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Updated: June 10, 2025
Pleased to know you, sir. Pity you weren't with us last night to see the decline and fall of your ingenious friend, R. Ratman. Your colleague, sir, put that young man to bed in a way that would have made you enjoy yourself. Seems to me, captain, you are well rid of him." "I fail to understand all this," said the captain. "If you refer to Mr Ratman's claims to be the lost Roger Ingleton "
The appeal, insultingly as it was made, was one which Roger Ingleton, minor, could not resist. "I have had a letter from Ratman," said he when the two friends were alone together. "I am not surprised," said the tutor. "He wants money, of course?" "I can't show you the letter, simply because it contains a vague clue as to his whereabouts, which you would feel bound to follow up."
Bless you, any one can put his hand to paper. Consider yourself lucky I don't insist on taking it out in hard cash." It was no use arguing or protesting with a man like this. The captain flung himself miserably into a chair and scrawled out the ill-omened document. Ratman snatched it up with a grunt of triumph. "That's more like," said he. "What's the use of all that fuss?
Every one else is down on me auntie, father, Roger, Jill, Tom " "I'm not down on you," put in Tom. "I think it's rather larks your going to the Vicarage. No more of that beastly art class for us. But if you want to know who's down on you, it's jolly old Ratman. I've just been to see him off in the tantrums to London.
"Order two suits of black while you're about it. But, Teddy, my boy, doesn't it strike you you'd be more usefully employed down there than here? It seems unfeeling of a guardian to be enjoying himself in town while his ward is in extremis at home, doesn't it? Who is nursing him?" "My daughter, chiefly." Ratman laughed coarsely. "Ho, ho, clever Teddy!
Having done so, he put it in his pocket, and turned with a good show of coolness to his guest. "When do we run down to Maxfield?" inquired the latter. "Not for some time. There is illness in the house. You must wait." "Oh, I don't mind if you don't. Who is the invalid? Young Croesus?" "Yes dangerously ill. I expect every day to hear that it is all over." Ratman laughed.
Go for a policeman," said Armstrong in a tone so strange that the faithful Gustav slunk away like a dog with his tail between his legs. "Now, sir!" said the tutor as the door closed. The wretch made one wild effort at escape. He might have known by this time with whom he had to deal. Mr Armstrong held him by the wrist as in a vice. "It won't do, Ratman," said he. "The game is up.
As the meal went on Mr Ratman showed alarming symptoms of requiring no friendly lead to encourage his powers of conversation. Despite his host's deprecatory signals, he began to tell stories of an offensive character, and joke about matters not generally held to be amusing in a company of gentlemen. Captain Oliphant grew hot and nervous.
When, a few moments later, Gustav entered with two constables, Mr Ratman welcomed the visitors with a sigh almost of relief, and placed himself quietly in their hands. As he passed the chair where Roger sat, half faint with pain and loss of blood, he stopped a moment and said "Your brother! No. If I had been I shouldn't have come to this."
Three days after, Mr Ratman visited his friend Captain E. Oliphant here. Two days later he reached the hotel in London with a Yeld label on his trunk. A week after that he passed note Number 90,356 to settle his bill. There, sir; the Americans are born explorers. I flatter myself there's not much more to know about my two notes." "Quite so," said the tutor.
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