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That is, between ourselves, all-powerful." Benham frowned. "Norburn! Much Norburn would do for me." "Why, does he know you?" asked Puttock. "Have you any quarrel with him?" "There's no love lost between us. He organised my shearers when they struck two years ago." "What are you?" "Sheep, sir. The fellow came down and fought me, and well, sir, he said things about me that you'd hardly credit."
Puttock's health, and the conversation was carried on till gradually the Senator learned that Mr. Puttock received 800 pounds a year and a house for doing nothing, and that he paid his deputy 100 pounds a year with the use of a pony. "And how long will that be allowed to go on, Mr. Morton?" asked the Senator.
I was forced to have my meals in my bedroom, and to get myself taken away as soon as I could get a carriage and horses. After all that I ought not to be asked to meet the child." "I was thinking of asking old Mr. Cooper on Monday. I know she doesn't go out. And perhaps Mr. Mainwaring wouldn't take it amiss. Mr. Puttock, I know, isn't at home; but if he were, he couldn't come." Mr.
The thing was tangible enough now, and demanded to be dealt with more urgently than it ever had before. "It's a pity Eleanor didn't speak sooner," he said. "She thought less of it because Mrs. Puttock is a vulgar old gossip." "Yes; but I'm afraid there may be something in it. Why did Eleanor tell you now?" "Because I was speaking to her about the way Mr.
"Unhappily, however," said Mr. Puttock, spreading out his plump hands in pathetic fashion, "as you might conjecture, Mr. " he glanced at the visitor's card "Benham, my influence at the present juncture is less than nil. I am powerless.
"He's supposed to be lying low. And then I was down at the club and met old Oakapple there, and he told me that Kilshaw had boasted of having done a deal with Puttock." "What did he mean?" Anyhow the Chief Justice thought Perry would be back soon." "What? That Mr. Medland would be turned out? What a shame! He hasn't had a fair chance, has he?"
To all these inquiries Morton found himself compelled not only to answer, but to answer the truth. Any prevarication or attempt at mystification fell to the ground at once under the Senator's tremendous powers of inquiry. It had been going on for four years, and would probably go on now till Mr. Puttock died.
Sir Robert Perry sat and smiled; Puttock played with the hair chain that wandered across his broad waistcoat; Coxon restlessly bit his nails; Norburn's face was pale with excitement, and he twisted his hands in his lap; the determined partisans cheered or groaned; the waverers looked important and felt unhappy; all eyes were steadily fixed on the Premier, and all ears intent on his words.
Puttock had accepted the office of Minister of Trade and Customs, but not without grumbling, for he had aspired to control the finances of the colony as Treasurer, and considered that Medland underrated his influence as a political leader. He was a short man, rather stout, with large whiskers; he wore a blue ribbon in the button-hole of his dress-coat.
Really, he knew no more than that waiter and so forth; very likely his ignorance was real, but he diffused an atmosphere of suppressed knowledge which whetted the curiosity of his audience to the sharpest edge. A messenger entered and delivered a note to Puttock and another to Coxon. The two compared their notes for a moment, and went out together.
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