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"Nay, father, but I know," said Harry, with a little blush at her own erudition: "the Buccas are the ghosts of the old Jews who crucified our Lord, and were sent as slaves by the Roman emperor to work the Cornish mines." "Very like," said Trevethick, approvingly, although probably without any clear conception of the historical picture thus presented to him.
Trevethick was aware of this, and indeed the chaplain had given him a hint to keep the proposed purchase-money within easy reach, in case the Squire's mood might alter, or his necessities demand his consent to what Mr. Whymper honestly believed to be a very advantageous offer. Otherwise, Trevethick was not one to keep a hoard in his house for the mere pleasure of gloating over it.
But the next instant he reflected that her arrival could not be possibly looked for for some days; perhaps it was Trevethick, who had, in the mean time, learned all, and was come to announce his willingness to withdraw from the prosecution; perhaps Harry herself was with him; perhaps
"But it was Trevethick it was father-in-law who urged me to do it; it was indeed." "I know it," replied the other, coldly; "he was a greater villain than yourself, but unhappily an older one. Death has robbed me of him, and made my vengeance incomplete. Still there is something left for me. While you die slowly here But no; I shall wait at Turlock for that to happen.
Only a plank intervened between that little knot of giddy pleasure-seekers, with their jokes and small-talk, and the father and daughter in their agony. "Mercy! mercy!" cried the wretched girl. Trevethick clapped his hand upon her little mouth, with, "Hush, fool! hush!" and she felt thankful that he called her by no worse name. "Forgive me pity pardon," murmured she.
I would not take such a thing on trust from an angel." "So I suspected," observed Balfour, coolly. "But as you have told me one lie you may tell me another. What am I to believe now?" "The mine is yours, Sir," answered Solomon, gruffly. "Let us go down together and look at it. If Trevethick and I were mistaken and I'll bet you a thousand pounds that we were not it is but coming back again, and "
It was therefore without the slightest suspicion of its having been tampered with, that, an hour or two after the conversation just narrated, Trevethick repaired to his strong-box, with the intention of taking from it the sum of money required by Solomon.
"No; but my wife's father, John Trevethick, as good a judge as any man on earth, or under it, saw it, and told me of its existence on his death-bed " "When did he die, and how? Was it a lingering, painful death, or was he struck down suddenly?" interposed Balfour.
"Because I had heard there was a Miners' Bank there, and Trevethick had mentioned the notes of that company as being as good, in his opinion, as those of the Bank of England. I thought it would be easier to get the Mining notes in exchange for those of the Bank of England, than others of the same bank." "The check which you showed this Trevethick was not, then, a bonâ fide piece of paper, eh?"
"Well, he certainly ought to do so," answered Richard, carelessly; "but, on the other hand, it is not very probable that I shall put him to the test." "Just so," returned Trevethick, sucking at his pipe; "you're independent of the likes of him." "Altogether," was Richard's reply. The old man spoke no more, but sat in a cloud of smoke and thought for the rest of the evening.
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