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Vansittart to suppose that he was a rich man, for he was shrewd enough to know that the affections, like all else in this world, are purchasable. "And there is no reason," suggested Mrs. Vansittart, "why you should not go on doing a large business, as you say your method of producing malgamite is an absolute secret." "Absolute."
"It is unreasoning, I know, and foolish, but I am convinced that he is running into danger." She stopped suddenly, and laid her hand upon Dorothy's; for she had caught many foreign ways and gestures. "Listen," she said, in a lower tone. "It is useless for you and me to mince matters. The Malgamite scheme is a terrible crime, and Tony Cornish means to stop it.
"Well, ask her," replied Dorothy a woman's answer. "And then?" "And then let us go away from here." Roden turned on her angrily. "Why do you keep on repeating that?" he cried. "Why do you want to go away from here?" "Because," replied Dorothy, as angry as himself, "you know as well as I do that the Malgamite scheme is not what it pretends to be.
"And," he cried, sitting upright and banging his heavy fist down on the arm of his chair "and there are millions in your malgamite works at the Hague millions. If it were only honest it would be the finest monopoly the world has ever seen for two years, but no longer. At the end of that period the paper-makers will have had time to combine and make their own stuff then they'll smash you.
"They are malgamite workers," answered Cornish, cheerily. "And I am going to make men of them not ghosts." The purser looked at him, laughed in rather a puzzled way, and quitted the bridge. Cornish remained there, taking a quick, intelligent interest in the manoeuvres by which the great steamer was being brought alongside the quay.
Uncle Ben expectorated with much emphasis, looked towards the malgamite works with a dubious shake of the head, and went on his way, muttering, "Soddim and Gomorrer." His hearers walked on over the sand-hills towards the smoke, of which the pungent odour, still faintly suggestive of sealing-wax, reached their nostrils. At the top of a high dune, surmounted with considerable difficulty, Mr.
This paper could only be manufactured with a large addition of malgamite to its other components.
Then he seated himself in a carriage alone, with a sigh of relief at the thought that in a few days he would be back in London. His responsibility ended at The Hague, where he was to hand over the malgamite workers to the care of Roden and Von Holzen.
People read it, and having found a new plaything bicycles, I suppose did not care two pins what became of the malgamite scheme, and yet they were not left in a position to be able to say that they had never heard that the thing had been turned into a company."
One, carrying a bird-cage, half paused, with a sort of pride, that Cornish might obtain a fuller view of a depressed canary. The malgamite workers of this winter's morning on the pier of Hoek were not the interesting industrials of Lady Ferriby's drawing-room. There their lives had been spoken of as short and merry. Here the merriment was scarcely perceptible.
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