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Wallop's threat to insist on immediate payment, or else "show me up" before the partners and my other creditors, may have been mere bounce; but it may equally well have been in earnest, in which case I was ruined. Jack's one solicitude that evening was to keep me from fretting too much. But it is all very well to say, "Don't fret," and another thing to remove the cause of fretting.
Hogben would have been rating the angel's head in Paradise. But there had been great call for men to man the walls there in Calais, so Wallop's ancient had written his name down on the list, beneath the gallows tree, and had taken him away from the Sheriff of Lincoln's man. 'So here a be, he drawled, 'cutting little holes in my pikehead. ''Tis a folly, the young Poins said.
"I say," I began, when that evening we were walking home, rather moodily, side by side "I say, you must have been astonished by what those fellows were saying to-day, Jack." "Eh? Well, I couldn't quite make it out." "They are always chaffing me about something," I said. "Then it was all a make-up of Wallop's about what you owed?" "Well, no not exactly.
It had sent old Hogben, the father, to die in a ditch; it had sent his daughters to the stews and his sons to the road for sturdy beggars. So that, but for Wallop's band passing that way when Hogben was grinning through the rope beneath Lincoln town tree but for the fact that men were needed for Wallop's work in Calais, by the holy blood of Hailes!
However, I felt more comfortable to have written the letter, and if I could only have been sure Wallop's threat was mere idle bluster I should have slept easily. As it was, I had had rather a stirring day for my first one out, and at the end of it felt a good deal less game for work than at the beginning.
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