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As he rose, panting, to resume flight, a figure bounded out of the darkness behind him, and he gathered it in silently and went with it to the ground, where both fought silently in the dust until they rolled into the moonlight and each looked the other in the face. "That you, Jim Skaggs?" "That you, Tom Boggs?"
Skaggs, of the New York Universe, was one of the former class and a constant visitor, he and a "lady friend" called "Maudie," who had a penchant for dancing to "Rag-time" melodies as only the "puffessor" of such a club can play them. Of course, the place was a social cesspool, generating a poisonous miasma and reeking with the stench of decayed and rotten moralities.
Skaggs were honest with them and they have been just as honest in return." "Sounds very attractive," muttered Deppingham sceptically. "I should think they'd be terribly tempted," said Lady Agnes. "They look so wretchedly poor." "They are a bit out at the knees," said her husband, with a great laugh.
It was now only too apparent that Skaggs and Wyckholme had wrought well in anticipation of a rebellion by the native shareholders. Each window had its adjustable grates, every outer door was protected by heavy iron gates. By nightfall Deppingham's forces were in full possession of every advantage that their position afforded.
Boggs trying to get his knife and Skaggs his pistol, and all went down in a heap. "I surrender I surrender!" It was the giant who spoke, and at the sound of his voice both men ceased to struggle, and, strange to say, no one of the three laughed. "Lieutenant Boggs," said Captain Wells, thickly, "take yo' thumb out o' my mouth. Lieutenant Skaggs, leggo my leg an' stop bitin' me."
When he left Rapp-Thorberg in disgrace some months before, his susceptibilities were in a most thoroughly chastened condition; a cat might look at a king, but he had forsworn peeping into the secret affairs of princesses. His strange connection with the Skaggs will case is easily explained.
How 's Kit an' Joe?" "They 're all right," was the reply. Skaggs could n't tell him, in this the first hour of his freedom. Let him have time to drink the sweetness of that all in. There would be time afterwards to taste all of the bitterness. Once in New York, he found that people wished to see him, some fools, some philanthropists, and a great many reporters.
They now had nothing in common with Taswell Skaggs; Skaggs is not a pretty name. Mr. Britt afterward spent three weeks of incessant travel on the continent and an additional seven days at sea. In Baden-Baden he happened upon Lord and Lady Deppingham. It will be recalled that in Japat they had always professed an unholy aversion for Mr. Britt.
Water mains ran through miles of the tropical forest and, no matter how great the drouth, the natives kept the verdure green and fresh with a constancy that no real wage-earner could have exercised. As to the stables, they might have aroused envy in the soul of any sporting monarch. It was a palace, but they had called it a château, because Skaggs stubbornly professed to be democratic.
For thirty years they lived on the island of Japat. Wyckholme preceded Skaggs to the grave by two winters and he willed his share of everything to his partner of thirty years' standing. But there was a proviso in Wyckholme's bequest, just as there was in that of Skaggs. Each had made his will some fifteen years or more before death and each had bequeathed his fortune to the survivor.
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