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Updated: June 13, 2025
On this occasion it was the Globe newspaper which Septimus, who had spent the day in London on an unexecuted errand to his publisher, had brought back with him. Evening papers being luxuries in Nunsmere, he had hidden it carefully from Wiggleswick, in order to present it to the ladies.
"You've got to do what you're told," said Zora, conclusively. She noticed a shade of anxiety cross his face. "Is there anything else?" "Wiggleswick. I don't know what's to become of him." "He can come to Nunsmere and lodge with the local policeman," said Zora. On the evening before they started from Paris she received a letter addressed in a curiously feminine hand.
No. I buried 'em all honorable." "That," said Septimus, "was very kind of you." "It was out of gratitude." "For their goodness?" "No. For being delivered from 'em. I had a lot of experience before I could learn the blessedness of a single life." Septimus sighed. "Yet it must be very nice to have a wife, Wiggleswick." "But ain't yer got one?" bawled the disreputable body-servant.
"Wiggleswick is good for me," said he. "He keeps me human. I am apt to become a machine. I live so much among them. I've been working hard on a new gun or rather an old gun. It's field artillery, quick-firing. I got on to the idea again from a sighting apparatus I invented. I have the specification in my pocket. The model is at home. I brought it from Paris."
The pistol shot brought Wiggleswick, who, in his turn, brought whiskey and soda, and the two friends finished the afternoon in great amity. Before taking his departure Sypher asked whether he might read through the proofs of the gun book at home. "I think I know enough of machinery and mathematics to understand what you're driving at, and I should like to examine these guns of yours.
Many of his books and papers had been sent him from time to time by Wiggleswick, who began to dread the post, the labor of searching and packing and dispatching becoming too severe a tax on the old villain's leisure.
She found contentment in procrastination. It had also been a mild amusement to settle Septimus Dix, after his recovery, in a little house facing the common. He had to inhabit some portion of this planet, and as he had no choice of spot save Hackney Downs, which Wiggleswick suggested, Zora waved her hand to the tenantless house and told him to take it.
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