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"Oh, pardon me, it's perfectly clear! you're not your own son, but your own father it's a little confusing at first, but no doubt common enough. I'm glad you mentioned it, though." "Go on," said Paul bitterly, "make light of it you fancy you are being very clever, but you will find out the truth in time!" "Not without external assistance, I'm afraid," said Paradine calmly.
"A good idea that, Paul, my boy," said Paradine, smiling; "but you don't imagine our young friend would be quite such an idiot as not to see your game! Why, he would pitch the Stone in the gutter or stamp it to powder, rather than let you get hold of it." "He's quite capable of it," said Paul; "in fact, he threatened to do worse than that.
If he was so clever in deceiving Dick, might he not be cheating him, too, just as completely? He could wait no longer, but burst from behind the screen and rushed in between the pair. "Go back!" screamed Paradine. "You infernal old idiot, you've ruined everything!" "I won't go back," said Paul, "I don't believe in you. I'll hide no longer. Dick, I forbid you to trust that man."
"You are," Paradine assented with a loud laugh, "oh, you are indeed! 'a desperate man. Capital! a stern chase, eh? the schoolmaster close behind with the birch! It's quite exciting, you know, but, seriously, I'm very much afraid you'll catch it!" "If," began Mr.
Paul knew him at once, though he had not seen him for some years; it was Paradine, his disreputable brother-in-law the "Uncle Marmaduke" who, by importing the mysterious Garudâ Stone, had brought all these woes upon him; he noticed at once that his appearance was unusually prosperous, and that the braided smoking coat he wore over his evening clothes was new and handsome.
Don' wanter quarrel anybody." "That's right," said Paradine. "I knew you were a noble fellow!" "Sho I am," said Dick, shaking hands with effusion. "Sho are you. Nearly ash noble 'sh me. There, you're jolly good fellow. I say, I've goo' mind tell you something. Make you laugh. But I won't; not now." "Oh, you can tell me," said Marmaduke. "No secrets between friends, you know."
Marmaduke Paradine, his brother-in-law, was not a connection of whom he had much reason to feel particularly proud.
"I have some recollection of giving her something of that kind. A curiosity, wasn't it?" "I wish I had never seen it. That infernal stone, Paradine, has done all this to me. Did no one tell you it was supposed to have any magic power?"
Paradine's face as he met Paul's eyes with a knowing wink, which the latter did not at all understand. Such audacity astonished him, for he could hardly believe that Paradine, after his perfidious conduct in the billiard-room, could have the clumsy impudence to try to propitiate him now. "Here he is, my boy," shouted Paradine; "here's the scamp who has given us all this trouble!
"That's much better," whispered Paradine approvingly; "capital. Keep it up, my boy; keep it up! Papa's as quiet as a lamb now. Go on."
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