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Updated: June 16, 2025
A very hasty investigation showed him there was nothing to be learned from those bare walls and that inviolable cylinder-topped desk. He scribbled a few lines of commonplace at a table by the window, sealed and addressed his note, and then departed to despatch his telegram, "Phoenicians are rising rapidly," he wrote, and that was all. He signed the despatch Frederick Orcott.
"Phil and Orcott may settle the business between them," he said to himself, as he forged the Yorkshireman's name. "What I have to do is to get Phil away, and give Hawkehurst a chance of saving Tom Halliday's daughter; and I shan't stand upon trifles in the doing of it." After having despatched this telegram, George Sheldon found himself much too restless and excited for ordinary business.
He gave us liberal terms, and we considered any paper of his as safe as a Bank of England note; and now this confounded bill comes back to us through our bankers, noted, 'Refer to drawer' a most unpleasant thing, you know, and very inconsiderate of Sheldon to leave us in such a fix." "He has forgotten the bill, I suppose," said Mr. Orcott.
Orcott; they don't seem to have any London offices?" "I believe not. We've some of their prospectuses somewhere about, I think. Would you like to see one?" "I should, very much." Mr. Orcott opened two or three drawers, and after some little trouble produced the required document.
"I'll go down to Bayswater, and see if I can hear anything of your governor," he said to Mr. Orcott. "He was not there yesterday when I called, and his servants could tell me nothing of his whereabouts," the young Yorkshireman said very coolly. "Indeed!" cried the holder of the dishonoured bill in some alarm. "Now, really, that is not right; a business man ought not to do that kind of thing."
"You have heard nothing of your brother?" "Well, no nothing, or next to nothing. I called at his office yesterday. He has not been there since the beginning of Charlotte's illness, and there has been no letter or message for Orcott since your wedding-day. Things look rather piscatorial, altogether.
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