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We shall in all probability sit down thirty or more to dinner." "A responsibility for you," said Ashe ingratiatingly, well pleased to be quit of the feet topic. Mr. Beach nodded. "You are right, Mr. Marson. Few persons realize the responsibilities of a man in my position. Sometimes, I can assure you, it preys on my mind, and I suffer from nervous headaches."
"He minds everybody's business as well as his own." The last of the procession trickled into the steward's room. Mr. Beach said grace somewhat patronizingly. The meal began. "You've seen Miss Peters, of course, Mr. Marson?" said Miss Willoughby, resuming conversation with the soup. "Just for a few minutes at Paddington." "Oh! You haven't been with Mr. Peters long, then?"
Now when it lacked but half an hour of midnight, and Jack o' the Tofts and Oliver Marson and the Captain of Woodwall had just left him, after they had settled the order of the next day's journey, and Goldilind lay abed in the inner chamber, there entered one of the men of the watch and said: "Lord King, here is a man hereby who would see thee; he is weaponed, and he saith that he hath a gift for thee: what shall we do with him?"
His heavy-lidded eyes rested on Ashe with disapproval. It seemed to Beach, the butler, that this young man Marson had got above himself. Ashe found Joan at his side. Dinner was over and the diners were making for the housekeeper's room. "Thank you, Mr. Marson. That was very good of you and very clever." Her eyes twinkled. "But what a terrible chance you took!
Here a nephew of Mr Amschel Rothschild assisted them in obtaining a vessel to take them to Malta, where they visited the plantations of the Silk Company on the ditch of Porto Reale. There were about 5000 mulberry trees at this place, as well as about 400 at Sal Marson, "all looking healthy.
"Say pig-headed; I shan't mind. Certainly I am! A girl has got to be, even nowadays, if she wants to play fair. Listen, Mr. Marson; I will not have the dead mouse. I do not like dead mice. If you attempt to work off your dead mouse on me this partnership ceases before it has begun. If we are to work together we are going to make alternate attempts to get the scarab.
Marson; here you are in the biggest city in the world, with chances for adventure simply shrieking to you on every side." "I must be deaf. The only thing I have heard shrieking to me on every side has been Mrs. Bell for the week's rent." "Read the papers. Read the advertisement columns. I'm sure you will find something sooner or later. Don't get into a groove. Be an adventurer.
"I yea-say it," said the Baron; "and now do thou, rank reiver, go back to thy fellowship and tell them what we have areded, and do thou, Oliver Marson, do so much for our folk; and bid them wot this, that if any of them break the troth, he shall lose nought more than his life for that same." Therewith all went ashore to either bank, save the Baron of Brimside and Christopher.
He stopped, to allow the statuesque Miss Chester to sail out under escort of a wizened little man with a horseshoe pin in his tie, whose name, in company with nearly all the others that had been spoken to him since he came into the room, had escaped Ashe's memory. "You were nearly making a bloomer!" said Miss Willoughby brightly. "You must be absent-minded, Mr. Marson like his lordship."
Ashe Marson found Joan Valentine in the stable yard after breakfast the next morning, playing with a retriever puppy. "Will you spare me a moment of your valuable time?" "Certainly, Mr. Marson." "Shall we walk out into the open somewhere where we can't be overheard?" "Perhaps it would be better." They moved off. "Request your canine friend to withdraw," said Ashe.
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