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Powl tells me his don't curl no more than that much twine by nature. Gettin' old, the Viscount is. He 'AVE gone the pace, 'aven't 'e, sir? 'The fact is, said I, 'that I know very little about him. Our family has been much divided, and I have been a soldier from a child. 'A soldier, Mr. Anne, sir? cried Rowley, with a sudden feverish animation. 'Was you ever wounded?
Come to think of it we had better see to that first of all," he went on, unlocking the door. "Get hold of Powl, and see. And be quick back, and clear me up this mess." Mr. Rowley was no sooner gone than the lawyer took a pinch of snuff, and regarded me with somewhat of a more genial expression. "Sir," said he, "it is very fortunate for you that your face is so strong a letter of recommendation.
'Now, Rowley, hold up your right hand and repeat the words of the oath after me, said I, laying the despatch-box on the table. 'Strike me blue if I ever disclose to Mr. Powl, or Mr. Powl's Viscount, or anything that is Mr. Powl's, not to mention Mr. Rowley's Viscount. So be it. Amen. He took the oath with the same exaggerated seriousness as I gave it to him.
'Mr. Powl had no fear of me. You may be sure, sir, I should never 'ave had this berth if I 'adn't 'ave been up to Dick. We been expecting of you this month back. My eye! I never see such preparations. Every day the fires has been kep' up, the bed made, and all! As soon as it was known you were coming, sir, I got the appointment; and I've been up and down since then like a Jack-in-the-box.
Well, George Rowley, you might embrace some early opportunity to earn that half-guinea, by telling Mr. Powl that your master will not leave here till noon to-morrow, if he go even then. Tell him there are a hundred things to be done here, and a hundred more that can only be done properly at my office in Holborn.
And in giving me the name of Mr. Anne, I assure you you will be quite regular." "Yes, Mr. Anne," said the docile youth. "But about the shaving, sir, you need be under no alarm. Mr. Powl says I 'ave excellent dispositions." "Mr. Powl?" said I. "That doesn't seem to me very like a French name." "No, sir, indeed, my lord," said he, with a burst of confidence. "No, indeed, Mr.
Anne, and it do not surely. I should say now, it was more like Mr. Pole. 'And Mr. Powl is the Viscount's man? 'Yes, Mr. Anne, said he. 'He 'ave a hard billet, he do. The Viscount is a very particular gentleman. I don't think as you'll be, Mr. Anne? he added, with a confidential smile in the mirror.
And in giving me the name of Mr. Anne, I assure you you will be quite regular. 'Yes, Mr. Anne, said the docile youth. 'But about the shaving, sir, you need be under no alarm. Mr. Powl says I 'ave excellent dispositions. 'Mr. Powl? said I. 'That doesn't seem to me very like a French name. 'No, sir, indeed, my lord, said he, with a burst of confidence. 'No, indeed, Mr.
You have more to tell us, or your face belies you!" "Mr. Anne, I do," he said. "Mr. Romaine, sir, you're a friend of his, ain't you?" "Yes, George, I am a friend of his," said Romaine, and, to my great surprise, laid his hand upon my shoulder. "Well, it's this way," said Rowley; "Mr. Powl have been at me! It's to play the spy! I thought he was at it from the first!
Powl tells me his don't curl no more than that much twine by nature. Gettin' old, the Viscount is. He 'ave gone the pace, 'aven't 'e, sir?" "The fact is," said I, "that I know very little about him. Our family has been much divided, and I have been a soldier from a child." "A soldier, Mr. Anne, sir?" cried Rowley, with a sudden feverish animation. "Was you ever wounded?"
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