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That with some idea of its proving useful to him on this gala occasion, he had provided himself with an imitation stone, setting and all, he who has never shown, so far as we have heard, any interest in Mrs. Fairbrother's diamond, only in Mrs. Fairbrother herself. If Wellgood is Sears and Sears the medium by which the false stone was exchanged for the real, then he made this exchange in Mr.
If it sells as he says it will then he will soon be rich: and so on, till Sweetwater brought the garrulous Dick to a standstill by asking whether Wellgood had been away for any purpose since he first came to town. He received the reply that he had just come home from New York, where he had been for some articles needed in his manufactory.
He looked up eagerly, however, when Sweetwater entered, and asked what news. The detective, with some semblance of respect, answered that he had seen Wellgood, but that he had been unable to detain him or bring him within his employer's observation.
The man behind the boxes was used to the name and reached out a hand toward a box unusually well stacked, but stopped half-way there and gave Sweetwater a sharp look. "Who are you?" he asked. "A stranger," that young man put in volubly, "looking for James Wellgood. I thought, perhaps, you could tell me where to find him. I see that his letters pass through this office."
Grey and discover, if possible, whether it would prove as much a matter of surprise to him as to Sweetwater himself that the man who answered to the name of Wellgood was the owner of a manufactory and a barrel or two of drugs, out of which he proposed to make a compound that would rob the doctors of their business and make himself and this little village rich.
"He is a patent-medicine man," he then explained, "and manufactures his own concoctions in a house he has rented here on a lonely road some half-mile out of town." "Wellgood does? the man named Wellgood?" Mr. Grey exclaimed with all the astonishment the other secretly expected. "Yes; Wellgood, James Wellgood. There is no other in town."
Certain letters which went into the sick tent were sent away again, and always to one address. He had learned the address. It was that of James Wellgood, C , Maine. If Mr. Grey would look up this Wellgood he would doubtless learn something of the man he was so interested in. This gave Mr.
Wellgood would probably be in for his mail in a few moments. "That is his buggy standing before the drug-store on the opposite side of the way." So! he had netted Jones' quondam waiter at the first cast! "Lucky!" was what he said to himself, "still lucky!" Sauntering to the door, he watched for the owner of that buggy.
For presently the two men, so different in culture, station and appearance, came, as it seemed, to an understanding, and Wellgood, taking his hand from his breast, fumbled in one of his pockets and drew out something which he handed to Mr. Grey.
Two men had that very morning been laid up with sickness, and when this able-looking, self-confident Wellgood presented himself for immediate employment, he took him out of hand with the merest glance at what looked like a very satisfactory reference. Later, he had intended to look up this reference, which he had been careful to preserve by sticking it, along with other papers, on his spike-file.
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