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Now Stormont imagined he had told him all he knew, and it ought to be worth fifty dollars. Lighting a cigar, he waited until his clerk came back, when he indicated Drummond, who lay, snoring heavily, with his dirty boots on Stormont's bed. "Wake the drunken fool and see him home." Watson had some trouble to get Drummond on his feet and after Stormont shut the door there was a heavy thud.
Drummond left them and Thirlwell said, thoughtfully, "It's plain that he deceived Stormont by telling him the creek flowed south. This would make the fellow think the ore was on our side of the last height of land, but if the water goes east, it must run into the James Bay basin on the other slope. That's something of a clue, but I see a risk in keeping Drummond here.
In silence also, and with an expression of arrested attention, Lord Plowden read these lines: "The undertaking referred to in the two documents of even date, signed respectively by Lord Plowden and Stormont Thorpe, is to the effect that at some hour between eleven A.M. and three P.M. of September 12th, instant, Lord Plowden shall produce before a special meeting of the Committee of the Stock Exchange, the person of one Jerome P. Tavender, to explain to said Committee his share in the blackmailing scheme of which Lord Plowden, over his own signature, has furnished documentary evidence."
On the evening before they left the mine, he joined the group outside the shack. "Well," said Scott, rather dryly, "what do you want?" "Miss Strange pulls out for the North to-morrow, and if she'll take me I'm going along." "Wait a moment," Scott said to Agatha, and then asked Drummond: "Why do you want to go?" "I mean to get even with Stormont; and I want to put Miss Strange as wise as I can."
Located at Owen Sound, and told me about Strange's specimens one day when he was very sick. Said he'd reckoned the fellow was a crank, but he'd kept two or three specimens and a mining man told him they carried good silver." "Did Strange tell your father where he found the specimens?" Stormont asked carelessly. Drummond grinned. "Since the old man sent him, I guess he knew where he went.
"What can I do for you?" he asked by and by. "I've left the store," said Drummond. "Thought I'd locate in Winnipeg. One has better chances in the big cities, and I reckoned you could find me a job. Anyhow, I'll need some money." "That's a sure thing. But why did you come to me for it?" "You gave me fifty dollars " "When did I give you fifty dollars?" Stormont interrupted with a look of surprise.
And we shall have to begin the old false life over again, she and I disliking and distrusting each other in our hearts the daily round of civilities and ceremonies and pretences. O Mary, you cannot think how I hate it. We had seen nothing of Julian Stormont during all the time of our happy solitude; but on the day appointed for Mr. and Mrs.
They want to talk about a new investment." Stormont, Wilmot and Stormont were her lawyers, and Cartwright nodded. "The money ought to be earning interest and you can safely buy stock Stormont's approve. Their judgment's sound." "For all that, I think I'd like to choose for myself. Suppose I bought some shares in the line?
He could now follow back the latter's trail and then make for the Record Office after altering the stakes. If he did so, the probability was that he would arrive too late, but accidents often happen in the bush and Thirlwell meant to leave nothing to luck. Moreover, Stormont had given him a hint when he tried to bribe Drummond to damage the canoes.
A hint of anger in his ironical amusement implied that he had come back disappointed; and if he imagined he had got on the right track, he would, no doubt, have been willing to pay another fifty dollars. For all that, Watson and Stormont had plotted to win his confidence, make him drunk, and find out all he knew, and this indicated that the fellow thought the vein worth looking for.
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