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Chalk from going," she murmured. "Never mind about him," said Mr. Stobell. "Do you want to come. "Yes," said Mrs. Stobell. Her husband, hardly able to believe his ears, gazed at her in bewilderment. "Very well, then," he said, in a voice that made the tea-cups rattle. He sat with bent brows gazing at the table as Mrs.
Stobell, about to reply, caught the staring eye of the photograph, and, shaking her head sorrowfully, took out her handkerchief and wiped her eyes. Mrs. Chalk softened. "They both had their faults," she said, gently, "but they were great friends. I dare say that it was a comfort to them to be together to the last."
Tredgold acting as cross-examining counsel and Mr. Stobell enacting the part of a partial and overbearing judge, Mr. Chalk, after a display of fortitude which surprised himself almost as much as it irritated his friends, parted with his news and sat smiling with gratification at their growing excitement. "Half a million, and he won't go for it?" ejaculated Mr. Tredgold. "The man must be mad."
Chalk, admitted at once that it might do his wife good, but that it wouldn't him. "We're going to be three jolly bachelors," he declared, and, first nudging Mr. Chalk to attract his attention, deliberately winked at him. "Oh, indeed!" exclaimed Mrs. Chalk, drawing herself up; "but you forget that I am coming." "Two jolly bachelors, then," said the undaunted Stobell. "No," said Mrs.
Chalk as he raced up the rigging for a better view. Tredgold with the captain's glass, and Stobell with an old pair of field-glasses in which he had great faith, gazed from the deck. Tredgold was the first to speak. "Are you sure this is the one, Brisket?" he inquired, carelessly. "Certainly, sir," said the captain, in some surprise. "At least, it's the one you told me to steer for."
Chalk the expressive features of Miss Selina Vickers; facing her at the opposite side of the room Mr. Stobell, palpably ruffled, eyed her balefully. "This is a new client of mine," said Tredgold, indicating Miss Vickers. Mr. Chalk said "Good evening." "I tried to get a word with you last night," said Miss Vickers.
Stobell in particular being so dejected that his wife eyed him in amazement. "It'll spoil it for all of us if you don't come," he said, with bashful surliness. "Why, I arranged the lunch more for you than anybody. It'll be our last meal on shore." Mrs. Chalk said that she had had so many meals on shore that she could afford to miss one, and Mr.
Chalk had invented a new process of making large diamonds. Mr. Jasper Tredgold, on the other hand, arrived at the conclusion that a highly respectable burglar was offering for some reason to share his loot with him. A conversation between Messrs. Stobell and Tredgold in the High Street only made matters more complicated. "Chalk always was fond of making mysteries of things," complained Mr.
Chalk, as the three bent exultingly over the map. "I could ha' sworn to this map in a court of justice." "Don't you worry your head about it," advised Mr. Stobell. "You've got your way at last," said Tredgold, with some severity. "We're going for a cruise with you, and here you are raising objections." "Not objections," remonstrated the other; "and, talking about the voyage, what about Mrs. Chalk?
He hasn't got the money for such an expedition; you have. The yarn about passing his word was so that you shouldn't open your mouth too wide. You were to do the persuading, and then he could make his own terms. Do you see? Why, it's as plain as A B C." "Plain as the alphabet," said Mr. Stobell, almost chidingly. Mr. Chalk gasped and looked from one to the other.
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