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Updated: May 10, 2025
Yesterday afternoon Mr Markham, the famous Insurance King, accidentally fell overboard from fore deck, and was gallantly rescued by a young officer named Kendal" you bet that's a misprint for Rendal error in the wire, perhaps we'll get a later edition after tea "who leapt into the sea and swam to the sinking millionaire, supporting him until assistance arrived.
A middle-aged, Jewish-looking man, wrapped to the chin in a shabby ulster and carrying a suit-case, stood on the threshold, and regarded the little party. 'Mother! cried Mr Markham. 'Chrissy! He set down the suit-case and took two eager strides. Old Mrs. Rendal, the one immediately menaced, shrank back into Jim's arms as he started up with his throat working to bolt a mouthful of cake.
Between 1 May, when she stepped off the train, and 16 May, when she received Eddy Moore's letter containing the information that he had found her a post as stenographer in the office of Joe Rendal, it had changed Mary Hill quite remarkably. Mary was from Dunsterville, which is in Canada. Emigrations from Dunsterville were rare.
"Come in here, lovey, and Anne'll sing 'Lord Rendal." "I mean," said Lydia, from her knees, "could anybody kiss me, except Farvie, and not have it like Farvie I mean have it terrible and I kiss him back and Anne, what would it mean?" "That's a nightmare," said Anne. "Now you've got all cool and waked up, you run back to bed, unless you'll get in here." Lydia put a fevered little hand upon her.
After all, his mental disquiet was not readily to be dismissed; it even grew as he speculated and viewed likelihoods from all sides. Probably Kate had made a complete disclosure. How would it affect Adela? You must not suppose that his behaviour in the case of the man Rendal had argued disregard for Adela's opinion of him.
On his way thither Mr Markham protested cheerily that he saw no reason for all this fuss; he was as right now, or nearly as right, as the Bank. How's Rendal getting on? Captain Holditch, skipper of the Carnatic, put this question next morning to the doctor, and was somewhat surprised by the answer. 'Oh, Rendal's all right. That is to say, he will be all right. Just now he's suffering from shock.
Mr Rendal was disengaged. She rose and went into an inner room, where a big man was seated at a desk. It was Joe. There was no doubt about that. But it was not the Joe she remembered, he of the twisted ringers and silent stare. In his case, New York had conjured effectively. He was better-looking, better-dressed, improved in every respect.
Dick Rendal, alighting at Waterloo, collected his luggage or rather, Mr Markham's methodically; saw it hoisted on a four-wheeler; and, handing the cabby two shillings, told him to deliver it at an address in Park Lane, where the butler would pay him his exact fare.
The third officer by name Dick Rendal knew something of the inquisitiveness and idle ways of passengers. This was his fifth trip in the Carnatic. He took no truck in passengers beyond showing them the patient politeness enjoined by the Company's rules. He knew nothing of Mr Markham, who dispensed with the services of a valet and dressed with a shabbiness only pardonable in the extremely rich.
These upheavals had the effect on Mary of making her feel curiously linked to the firm. On ordinary days work was work, but on these occasions of storm and stress it was a fight, and she looked on every member of the little band grouped under the banner of J. Rendal as a brother-in-arms. For Joe, while the battle raged, she would have done anything.
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