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Teddy Watkins and the Aveling diamonds, it did not communicate the information to the police. An Ancient Mariner's Yarn By PERCY LONGHURST
But we did not pause; and the crowd watched us, now in silence, now with a buzz of whispers. Seventeen thousand had been reached, when Douglas B. Longhurst, forcing his way into the opposite row of faces, conspicuously and repeatedly shook his head at Jim.
Borden," said he; and then to Jim, "Well, Pink, where are we up to now?" Pinkerton gave him the figure. "I ran up to that on my own responsibility, Mr. Longhurst," he added, with a flush. "I thought it the square thing." "And so it was," said Mr. Longhurst, patting him kindly on the shoulder, like a gratified uncle. "Well, you can drop out now; we take hold ourselves.
You can run it up to five thousand; and if he likes to go beyond that, he's welcome to the bargain." "By-the-bye, who is he?" asked Pinkerton. "He looks away down." "I've sent Billy to find out"; and at the very moment Mr. Longhurst received from the hands of one of the expensive young gentlemen a folded paper.
I'll take Mamie for the trip; Longhurst won't refuse me the expense of a schooner. You wait till I get the searching of her." "But you can't search her!" cried I. "She's burned." "Burned!" cried Mamie, starting a little from the attitude of quiescent capacity in which she had hitherto sat to hear me, her hands folded in her lap. There was an appreciable pause.
Next moment the boy had sped upon his errand, and Pinkerton was again facing the auctioneer. "Two hundred dollars," said Jim. "And fifty," said the enemy. "This looks lively," whispered I to Pinkerton. "Yes; the little beast means cold-drawn biz," returned my friend. "Well, he'll have to have a lesson. Wait till I see Longhurst. Three hundred," he added aloud. "And fifty," came the echo.
"I'll go when I please, and that's to-morrow morning," cried the captain after us, as we departed for the shore. "There's something gone wrong with the world to-day; it must have come bottom up!" wailed Pinkerton. "Bellairs, and then the hotel clerk, and now This Fraud! And what am I to do for a captain, Loudon, with Longhurst gone home an hour ago, and the boys all scattered?"
During this interview the auction had stood transparently arrested, the auctioneer, the spectators, and even Bellairs, all well aware that Mr. Longhurst was the principal, and Jim but a speaking-trumpet. But now that the Olympian Jupiter was gone, Mr. Borden thought proper to affect severity. "Come, come, Mr. Pinkerton. Any advance?" he snapped.
I did think I could have done better myself. But when I found how tight money was in this city, and a man like Douglas B. Longhurst a forty-niner, the man that stood at bay in a corn patch for five hours against the San Diablo squatters weakening on the operation, I tell you, Loudon, I began to despair; and I may have made mistakes, no doubt there are thousands who could have done better but I give you a loyal hand on it, I did my best."
Jim's answer was a note of two words: "My racket!" which, when the great man had perused, he shook his finger warningly and departed, I thought, with a sorrowful countenance. Although Mr. Longhurst knew nothing of Bellairs, the shady lawyer knew all about the Wrecker Boss.
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