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His brain was in a whirlwind of wrath, of suspicion, of anger, of sick jealousy. This was the real danger not all the nonsense that Bubbles talked about her power of raising ghosts, and of being haunted by unquiet spirits. The real danger the girl was in now was that of being persuaded into marrying that loathsome Tapster for his money.
Tapster was very glad that a stout pane of glass stood between himself and the sinister-looking men and women who seemed to be staring up at him, or rather at his windows, with faces full of cruel, wolfish curiosity. He let the blind fall to gently. But before he had even time to rearrange the curtains in their right folds, there came a sudden loud, persistent knocking at his front door. Mr.
"Ye cannot miss the place, sir," called the tapster after him. "'Tis just beyond Ned Alleyn's, by the ditch. Ye'll never mistake the ditch, sir Billingsgate is roses to it." "Oh, I'll find it fast enough," the stranger answered; "but he should have sent to meet me, knowing I might come at any hour. 'Tis a felon place for thieves; and I've not heart to skewer even a goose on such a night as this."
Was all that money to be wasted? Mr. Tapster suddenly saw the whole of his little world rising up in judgment, smiling pityingly at his folly and weakness. During the whole of a long and of what had been, till this last year, a very prosperous life, Mr.
Tapster felt rather shaken and nervous; he pulled out his repeater watch, but, alas! it was still very early only ten minutes to nine. He couldn't go to bed yet. Perhaps he would do well to join a club. He had always thought rather poorly of men who belonged to clubs most of them were idle, lazy fellows; but still, circumstances alter cases.
Miss Bubbles, so much was clear, rather despised the poor lad. She had implied as much in her clever, teasing, funny way, more than once. And the thought of Bubbles unexpectedly brought up another image that of James Tapster. Of the little party gathered together at Wyndfell Hall, Tapster was the one whom the doctor felt he really didn't like.
Le Neve states, in his MSS. preserved in the Heralds' College, that he became a tapster in the King's Bench Prison, and was tried and imprisoned for cheating in 1711. He was alive in 1727, when Wootton's account of the Baronets was published. In that work he is said to be reduced to a low condition.
"Hang him, foul scroyle, let him pass," said the mercer; "if he be such a one, there were small worship to be won upon him. And now tell me, Mike my honest Mike, how wears the Hollands you won of me?" "Why, well, as you may see, Master Goldthred," answered Mike; "I will bestow a pot on thee for the handsel. Fill the flagon, Master Tapster."
Maud had described the letter as shameless and unwomanly in the extreme, and even William, who had never judged his pretty young sister-in-law as severely as his wife had always done, had observed sadly that Flossy seemed quite unaware of the magnitude of her offense against God and man. Mr. Tapster, who prided himself on his sharp ears, suddenly heard a curious little sound.
Though, in a sense, she had certainly tried to attract him, she felt, all at once, miserably ashamed of her success. So much so, indeed, that she pretended at first not to understand what he meant. But at last she had to leave such pretence aside, and then it was she who surprised Mr. Tapster, for, "You must let me have time to think over the great honour you have done me," she said quietly.
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