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Next to his lass, every sailor loves a spree; and mine, instead of emptying, shall fill the locker. With this disgusting peace on, and no chance of prize-money, and plenty in their pockets for a good spell ashore, blue-jackets will be scarce when Sir Duncan Yordas sails. What do you think of such filial devotion?"
"My pleasure, or rather my business, is with Mr. Jellicorse, the lawyer." "Then, sir, you have come to the right man for it. My name is Jellicorse, and greatly at your service. Allow me the honor of inviting you within." "My name is Yordas Sir Duncan Yordas," said the stranger, when seated in the lawyer's private room.
With such a dispensation Sir Duncan Yordas saw no right to interfere, but left the course of true love to itself, after taking down the sailor's name "Ned Faithful." However, he resolved to follow out the clew of beads, though without much hope of any good result.
Jellicorse answered, with a smile of disbelief, craftily rousing the pugnacity of the man; "because he was not even in the army of the Company, or any other army. I mean, of course, unless there was some other Duncan Yordas." "Tell me!" Jack o' Smithies almost shouted "tell me about Duncan Yordas, indeed! Who he was, and what he wasn't! And what do lawyers know of such things?
But now these reflections were all too late, and the weary brain found comfort only in the shelter of its night-cap. If a little slip had brought a very good man to unhappiness, how much harder was it for Sir Duncan Yordas, who had committed no offense at all!
Right craftily then did he fetch a young member of the firm, who delighted in angling, to take his holiday at Middleton, and fish the goodly Tees; and by gentle and casual discourse of gossip, in hours of hospitality, out of him he hooked and landed all that his firm knew of the Yordas race.
This would form the basis of the abstract now to be furnished to Sir Walter Carnaby, with little to be added but the will of Philip Yordas, and statement of facts to be verified. Mr. Jellicorse was fat, but very active still; he liked good living, but he liked to earn it, and could not sit down to his dinner without feeling that he had helped the Lord to provide these mercies.
On board that unfortunate ship, and perhaps even before he left India, he was always called the 'Young Sahib, and he used, having proud little ways of his own, to shout, if anybody durst provoke him, 'I'se young Sahib, I'se young Sahib; which we rendered into 'Izunsabe. But his true name is Wilton Bart Yordas, I believe, and the initials can be made out upon his gold beads, Mr.
Upround's care, he had done his best to provide that mischief should not come of gossip; and the only way to prevent that issue is to preclude the gossip. Sir Duncan Yordas, having lived so long in a large commanding way, among people who might say what they pleased of him, desired no concealment here, and accepted it unwillingly.
But Robin, with a grace and elegance which he must have imported from foreign parts, declined all connection and acquaintance with them, and declared his set resolve to have nothing to do with the name of "Yordas."
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