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Verity spent a disgusting and disgusted forty-eight hours, to be eventually put ashore, a woefully bedraggled and depleted figure, in the primrose, carmine, and dove-grey of a tender April morning on the wet sand just below the sea-wall of Tandy's Castle. Never was Briton more thankful to salute his native land, or feel the solid earth of it under his weary and very shaky feet.
Marychurch Abbey, at the end of the eighteenth century, had very certainly nothing to offer him under that head. And then, with a swiftness of conception and decision possible only to mercurial-minded persons, his thought darted back to Tandy's, that unkempt, morally malodorous back-of-beyond and No Man's Land.
Neither harborage of contraband, cruel laughter of man, or yell of tortured beast, should again defile the under-world of Tandy's! Next he had the roof of the main building raised, and given a less mean and meagre angle.
Nevertheless to Thomas Clarkson Verity, man of peace and of ideas, Tandy's represented and continued to represent through over half a century rescue, security, an awakening in something little short of paradise from a long-drawn nightmare of hell.
He had not expected Hallam and Temple to succeed in accomplishing anything, and at this time his fate was at crisis in another and, to him, a dearer way. His interview with Barbara had been held, as we know, at the precise time when Hallam and Temple were in consultation with regard to the matter of Tandy's accusation.
It occurred to me that if we could get three or four more shares and emphasize our confidence in you by making you president of Tandy's own bank, and turning him out to grass, he might see the point and stop his lies. I flatter myself that Stafford and I are pretty well known all over the West and among bankers in the East.
"Well, it amounts to this," answered Duncan. "That scoundrel Tandy " "Stop!" said Barbara, in an authoritative tone. "Never mind Tandy's character. If you go off on that you'll never make me understand." In spite of his agitation, Duncan laughed. "How you do order me about!" "Oh, pardon me!" exclaimed the girl in manifest alarm. "I didn't mean to do that. I would never think of doing such a thing.
"Can you not telegraph to one of them and arrange to have them say in response to a dispatch of inquiry from Tandy's bank, that my credit with them is good for twelve thousand dollars, and that if I wish to make use of some money in Cairo, they will pay my drafts up to that amount?" "That's it. That will be the best plan in every way. You'll need identification, and I'll arrange that.
So when at last success was his, when he received from Tandy's hands the papers that secured his purpose, his first act was to telegraph to Mary the message: Glory to God in the highest! I have paid my debt to Guilford Duncan. It was fire minutes later when he entered the Hallam offices and laid the papers before the head of the house, saying only: "I've secured the stock."
You have seen my duty clearly, where I was in doubt about it, and you have prompted me to the resolute doing of it, regardless of my own feelings, or Tandy's, or of any other consideration whatever. Moreover, it is an immeasurable help to me simply to sit in your presence and feel that you want me to do right always. I think association with you would keep any man in the straight road.
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