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And it was difficult to say whether Roden was pleased or not. He did not speak much during the walk, and was evidently wrapped in deep thought. Cornish was light and inconsequent as usual. "We shall soon raise more money," he said. "We shall have malgamite balls, and malgamite bazaars, malgamite balloon ascents if that is not flying too high."
The malgamite trade was what is called a close one that is to say that this product passed out into the world through the hands of a few brokers and these brokers were powerless, in face of Lord Ferriby's announcement, to prevent the price of malgamite from falling. As this fell so fell the prices of the many kinds of paper which could not be manufactured without it.
Wade and Cornish had quitted their carriage, on that which is known as the New Scheveningen Road, and were walking across the dunes to the malgamite works, they met a policeman running towards them. "It is," he answered breathlessly, to their inquiries "it is the English Chemical Works on the dunes, which have caught fire.
I take a certain interest in well in your affairs, and you have never even allowed me to look at the outside of the malgamite works." "Should like to know the extent of your interest," muttered Roden, with his awkward laugh. "I dare say you would," replied Mrs. Vansittart, coolly. "But that is not the question. Here we are at the cross-roads. Shall we go home by the sands and the dunes?"
A second detachment was awaiting their orders at Hamburg. But the principal workers were these now placed under Cornish's care. During the days of their arrival, when they had to be met and housed and cared for, the visionary part of this great scheme had slowly faded before a somewhat grim reality. Joan Ferriby had found the malgamite workers less picturesque than she had anticipated.
And surely these have their reward, for the attention of the multitude, however pleasant it may be while it lasts, is singularly short-lived, and there is nothing more pitiful to watch than the effort to catch it when it has wandered. "Eh er," began his lordship, and everybody paused to listen. "I have here a letter from our clerk at the Malgamite office in Great George Street.
In fact, the makers of malgamite, and fortunately they are comparatively few in number, stricken as they are by a corroding disease, occupy in our midst the er place of the lepers of the Bible." Here Lord Ferriby bowed affably to the bishop, as if to say, "And that is where you come in."
In what may be called the prospectus of the Malgamite scheme it was stated that this great charity was inaugurated for the purpose of relieving the distress of the malgamiters one of the industrial scandals of the day by enabling these afflicted men to make their deadly product at a cheaper rate and without danger to themselves.
For Cornish, having perceived Percy Roden under the trees of the Toornoifeld, had gone out there to speak to him, and in answer to a plain question had received a plain answer as to the price that Lord Ferriby had been paid for the use of his name in the Malgamite Fund transactions.
And it is from that point of view alone, mon ami, that I take a particle of interest in your Malgamite scheme." All of which Tony Cornish remembered later; for it was untrue. He rose to take his leave with polite hopes of seeing her again. "Oh, do not hurry away," she said. "I am expecting Dorothy Roden, who promised to come to tea. She will be disappointed not to see you."
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