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I knew you'd come out of it all right, but I had a difficult game to play, don't you know? I don't wonder that you didn't follow me just at first." "You've lost your game," said Paul; "it's no use to say any more. So now, perhaps, you'll go?" "Go, eh?" said Paradine, without showing much surprise at the failure of so very forlorn a hope, "oh, very well, just as you please, of course.
"Give papa the Stone by all means," sneered Paradine. "If you do, he will find some one to wish the pair of you back again, and then, back you go to school again, the laughing-stock of everybody, you silly young cub!" "Don't listen to him, Dick," urged Paul. "Give it to me, for Heaven's sake; if you let him have it, he'll use it to ruin us all."
Don't let that Stone out of my hands for anyone." "Why, I only wanted to look at it for a minute or two," said Marmaduke; "I wouldn't hurt it or lose it." "You won' get chance," said Dick. "Oh, very well," said Paradine carelessly, "just as you please, it doesn't matter; though when we come to talk things over a little, you may find it better to trust me more than that."
"Very well expressed," thought Paul, who had been getting uncomfortable; "he has a heart, as he said, after all!" "How does that seem to strike you?" added Paradine. "It shtrikes me as awful rot," said Dick, with refreshing candour. "It's the language of conscience, but I don't expect you to see it in the same light.
"Tell them to anyone you can get to believe you tell the crossing-sweeper and the policemen, tell your grandmother, tell the horse-marines it will amuse them. Only, you shall tell them on the other side of my front door. Shall I call anyone to show you out?" Paradine saw his game was really played out, and swaggered insolently to the door: "Not on my account, I beg," he said.
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