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Updated: May 11, 2025
The Captain of the Spanish ship was now relieved of his duties and also of his cabin, which the German Captain had annexed, leaving the owner thereof the chartroom to sleep in and was naturally very chagrined at the course events had taken, especially as he said he had been informed by the Consul at Lourenço Marques that the course between there and Colombo was quite clear, and had not even been informed of the disappearance of the Hitachi, though she had been overdue at Delagoa Bay about a month.
When he found out, this last spring, that I was goin' to lose my place, he lent me money enough to pay the interest that was overdue on the mortgage, of his own acord." And he stopped suddenly. "You have certainly explained yourself," said the foreman. "I think we understand you distinctly." "There isn't one word of truth in that idea," said Eli, flushing up, "and you know it.
It pays, you see, if you can hold out. People like a fellow who isn't always clamouring to come home and you bet I never did. But, finally, I took an overdue leave and a hunk of savings and trekked back. I'd always planned it a good time, you know but somehow it hasn't come off. I expect I left it too long.
Tommy, the little Englishman, clerk at the trading post, was called in by El-Soo to help. There was nothing but debts, notes overdue, mortgaged properties, and properties mortgaged but worthless. Tommy called him a robber many times as he pondered the compounding of the interest. "Is it a debt, Tommy?" El-Soo asked. "It is a robbery," Tommy answered. "Nevertheless, it is a debt," she persisted.
Then he had his salary from the Government, which he delicately hints at in one of his extant letters as being overdue. Altogether Defoe was exceedingly prosperous, dropped all pretence of poverty, built a large house at Stoke Newington, with stables and pleasure-grounds, and kept a coach.
When he can't think of any more lies, he starts on the truth, but in this he is a decided failure. He is afraid of being found out. For instance, a merchant will approach a Boer respecting an overdue account. The Boer will at once plead poverty, and speculate on how he can possibly manage to liquidate his liability. The Boer's diplomacy is weak, and he falls into the trap.
And they asked me to come to them for a visit but I couldn't very well; they live with his mother, you know, Amanda Price Little, who writes the letters to the Chronicle about educating children and all that. Doctor Younger and George Sewall were here every day; you and George were named as executors. I was so mixed up in policies and deeds and overdue taxes and interest and bonds "
But my bed-fellow under the bed was a detective; and he spent most of his time during the night pressing pieces of ice against my injured heels, to precipitate, as I thought, my overdue confession. The piece of ice in the pitcher of water which usually stood on the table sometimes clinked against the pitcher's side as its center of gravity shifted through melting.
A tall, good-looking peasant, a stone-mason, of about fifty, stepped out from the rest. He told Nekhludoff that all of them had been ordered back to their homes and were now being kept in prison because they had no passports, yet they had passports which were only a fortnight overdue.
What had happened to it, and to the urchin he had left in charge of it? He owed a thousand dollars on its purchase, which he had promised to pay yesterday. Then, too, he had neglected his house account at the University Club, and it was long overdue. That remittance from his father had come just in the nick of time.
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