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We had been thirty hours without a bite, and suffered severe pains, probably from the marsh water we had drunk and had to drink. "Two hundred kegs of fine French cognac we dropped overboard outside Poole Harbour," groaned Le Marchant one time, "and a mouthful of it now !" Ay, a mouthful of it just then would have been new life to us.
He says himself in his letters that Iyeyasu never refused him anything that he asked for, * except the privilege of revisiting England: when he asked that, once too often, the "ould Emperour" remained silent. The one was called Gilbert de Conning, whose mother dwelleth at Middleborough, who gaue himself out to be marchant of all the goods in the shippe.
Indeed, the police succeeded in showing that it was just for that trouble that Marchant was going to Karatoff, which, to my mind, seemed quite sufficient to establish the therapeutic hypnotist as all that Gaines had accused him of being. Even to my lay mind the treatment of arteriosclerosis by mental healing seemed, to say the least, incongruous.
He is doing a fine, generous thing, and it is the right thing, and I think we must put up with Joe Marchant, Elsie, after all." "Oh, I don't mind, if you don't, mamma; but I thought you wouldn't like it, and it would spoil the day." "No, nothing done in that spirit could spoil the day; and, Elsie, I hope the rest of you will make your choice of guests with as good reason as Tommy has."
In the first place, I found that digitalis had been put in Marchant's tea." "They'll be here directly," I reported from the telephone, hanging it up and joining them again. "It couldn't have been an accident, as Karatoff said," went on Kennedy, rapidly. "The drug increased the blood pressure of Marchant, who was already suffering from hardening of the arteries.
"Hold that man!" he cried, throwing himself at the valet. "He's Marchant, the Yankee hotel robber hold him in the King's name I'm a police officer, and I have a warrant." Now, this was something if you like, and I don't think any one is going to wonder either at my surprise, or at the hesitation which overtook me.
Then there's the jeweller he must be warned in the same way, and the necklace returned. I presume you don't want to keep it." Cornelia shuddered. "Oh, no. I could never wear it. But when Poppar comes over I'll make him buy me something else instead. Mr Marchant shan't lose! I guess I'd better drive there straight away, and then to the bank.
And he was strong with the strength of many purposeful men behind him, every man as heartless as himself, and Le Marchant and I were but two. My head swam at thought of the odds between us, and hope grew sick in me. My sole idea of escape, under the spur of that great fear, had been to get to the boat and make for home.
But Le Marchant, having less at stake, so far as he knew at all events, had his wits more in hand, and used them to better purpose. For, supposing we got away all right in the dark, Torode's schooner could sail four feet to our one, and if he sighted us we should be completely at his mercy, a most evil and cruel thing to trust to.
I was able to walk two or three steps by leaning upon two of the party, but the pain was very severe. Wind, south-east; a few clouds about. Wednesday, 12th November, Marchant Springs, The Finke. As I am not certain of water at the next two camps, I will rest the horses as well as myself here to-day, for we both require it very much; it will enable them to stand a long push if required.
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