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We were through with your cheating and your thieving. We warned you, Shelton, and now you're back, back, by your own confession, on another rogue's errand." "Not on another's," my father objected mildly. "One of my own, Mr. Penfield. The experience you have outlined so lucidly convinced me that it was better to stick closely to my own affairs." "Mr. Shelton," Mr.
"I was a fool to go third," thought Shelton, taking in his neighbours from behind his journal. They were seven. A grizzled rustic sat in the far corner; his empty pipe, bowl downwards, jutted like a handle from his face, all bleared with the smear of nothingness that grows on those who pass their lives in the current of hard facts.
Shelton wondered what these ideals had been, but had no answer ready; so he nodded, and again held out his cigarettes, for, like a true Southerner, the little man had thrown the first away, half smoked. "The greatest pleasure in life," continued the Frenchman, with a bow, "is to talk a little to a being who is capable of understanding you.
A hundred paces into the town, Dick Shelton touched the duke's arm; the duke, in answer, gathered his reins, put the shrill trumpet to his mouth, and blowing a concerted point, turned to the right hand out of the direct advance. Swerving like a single rider, his whole command turned after him, and, still at the full gallop of the chargers, swept up the narrow bye-street.
Lord Barminster held out his hand without a word, and his son, as silently, grasped it; then, with a sigh, he seated himself at the table, prepared to learn to what extent he had been robbed by the man he trusted so fully. Without comment, Shelton passed him paper after paper, all drawn up in the clear writing of Mr. Harker; Adrien, with deep humiliation, examining them all.
Tomorrow I shall get a room for three shillin's a week, don't you think so, sir? Well, then I shall be all right. I 'm not afraid now; the mind at rest. So long as I ran keep myself, that's all I want. I shall do first-rate, I think"; and he stared at Shelton, but the look in his eyes and the half-scared optimism of his voice convinced the latter that he lived in dread.
"You had better be careful, constable," he said; but in the act of uttering these words he thought how pitiable they sounded. "We 're not to be trifled with," returned the policeman in a threatening voice. Shelton could think of nothing but to repeat: "You had better be careful, constable." "You're a gentleman," replied the policeman. "I'm only a policeman.
My housekeeper has two days' holiday; she's foolishly taken the keys." Shelton accepted gladly, feeling that the intonation in the parson's voice was necessary unto his calling, and that he did not want to patronise. "You 're hungry, I expect, after your tramp. I'm very much afraid there 's er nothing in the house but bread; I could boil you water; hot lemonade is better than nothing."
His good-humoured laugh as he seated himself drew echoes from his friends; Leroy's popularity was never more apparent than in a gathering of this sort, composed exclusively of his own sex. "So, have just come up from Barminster," said Shelton presently, "How is the Castle looking?"
"But I wrote to you," he said; "did n't you get my letter?" A flicker passed across the vagrant's face; he drew the letter from his pocket and held it out. "Here it is, monsieur." Shelton stared at it. "Surely," said he, "I sent a cheque?" Ferrand did not smile; there was a look about him as though Shelton by forgetting to enclose that cheque had done him a real injury.
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