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Jasper Trenoweth, when you would have given your soul to lay hands upon this piece of gold and read what is written upon it. It is a pity your hands are tied a thousand pities. But I do not wish to be hard on you, and so I don't mind reading out what is written here. The secret will be safe with you, don't you see? Quite safe with you."
Trenoweth, and I want you." There was a low cursing, a long pause broken by a muttered dispute upstairs, and then the street door opened and Bagnell appeared with a lantern. "Bagnell, I want my boat." "To-night, sir? And at this hour?" "Yes, to-night. I want it particularly." "But it is put away behind a dozen others, and can't be got." "Never mind.
But it was no dream, and when he turned to speak again I could see lurking beneath the assumed expression of the man all the evil passions and foul wickedness engraved upon the stone. "'Well, he remarked, 'stranger things than this have happened, but not much. You seem distressed, Trenoweth. Surely I, if any one, have the right to be annoyed. But you let your antiquarian zeal carry you too far.
The gulls hovered around us with melancholy cries, as they wheeled in graceful circles and swooped down to their prey in the depths at our feet. Presently he spoke again in a meditative, far-away voice "Ezekiel Trenoweth, fair, broad, and six foot two in his socks; why should anything have happened to him?" "But you seem to know him, and know the ship he sailed in.
Do I not look a witch?" Indeed she did, as she sat there. The diamonds flashed and gleamed, lighting up the awful colour of her skin until she seemed a very "Death-in-Life." "I see that I puzzle you; but your looks, Mr. Trenoweth, are hardly complimentary. However, you are forgiven.
Unable to comprehend why my name should have this effect on him, but hopeless of understanding this extraordinary man's behaviour, I repeated the two words. His face had turned to an ashy white, but he slowly took his eyes off me and turned them upon the sea, almost as though afraid to meet mine. There was a pause. "Father by any chance answering to the name of Ezekiel Ezekiel Trenoweth?"
A spare, dry, shrivelled man, with a mouth full of determination and acuteness, and a habit of measuring his words as though they were for sale, he is in everything but height the essence of every Scotchman I remember to have seen. "'Good day, said he, 'Mr. I fancy I did not catch your name. "'Trenoweth, said I. "'Indeed!
It's a serious matter, mark ye, for a respectable clerk like myself to be aiding and abetting in this mad chase; and, to tell the truth, Trenoweth, I took a fancy to ye when first I set eyes on your face, and Don't say another word, I'll ask ye. "My friend's eyes were full of tears. I arose, shook him silently by the hand, and went to my room. "Nov. 26th. I am off.
Put the clasp where I would the needle stopped in front of it. When eight times I had put the buckle down and eight times had found a fresh heap of coin at my side, she turned to me and said "You play bravely, young man. What is your name?" "Jasper Trenoweth." Again I fancied I caught the gleam in her eyes; and this time it even seemed as though her teeth shut tight as she heard the words.
Amos Trenoweth is the veritable Great Ruby of which the traveller Marco Polo speaks. But, however this may be, I know from the testimony of my own eyes that the stone is of inestimable worth, being of the rarest colour, and in size greatly beyond any Ruby that ever I saw. The stone is spoken of, in addition to such writers as Mr.
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