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"That's the trouble. We have got to wait." Jake made a sign of agreement and Carrie said nothing. She knew her brother and imagined she understood Jim's quietness. After a time, the latter resumed: "I've been thinking, and the matter puzzles me. We're up against the big contractors. They'd be glad to see us broke and Probyn took two of our outfit when we stopped at the hotel.
Lady Probyn played the part of hostess and chaperoned her pretty niece; but she was not in the least like the aunt of fiction on the contrary, she was comparatively young in years and almost comically young in mind; her niece was devoted to her, and the moment I saw her I knew that our cruise could not possibly be dull.
Here's a thousand dollars; they're yours for picking up and you take no risk. If you refuse and hold down the contract, you'll certainly go broke." "It's possible," said Carrie. "All the same, we mean to hold it down." Probyn shrugged. "Then I quit. If you can put the job over, you're luckier than I think." He went off and Carrie sat down. "Looks as if I came along when I was needed.
"I have no idea what a hero is like." Just then Lady Probyn came up, followed by an elderly harpy in spectacles and false, much-frizzed fringe. "Mrs. Carsteen wishes to be introduced to you, Mr. Vaughan; she is a great admirer of your writings."
It would be something of a relief to get their money back. "I don't know who you are and why you want to buy us off," he said. "Then I'll put you wise. I'm Probyn, Cartner and Dawson's man. They wanted the new branch-line job, and if you get out, it, will go to them. Anyhow, you can't put it over.
The deafening babble and frantic gesticulations were perfectly explicable to Probyn, and he apprehended no danger. The head man of the village had not yet appeared, and until he came this wild license of behaviour would continue.
On the 12th the enemy made frequent sorties from the Lahore and Ajmir Gates with bodies of cavalry and foot, while a party of horsemen crossed the canal, and made for the right rear of the camp. The latter were seen by the Guides and some Punjabi cavalry, who, led by Probyn and Watson, advanced to meet the enemy.
"Ah, that may very well be; they were hard up for a paragraph, no doubt, and inserted it. But, as for Derrick, why, how should he marry? He has been madly in love with Miss Merrifield ever since our cruise in the Aurora." Lady Probyn made an inarticulate exclamation. "Poor fellow!" she said, after a minute's thought; "that explains much to me."
Tell him you undertook the job and are going to make good." Jake shrugged humorously and turned to Jim. "Well, I guess we needed bracing. What do you say, partner?" "We'll hold on." Probyn frowned. "Is the dame a member of the firm?" "She is," Jake said, smiling. "In fact, when we're up against it, she's the boss partner." "Very well. I want you to get this, miss.
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