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The coast was conveniently clear for Mr Ratman, as, fired with a zeal for information, he slipped the letter from the envelope and, with half an eye on the door, hastily read it. As he did so, he flushed a little, and having read the letter once, read it again. Then he quickly replaced it in its cover, and laying it where he had discovered it, beat a rapid retreat.
"I was not all I might have been," replied Mr Ratman, beginning to wish this cross-examination was over. "Put it that way, certainly. You ran away, and left your mother, my sister, with a broken heart, I've heard say." "My father and I quarrelled, and I left home yes." Here the tutor quitted the fire and came to where the two men sat.
I came over this side to learn." "You've come to a queer hole to do it," said Ratman, beginning to feel he might as well resign himself to circumstances. "Just so. It's changed a bit since I was here last. We had to drive from Barbeck then." "So you know the place, do you?" inquired Ratman. "That's so," was the laconic rejoinder. "A resident, likely?"
Not so bad, is it? Rosalind thinks she's no end of an artist, but I " "When did he die?" inquired Mr Ratman, still examining the picture. "Oh, ever so long ago before the old Squire married Auntie. I say, come and have a punt about with my new football, will you?" "Go and get it. I'll be down presently. I like pictures, and shall just take a look at these first!"
"You and I had better understand one another at once," said Mr Ratman. "Why not? I flatter myself I understand you perfectly already." "Do you? Now, look here, my fine fellow. It's easy for you to give yourself airs, but I know a good deal more about you than I dare say you would care to own yourself. If you'll take my advice, the sooner you clear out of here the better.
Ratman dropped his jaw in utter amazement. For a minute the words would not come. Then, with a face so livid that Oliphant could see its whiteness through the night, he hissed "You mean it? You defy me? me, with these papers in my hand, and the whole story of your villainy in my keeping? You " As he held up the bills a wild impulse prompted the wretched captain to make a grab at them.
You needn't think you're out of that wood. Now, I shall want £200 for my month in town. I mean to enjoy myself." The captain laughed dismally. "Where are you going to get it from?" "You. Look sharp!" "I tell you, Ratman, I haven't any money. You can't get blood out of a stone." "Then you must give me a bill at a month." "No, no!
"Get up," said he, advancing to his prostrate antagonist. Ratman was surprised at himself when, after a moment's doubt, he obeyed. "What's your name?" demanded Mr Armstrong, surveying him from head to foot. Again, by some curious mental process, Mr Ratman obeyed. "What are you doing down here?" "I am Captain Oliphant's guest," growled Ratman.
"Go, Jill!" said he, so decisively that the little maid, darting only one look behind her, fled towards the house. All she saw was the two men facing one another one flurried, vicious, and noisy; the other curious, silent, disgusted. "You dog!" hissed Ratman, with an oath, "what do you mean by that?" "My meaning should have been clear it was intended to be."
The billiard-marker of "L'Hotel Soult" had vanished as completely as well, as Mr Ratman. "You know, of course," said the tutor once, with the rather unsympathetic drawl in which he was wont to allude to the lost Ingleton "you know, of course, that if the man you want is Ratman, you are having the assistance of the police in your search.
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