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Also, he heard the popping of bottle corks and the clink of glass, betokening that the governor's party was still celebrating its successful race for the train. Singularly enough, Ormsby's reflections concerned themselves chiefly with the small dishonesty. "I suppose it all goes into the receiver's expense account and the railroad pays for it," he said to himself.
Bud was snatched from his carols by the arrival of Amarilly, who was far too practical to hearken to hymns when there was work to be performed. "I got the money Miss Ormsby's owed us so long," she announced in a tone of satisfaction, "and that jest makes up the money to git back the surplus. I'll give you carfare one way, Bud, and you must go to the bishop's and git it. I'm too beat to go.
The patient declared that he was not yet capable of attending to details, but he wanted to see the check signed by Herresford and presented by Dick Swinton. "Which check?" asked Mr. Barnby; "the one for two thousand or the one for five thousand? I have them both." "There are two, then?" Ormsby's eyes glistened. "Yes, with the same strange discoloration of the ink.
She sat with her father in a carriage near where Van Buren Street ends at the Boulevard. As the men kept crowding in about them she clutched nervously at the sleeve of David Ormsby's coat. "He is going to speak," she whispered and pointed. Her tense air of expectancy expressed much of the feeling of the crowd. "See, listen, he is going to speak out."
Pressed to give a reason for her dissatisfaction, the younger sister might have been at a loss to account for it in words; but Elinor's desire to cut the outing short was based upon pride and militant shame. After many trap-settings she had succeeded in making her mother confess that the stay at Breezeland was at Ormsby's expense; and not all of Mrs.
Dick would take the check to the bank for her, so that she need not face any inquisitive, staring clerks; and, when it was exchanged for notes, she would be able to get rid of the loathly creature sitting in the hall. "Who presented this check?" Vivian Ormsby, son of the banker, sat in his private room at Ormsby's Bank, examining a check for two thousand dollars, and a cashier stood at his side.
Vivian Ormsby had just looked in at the bank for a few minutes, and he was in a hurry. "Young Mr. Swinton presented it, sir," the cashier explained. Vivian Ormsby's eyes narrowed as he scrutinized the check more closely. "Leave it with me," he commanded, "and count out the notes." As soon as he was alone, he went to a cupboard and took out a magnifying glass. "Ye gods! Forgery!
"Stole his grandfather's money! What do you mean?" "Why, the money they say he got from the bank. Bah! the Ormsby's are a bad lot. I'd rather deal with the Jews. It was his grandfather he thought he was cheating, perhaps that isn't like stealing from other people. But this I will say, Swinton: your wife, she might have told a lie to save the boy."
Hardcastle was affronted by the part I took in this affair. He complained that I had behaved in a very ungentlemanlike manner, and had spirited the tenants away from Lady Ormsby's estate, against the regulation which he had laid down for all the tenants not to emigrate from the estate.
And if you change it now, he'll make you change it again, and the next time, and the next after that I know he will! Here Ormsby's voice shouted from below, 'Now then, you, Cameron, time's up! 'What is he doing down there? asked Marjory, and her indignation rose higher when she heard. 'Now, Cameron, be brave; go down and tell him once for all he may just keep what he has, and be thankful.
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