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Orde, continued its work under Mr. Orde's successors; and elementary instruction was imparted therein to a heterogeneous crowd of children English, Eurasians, and Indians Christians and Hindus. Eventually the school was put in charge of the chaplain of St.
"For a one tenth of Orde's share in case he does not meet those notes." "But he vill meet the notes," objected Heinzman. "You are a prosperous concern. I know somethings of YOUR business, also." "He thinks he will," rejoined Newmark grimly. "I will merely point out to you that his entire income is from the firm, and that from this income he must save twenty-odd thousand a year.
The door was answered by the same man who had opened the night before, but now, in some indefinable way, his calm, while flawless externally, seemed to have lifted to a mere surface, as though he might hastily have assumed his coat. To Orde's inquiry he stated with great brevity that Miss Bishop was not yet visible, and prepared to close the door.
"Hullo there, commodore! what is it?" replied the tug captain. The red-faced figure glared down for a moment. "They want a tug up there at Heinzman's. Can you go?" "Sure!" cried Marsh, choking. The LUCY BELLE sheered off magnificently. "What do you think of that?" Marsh asked Orde. "The commodore always acts as if that old raft was a sixty-gun frigate," was Orde's non-committal answer.
"Well, we'll just try not to hang her," replied Orde. Orde's bank account, in spite of his laughing assertion to Newmark, contained some eleven hundred dollars. After a brief but comprehensive tour of inspection over all the works then forward, he drew a hundred of this and announced to Newmark that business would take him away for about two weeks.
An old-fashioned service of smooth silver and ivory-handled steel knives gave distinction to the plain white linen. A tea-pot smothered in a "cosey" stood at Grandma Orde's right. A sirloin roast on a noble platter awaited Grandpa Orde's knife. Orde dropped into his place with satisfaction. "Shut up, Cheep!" he remarked to a frantic canary hanging in the sunshine.
Add to this a happy and complete disregard of consequences to himself or others of anything he did, and, in his own words, he was a "hard man to nick." As yet the season was too early for much joy along Hell's Half-Mile. Orde's little crew, and the forty or fifty men of the drive that had preceded him, constituted the rank and file at that moment in town.
I'll tell you: you organize your club, and have a regular time to shoot every week. I'll appoint Martin Chief Inspector; but it must be distinctly understood that there is to be no shooting unless he's here." Martin was the "hired man" about Grandpa Orde's place. The children fell on the idea with alacrity, and at once adjourned to Bobby's room. Carter Irvine suggested formal organization.
The loss of $60,000 or so on them, however, did not mean a diminution of the company's present cash resources to that amount; and so did not immediately affect Orde's calculations as to the payment of the notes which were now soon to come due. At this time the woods work increasingly demanded his attention.
More of a business man might have reflected that Newmark, as financial head, should have protected the firm against all contingencies; should have seen to it that it met Heinzman's notes, instead of tying up its resources in unnecessary ways. Orde's own delinquency bulked too large in his eyes to admit his perception of this.
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