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Updated: May 28, 2025
"Oh, you did, did you, now he's gone? 'sconded off to America, I dare say, by this time. Now look ye, young man; your friends are after you, I won't say anything agin you; but you go back to them I wash my hands of you. Quite too much for me. There's your week, and never let me catch you in my yard agin, that's all!" Philip dropped the money which Stubmore had put into his hand.
He returned home, panting and purple with indignation and wounded feeling. "To think that chap, whom I took into my yard like a son, should have connived at this! 'Tain't the money'tis the willany that 'flicts me!" muttered Mr. Stubmore, as he re-entered the mews. Here he came plump upon Philip, who said "Sir, I wished to see you, to say that you had better take care of Captain Smith."
He took out his little fortune and spread it on the table, counting it over and over; it had remained pretty stationary since his service with Mr. Stubmore, for Sidney had swallowed up the wages of his hire. While thus employed, the door opened, and the chambermaid, showing in a gentleman, said, "We have no other room, sir."
"My friends! friends have been with you, have they? I thought so I thank them. And so you part with me? Well, you have been very kind, very kind; let us part kindly;" and he held out his hand. Mr. Stubmore was softened he touched the hand held out to him, and looked doubtful a moment; but Captain de Burgh Smith's cheque for eighty guineas suddenly rose before his eyes. "Captain Smith!
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