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He recognized the friends the instant they reappeared, but their reappearance had no effect on his composure. Not even the circumstance that Riderhood was their conductor moved him, otherwise than that as he took a dip of ink he seemed, by a settlement of his chin in his stock, to propound to that personage, without looking at him, the question, 'What have YOU been up to, last?
'For I shouldn't, he said in a feeling manner, 'have liked to lose you till I had made more money out of you neither. And now gradually came the wonder that he stood up, completely clothed, another man, and not the Bargeman. 'Aha! said Riderhood. 'Much as you was dressed that night. I see. You're a taking me with you, now. You're deep. But I knows a deeper.
With a desperation in him that made him perfectly quiet, though his jaw was heavily squared; with his eyes upon Riderhood; and with traces of quickened breathing in his nostrils; the schoolmaster replied, in a suppressed voice, after a pause: 'I think I know the man you mean. 'I thought you knowed the man I mean, learned governor. I want the man.
The convulsive twitching of Bradley Headstone's face, and the sudden hot humour that broke out upon it, showed how grimly the intelligence touched him. But he said not a single word, good or bad. He only smiled in a lowering manner, and got up and stood leaning at the window, looking through it. Riderhood followed him with his eyes. Riderhood cast down his eyes on his own besprinkled clothes.
'Don't you know that, if you didn't do the deed, what you say you could tell is worth from five to ten thousand pound? asked Riderhood. 'I know it very well, and when I claim the money you shall share it. The honest man paused, and drew a little nearer to the visitor, and a little further from the door.
My honourable and gallant friend will, I trust, excuse me, as an independent member, for throwing out a remark which I feel to be due to this house and the country. 'Was that the T'other Governor, or Lawyer Lightwood? asked Riderhood. For, they spoke as they crouched or lay, without seeing one another's faces. 'You've tolerable good eyes, ain't you, Governor?
Miss Abbey having looked in to make sure that nothing is wanted, descends to the bar, and there awaits the result, with the gentle Jew and Miss Jenny Wren. If you are not gone for good, Mr Riderhood, it would be something to know where you are hiding at present. This flabby lump of mortality that we work so hard at with such patient perseverance, yields no sign of you.
'What turn, said Bradley, with an effort at self-repression that forced him to wipe his face, 'did his insolence take to-day? 'It took the turn, answered Riderhood, with sullen ferocity, 'of hoping as I was getting ready to be hanged. 'Let him look to that, cried Bradley. 'Let him look to that!
Over the young ladies, I see a Missis. That Missis is sweet enough upon you, Master, to sell herself up, slap, to get you out of trouble. Make her do it then. Bradley stared at him so very suddenly that Riderhood, not quite knowing how to take it, affected to be occupied with the encircling smoke from his pipe; fanning it away with his hand, and blowing it off.
'It's a certain fact, said Mr Inspector, 'that this man we have received our information from, indicating Riderhood with his thumb over his shoulder, 'has for some time past given the other man a bad name arising out of your lime barges, and that the other man has been avoided in consequence. I don't say what it means or proves, but it's a certain fact.