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'Information? asked Polglaze, as Vandeloup was going. 'Oh! you'd like to know where I got it, said M. Vandeloup, amiably. 'Very sorry I can't tell you; but you see, my dear sir, I am not a woman, and can keep a secret. Vandeloup walked out, and Polglaze looked after him with a puzzled look, then summed up his opinion in one word, sharp, incisive, and to the point
Having thus arranged for Kitty's future, Gaston went along to his broker, and found that the astute Polglaze had got him his shares. 'Going up, said Polglaze, as he handed the scrip to Vandeloup and got a cheque in exchange. 'Oh, indeed! said Vandeloup, with a smile. 'I suppose my two friends have begun their little game already, he thought, as he slipped the scrip into his breast pocket.
Then he reentered his hansom, and went along to the office of a stockbroker, called Polglaze, who was a member of 'The Bachelors', and in whose hands Vandeloup intended to place his business.
On the morning of the funeral, Uncle Thomas himself tied scraps of crape around the stems of his tall geraniums, according to an ancient custom; and Mrs. Tregenza arrived at Drift in good time to join the few who mourned. Six men bore Joan's oaken coffin to Sancreed, while there walked behind her, Uncle Chirgwin, Mary and Thomasin, Mr. Bartlett, his wife, Gaffer Polglaze, and two farm maidens.
'Clever! said Polglaze, and put the cheque in his safe. Vandeloup strolled along the street thinking. 'Bebe is out of my way, he thought, with a smile; 'I have a small fortune in my pocket, and, he continued, thoughtfully, 'Madame Midas is in Melbourne. I think now, said M. Vandeloup, with another smile, 'that I have conquered the blind goddess.
Polglaze was a short, stout man, scrupulously neatly dressed, with iron grey hair standing straight up, and a habit of dropping out his words one at a time, so that the listener had to construct quite a little history between each, in order to arrive at their meaning, and the connection they had with one another.
Any particulars not mentioned in the bills would be readily furnished on application at the office of the vendor's solicitors; and parties wishing to inspect the premises might obtain the keys from Miss Belcher's lodge-keeper, Mr. Polglaze that is to say, from the nearest dwelling-house down the road.
Ban't no good for me to sit an' look at her, poor fond wummon." He busied himself with the hurdle accordingly, and when two of the hands presently came down from Drift they found their burden ready for them. The old, silent man called Gaffer Polglaze found sufficient excitement in the tragedy to loosen a tongue which seldom wagged.
'Depends on the price, replied Vandeloup, with a shrug; 'I see in the papers they are four shillings. Mr Polglaze took up his share book, and rapidly turned over the leaves found what he wanted, and nodded. 'Oh! said Vandeloup, making a rapid mental calculation, 'then buy me two thousand five hundred. That will be about five hundred pounds' worth. Mr Polglaze nodded; then whistled.
Bartlett answered: "The unhappy creature was fine an' emperent to me 'bout a matter o' drownin' chets in the spring. Yet here she'm drowned herself sure 'nough. Well, well, God's will be done." "Her eyes do make me wimbly-wambly in the stomach," declared the second laborer; "when you've done talkin', Gaffer Polglaze, us'll go up-long, an' the sooner the better." "Butivul eyes, tu, they was wance.
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