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They get a living is it worth while?" "But, sir," gasped the old man, "they must live, and " "Why must they?" "Because they want to! Wait till you see 'em sick, sir. My word! They do make haste for the Doctor." "I fancy they do, Wickes. But all the same, I don't wonder that they grouch a bit."
Wickes will show you the ropes, and you will make good, I know. And I just want to say that you don't know how glad I am to have you come in with me, Jack. If your brother had come back he would have taken hold, he was cut out for the job, but " "Poor old Andy! He had your genius for the business. I wish he had been the one to get back!"
"But how can they know? What check have they?" "Well, they are always about, Mr. Jack, and keep their eyes on things generally." "I see," said Jack. "And do you find that works quite satisfactorily?" "Well, sir, we have never gone into details, you know, Mr. Jack, but if you wish " "Oh, no, Wickes, I am just trying to get the hang of things, you know."
So Johnny Wickes vent cautiously down the few slippery stone steps, half tumbled into the bottom of the great open boat, and then scrambled up to the bow. "Where will you be for going, sir?" said one of the men when Macleod had jumped into the stern and taken the tiller. "Anywhere right out!" he answered, carelessly.
"By Jove, you've grown up, haven't you? And it was you that " "Yes, that big brute was abusing Steve here." "What? Little Steve Wickes?" "He was, and I pitched him into the fence. He hit his head and cut it, I guess. I didn't mean " "Served him right enough, too, I fancy," said Captain Jack. "I'll 'ave the law on the lot o' ye, I will.
And the woman was so amused at the notion of little Johnny Wickes being able to earn anything at all, that, when she received the money and looked at it, she burst out crying; and she had so little of the spirit of the British matron, and so little regard for the laws of her country, that she invoked Heaven knows what Heaven does know what blessings on the head of the very man who had carried her child into slavery.
He appeared in the outer office, still in his evening garb. "Mr. Wickes," he said in solemn gravity, "please have your stenographer take this letter." Mr. Wickes, aghast, strove to hush his vibrant tones, indicating in excited pantomime the presence of the chief in the inner office. He might as effectively have striven to stay the East wind at that time sweeping up the valley.
The chief victim of this deluge was the luckless Johnny Wickes, who tumbled down into the bottom of the boat, vehemently blowing the salt-water out of his mouth, and rubbing his knuckles into his eyes. Macleod burst out laughing. "What's the good of you as a lookout?" he cried. "Didn't you see the water coming?" "Yes, sir," said Johnny, ruefully laughing, too. But he would not be beaten.
His anger which had found vent upon his old bookkeeper he knew was due another man, a man with whom at any cost he could never allow himself to be angry. The next two hours were bad hours for Grant Maitland. As the quitting whistle blew a tap came again to the office door. It was Wickes, with a paper in his hand. Without a word he laid the paper upon his chief's desk and turned away.
I hadn't the eddication for much, as you might say but well, there's my little home, and we've lived happy there, the missus and me, and the kids at least, till the war came." The old man paused abruptly. "You're right, Wickes, by Jove," exclaimed Jack, starting from his seat and gripping the old man's hand.
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