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He would come home to breakfast about seven in the morning, very tired, but never owning that he was tired, and then sleep heavily for an hour or two in a chair. After that he would go out again on the run, would sleep perhaps for another hour after dinner, and then would start for his night's patrol. During this week he saw nothing of Medlicot, and never mentioned his name but once.
The first man he met was Nokes, who acted as overseer, having a gang of Polynesian laborers under him sleek, swarthy fellows from the South Sea Islands, with linen trowsers on and nothing else who crept silently among the vats and machinery, shifting the sugar as it was made. "Well, Nokes," said Harry, "how are you getting on? Is Mr. Medlicot here?"
"Do you help to look to things?" "I suppose I do something. I often feel ashamed to think how very little it is. As for that, I'm not wanted at all." "So that you're free to go elsewhere?" "I didn't mean that, Mr. Medlicot; only I know I'm not of much use." "But if you had a house of your own?"
Medlicot, when he was left alone, took two or three turns about the mill, as though inspecting the work, but at every turn fixed his eyes for a few moments on Noke's face. The man was standing under a huge caldron regulating the escape of the boiling juice into the different vats by raising and lowering a trap, and giving directions to the Polynesians as he did so.
There are people whom I find it very comfortable to quarrel with. I shouldn't at all like not to quarrel with the Brownbies, and I'm not at all sure it mayn't come to be the same with Mr. Giles Medlicot." "The Brownbies live by sheep-stealing and horse-stealing." "And Medlicot means to live by employing sheep-stealers and horse- stealers. You can go if you like it.
He suspected no one with a positive suspicion, except Nokes, and Medlicot as the supporter of Nokes. But he had no one with whom he could converse freely none whom he had not been accustomed to treat as the mere ministers of his will except his wife and his wife's sister; and now he was disjoined from them by their sympathy with Medlicot!
But yet there's something in it. One likes to think of the old place, though one is so far away. How do you feel now? Does the jolting hurt you much? If your horse is rough, change with me. This fellow goes as smooth as a lady." Medlicot declared that the pain did not trouble him much. "They'd have ridden over us, only for you," continued Harry.
My going or staying won't make any difference to Heathcote. There's a lot of 'em about here hates him that much that he is never to be allowed to rest in peace. I tell you that fairly. It ain't any thing as I shall do. Them's not my ways, Mr. Medlicot. But he has enemies here as'll never let him rest." "Who are they?" "Pretty nigh every body round.
Nokes was aware that some one on horseback had been near him when he was firing the grass, but had thought that it was one of the party from Gangoil. By the time that Jerry Brownbie had reached the German, Medlicot was there also. "Who the deuce are you?" asked Jerry. "What business is that of yours?" said Medlicot. "No business of mine, and you firing our grass!
What you sell you part with readily like a man; and it's not likely that you and I shall quarrel. But all this row about nothing can't be very pleasant to a man with a broken shoulder." "I like to hear you," said Medlicot. "I'm always a good listener when men have something really to say." "Well, then, I've something to say," cried Harry.
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