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It was beginning to occur to me that this was a case in which another blow upon the river might be, to say the least of it, advisable and I was just returning into the house with the intention of putting myself into my flannels, when a cab drew up, and old Lindon got out of it.
'Did you acquaint your father with the addition to his household? She looked at me, quizzically. 'You see, when one has such a father as mine one cannot tell him everything, at once. There are occasions on which one requires time. I felt that this would be wholesome hearing for old Lindon.
Of course not," cried Don eagerly; "Mrs Wimble sweeps up every morning, and if there had been she would have found it." Uncle Josiah lifted off his cocked hat, and put it on again wrong way first. "This is a very unpleasant affair, Lindon," he said. "I can afford to lose seven guineas, or seven hundred if it came to that, but I can't afford to lose confidence in those whom I employ."
"Yes," said Uncle Josiah bitterly; "at the magistrate's office at eleven, and take Lindon with me. Well, Laura, what have you to say to that?" Mrs Lavington gave him an imploring look. "Try and find him," she whispered, "for my sake." "Try and find him!" he replied angrily, "I was willing to look over everything to try and fight his battle and prove to the world that the accusation was false."
Surely only a woman's hand could tie a knot like that, who would have guessed yours were such agile fingers? So! An endorsement on the cover! What's this? let's see what's written! "The letters of my dear love, Marjorie Lindon."
As the silence still continued, I chanced to glance up, and there was old Lindon peeping at us from his hiding-place behind the screen.
Come down and gone for a walk, I suppose. Back soon." The breakfast went on, but there was no Kitty, no Don, and Uncle Josiah began to eat his food ferociously. At last he got up and rang the bell sharply, and Jessie responded. "What time did Master Lindon come home?" he said. "Come home, sir?" "Yes; did I not speak plainly? I said what time did Master Lindon come home?"
The bird who kept company with the jackdaws had his neck wrung, innocent as he was. I want Lindon to see how very near he has been to having his neck wrung through keeping company with a jackdaw. Now, my dear Laura, leave it to me.
How dare you charge him with such a crime?" "I did not charge him with any crime, my dear Laura," said the old merchant, gravely. "Then it is not true?" "It is true that I have been robbed, and that the man whom Lindon has persisted in making his companion, in spite of all I have said to the contrary, has charged him with the base, contemptible crime of robbing the master who trusted him."
He was in his familiar state of fluster, and was gaping about him as if he had mislaid the Koh-i-noor, and wondered where in thunder it had got to. When he saw it was I he caught me by the arm. 'I say, Atherton, have you seen Miss Lindon? 'I have. 'No! Have you? By Jove! Where?
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