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Raikes threw open the cumbrous volume, and ran a practised eye and finger down some three or four successive columns of entries. Stopping suddenly at the foot of a page, he then read aloud that Benjamin Somers had on that day conducted the 4.15 express from London to Crampton.
"Still," ventured Raikes, astonished at this curious rejoinder, "you have some safe depository for such valuables." "Doubtless," replied the other drily; "but I have a few in my room now, and, by the way, they are pretty fair specimens." "Ah!" cried Raikes. "May I see them?" "Why not?" assented the Sepoy.
Whatever can be placed to his credit in the meantime will serve as an additional reason for his advancement. "I believe that he would be more persuaded to undertake the case with this prospect in view than for a mercenary reason." "But," interrupted Raikes, "can you get him?" "I think I can answer for that," replied Robert. "I know him very well.
Raikes, said the Countess, smiling on him fixedly, 'you are amusing; but in addressing me, you must be precise, and above all things accurate. I am not your Countess! He bowed profoundly. 'Oh, that I might say my Queen! The Countess replied: 'A conviction of your lunacy would prevent my taking offence, though I might wish you enclosed and guarded.
Harry made his way to join his friend Ferdinand, and furnished him with the latest London news not likely to appear in the papers. Laxley was distant and unamused. From the fact, too, that Harry was known to be the Countess's slave, his presence produced the same effect in the different circles about the grounds, as did that of John Raikes.
'If you don't let me have my own way, Van, I 'll shy my purse after it. What do you mean, sir, by treating me like a beggar? 'Our friend Harrington can't humour us, quoth Raikes. 'For myself, I candidly confess I prefer being paid for'; and he leaned contentedly against one of the posts of the inn till the filthy dispute was arranged to the satisfaction of the ignobler mind.
A very singular old gentleman, that! Raikes observed, following an idea that had been occupying him. 'We did wrong to miss him. We ought to have waylaid him in the morning. Never miss a chance, Harrington. 'What chance? Evan inquired. 'Those old gentlemen are very odd, Jack pursued, 'very strange. He wouldn't have judged me by my attire. Admetus' flocks I guard, yet am a God!
Raikes had not quite the air of one come out of a bandbox, he at least proved to the discerning intelligence that he knew what sort of manner befitted that happy occasion, and was enabled by the pains he had taken to glance with a challenge at the sign of the hostelry, under which they were now ranked, and from which, though the hour was late, and Fallowfield a singularly somnolent little town, there issued signs of life approaching to festivity.
Then he went to Melville, and one or two others, and the eyes of many became concentrated on Raikes, and it was observed as a singular sign that he was constantly facing about, and flushing the fiercest red.
Raikes and his nephew sprang to their feet, their eyes bulging in the direction of the bedroom. In the doorway stood the Sepoy. "You lie!" he repeated, "you miserable husk, you! You were here one evening in my absence, or, at least, what you supposed was my absence," and raising his manacled hands the speaker pointed to the closet. "I was there," he said. "Ah ah!" faltered Raikes chokingly.
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