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And in England he intended to make his home. Gold, he said, was certainly very attractive; but he did not like New South Wales as a country in which to live. He had now contracted his ventures to the one enterprise of the Polyeuka mine, from which he was receiving large monthly dividends. If that went on prosperously, perhaps he need not return to the colony at all. 'Poor Dick Shand! he said.
And how I remember your a-coming and talking to me across the gate at Polyeuka Hall! 'I remember it very well. 'I didn't know as you were an estated gent in those days. 'I had spent a lot of money when I was young, and the estate, as you call it, was not large enough to bear the loss. So I had to go out and work, and get back what I had squandered. 'And you did it? 'Yes, I did it.
'Yes, I do, said Caldigate, finding himself compelled to say something at the moment, and feeling that he could say so much with positive truth. Then Bollum continued his story, showing that he knew all the circumstances of Polyeuka. 'It was hard on them, wasn't it, Mr. Caldigate? 'I think it was. 'Every rap they had among them, Mr. Caldigate! You left them as bare as the palm of my hand!
'Pooh! what's honesty? There's nothing so smart as honesty. Whatever you got, you got a sure hold of. That's what you mean by honesty. You was clever enough to take care as you had really got it. Now about this Polyeuka business, I'll tell you how it is. I and Jack Adamson and another, as he alluded to the 'other' he winked, 'we believed in Polyeuka; we did. D the cussed hole!
Gray, the reasons which induce me to pay to you, Timothy Crinkett, and to you, Euphemia Smith, the large sum of twenty thousand pounds. The nature of our transactions has been such that I feel bound in honour to repay so much of the price you paid for the Polyeuka mine. 'All right, Caldigate; all right, said Crinkett.
'They have come over here, I suppose, with reference to the sale I made to them lately of my interests at Polyeuka. 'That's about it, said Adamson. 'We won't talk business just at this moment, because we have to eat our breakfast and drink our boy's health. But when that is done, I'll hear what you have to say; or come into Cambridge to-morrow just as you please.
The question of his money was put quite at rest by the transference of all his securities, balances, and documents to the Boltons' bank, and the £60,000 for Polyeuka was accepted, so that there was no longer any need that he should go again to the colony.
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