be rusting or allowed to rust in a little place where so much wants to be done.
"It's odd now; but I've always regarded that parrot as rather a dull bird: though of course I've never hinted that to 'Bias to Captain Hunken." "He wasn't dull this afternoon," asseverated Mrs Bowldler. "Oh, not by any manner of means!" "Has he ever er annoyed you in this way before?" "Never, sir." "Has the boy ever heard him use er this kind o' language?"
Troy with its many amenities has a deplorable appetite for gossip; and to this appetite the contention of Captain Hocken and Captain Hunken for Mrs Bosenna's hand gave meat and drink. The sporting ones laid bets.
"So that's the latest game, is it? He's been gettin' at you a mere child like you! and sends you off here to work on my feelin's! . . . I thought better of 'Bias: upon my soul, I did." "An' you'd better go on thinkin' better," retorted Fancy with spirit. "Cap'n Hunken sent me? What next? . . . Why, he never spoke a word to me!" "Then I don't see " "Why I'm here?
"How's Cap'n Hunken in these days?" he inquired. "Nicely, thank you," answered Cai, using the formula of Troy. "I ha'n't see you two together o' late." "No?" Cai, casting about to change the subject, let fall a casual remark on the weather, and asked, "What's that you're carryin', if one may make so bold?" "It's it's a little commission for John Peter," stammered Mr Philp. "Nothin' to mention."
"Excuse me," the auctioneer corrected him blandly; "the gentleman at the far end of the room I didn't catch his name " "Hunken," said 'Bias. "Captain Hunken," prompted Mr Philp. "Er excuse me, Mr Middlecoat, but Captain Hunken has just offered a hundred-and-twenty." "And thirty!" chimed Cai. "Fifty!" intoned back the voice by the door. Mr Middlecoat passed a hand over his brow.
It might even have happened with you two single gentlemen in the room. . . . Stay another twenty-four hours in the house I will not, with the chance of it staring me in the face." Cai rubbed his chin. "I see," said he after a moment. "Well, it's awkward, but I'll speak to Captain Hunken."
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