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Nora might some time be induced to speak more freely, and it was possible she might get the desired information from Old Hucks. She would try, anyway. A dozen theories might be constructed to account for this "great trouble." The one that Louise finally favored was that Captain Wegg had been guilty of some crime on the high seas in which his boatswain, Old Hucks, was likewise implicated.
Hear me out! cried Wegg. 'I knew you was a-going to say so. But alone I bore the anxiety, and alone I'll bear the blame! This with an air of great magnanimity. 'No, said Venus. 'Let's see this will and this box. 'Do I understand, brother, returned Wegg with considerable reluctance, 'that it is your wish to see this will and this ? Mr Venus smote the table with his hand.
'You are a fool, said Wegg, with a snap of his fingers, 'and I'd have got rid of you before now, if I could have struck out any way of doing it. I have thought it over, I can tell you. You may go, and welcome. You leave the more for me. Because, you know, said Wegg, dividing his next observation between Mr Boffin and Mr Harmon, 'I am worth my price, and I mean to have it.
Her plan was to win his confidence. Interest him in Joe's welfare, and then the truth must come out. The frankly related story of Ethel had supplied Louise with the motive for the crime, for that a crime had been committed she was now doubly sure. Captain Wegg had money; old Will Thompson had money; both were well-to-do men.
Wegg was a knotty man, and a close-grained, with a face carved out of very hard material, that had just as much play of expression as a watchman's rattle. When he laughed, certain jerks occurred in it, and the rattle sprung.
'Dear me! cried that unfortunate gentleman again, 'I am worrited to that degree that I'm almost off my head. You hurry me so. Be so good as name the terms, Wegg. 'Now, mark, Boffin, returned Silas: 'Mark 'em well, because they're the lowest terms and the only terms.
Captain Wegg had died three years before, and his son Joe wandered south to Albany, worked his way through a technical school and then disappeared in the mazes of New York. So the homestead seemed abandoned altogether, except for the Huckses.
'Quite true, added Mr Boffin; 'and I tested Venus by making him a pretended proposal or two; and I found him on the whole a very honest man, Wegg. 'So Mr Boffin, in his indulgence, is pleased to say, Venus remarked: 'though in the beginning of this dirt, my hands were not, for a few hours, quite as clean as I could wish. But I hope I made early and full amends.
'Partner, said Wegg, even more insinuatingly than before, 'I propose that we cut it in half, and each keep a half. Venus shook his shock of hair, as he replied, 'It wouldn't do to mutilate it, partner. It might seem to be cancelled.
'No, said Mr Boffin, 'no, Wegg. With that, producing a little book from his breast-pocket, he handed it with great care to the literary gentlemen, and inquired, 'What do you call that, Wegg? 'This, sir, replied Silas, adjusting his spectacles, and referring to the title-page, 'is Merryweather's Lives and Anecdotes of Misers.
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