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At long intervals we met him on our way to or from the Gardens, and, if there was none from Pilkington's to mark him, methought he looked at us somewhat longingly, as if beneath his real knickerbockers a morsel of the egg-shell still adhered. Otherwise he gave David a not unfriendly kick in passing, and called him "youngster." That was about all.
Rickman's eyes were wandering dreamily from the matter in hand. They had alighted on an enormous photograph of Miss Poppy Grace. For an instant thought, like a cloud, obscured the brilliance of Mr. Pilkington's face. "Anyhow I've given you the straight tip," said Pilkington. "Thanks. We'll send a fellow down to overhaul the thing." "He'd better hurry up then.
Oliver nudged David and retired a few paces, whereupon David said to me solemnly, "Oliver is going to Pilkington's." I immediately perceived that it was some school, but so little did I understand the import of David's remark that I called out jocularly, "I hope he won't swish you, Oliver."
It would appear by Smith's relation, that our youth, instead of supporting his father, had all along been depending on his help; this, however, contradicts not only Hassell, but Fuseli also, who, in his edition of Pilkington's Dictionary, accuses the elder Morland of avariciously pocketing the whole profits of his son's productions.
That one thing was the fact that, up to the day of the dress rehearsal, the expenses of the production had amounted to the appalling sum of thirty-two thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars, sixty-eight cents, all of which had to come out of Mr Pilkington's pocket. The figures, presented to him in a neatly typewritten column stretching over two long sheets of paper, had stunned him.
Statutes of the Realm, iv, Pt. ii, 968-9. Cardwell, Doc. Ann., i, 189 ff. Dr. Pilkington's will, Surtees Soc., xxii, Append., p. cxxxviii. Ibid., p. cx ff. Kelke's will of 1583, on p. 230. Also Wills and Inventories, Surtees Soc., xxxviii, Pt. ii, passim. Surrey Wills in Surrey Arch. Coll., x , passim. Ibid., 263.
"What do you mean you own the piece?" Mr Goble at length gurgled. "I bought it." "You bought it!" "I bought Mr Pilkington's share through a lawyer for ten thousand dollars." "Ten thousand dollars! Where did you get ten thousand dollars?" Light broke upon Mr Goble. The thing became clear to him. "Damn it!" he cried. "I might have known you had some man behind you!
"Ah, yes . . . yes," he murmured vaguely. "Yes!" "Well, there are thirteen here. Count 'em for yourself." He whipped round on Jill. "What's your name? Who engaged you?" A croaking sound from the neighborhood of the ceiling indicated the clearing of Mr Pilkington's throat. "I er I engaged Miss Mariner, Mr Goble." "Oh, you engaged her?" He stared again at Jill.
Yes, I am the instrument selected for the murder of Pilkington's artistic aspirations. I'm going to rewrite the show. In fact, I have already rewritten the first act and most of the second. Goble foresaw this contingency and told me to get busy two weeks ago, and I've been working hard ever since.
He bowed to Miss Harden; an extraordinary bow. No words could have conveyed the exquisite intimations of Mr. Pilkington's spine. It was as if he had said to her, "Madam, you needn't be afraid; in your presence I am all deference and chivalry and restraint." But no sooner had Dicky achieved this admirable effect of refinement than he spoilt it all by the glance he levelled at young Rickman.
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