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Updated: July 28, 2025
Stimcoe in deshabille, on the first-floor landing, under the derisive surveillance of Masters Doggy Bates, Bob Pilkington, and Scotty Maclean, whose graceless mirth echoed down to me from the stair-rail immediately overhead.
Stimcoe, having retired to cash a note for her, had brought back a strong smell of brandy and eighteen-pence less than the strict amount of her change. I knew in my heart that my new schoolmaster and his wife were a pair of frauds, and yet I choked down the impulse to speak. Perhaps Master Bates's loyalty kept me on my mettle. The dear soul and I bade one another farewell, she not without tears.
Stimcoe in his bedroom at least, I hope so, for he suffers from a hallucination that some person or persons unknown have incarcerated him in a French war-prison, such being the effect of to-day's er proceedings upon his highly strung nature. The illusion being granted, one can hardly be surprised at his resenting it." I nodded, and promised to do my best.
Stimcoe to be kind enough to advance the fare if your pocket-money will not suffice." "And I doubt if there's two shillings in the house!" commented Mrs. Stimcoe, candid for once, "and God knows what I can pawn!" Captain Branscome plunged his hand into his pocket and drew out a guinea.
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