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Up to this time they had been standing, but now Yram, seeing my father calmer, said, "Enough, let us sit down." So saying she seated herself at one end of the small table that was in the cell, and motioned my father to sit opposite to her. "The light hurts you?" she said, for the sun was coming into the room. "Change places with me, I am a sun worshipper.
"I will answer for him," said Yram, with even more than her usual quick, frank smile, "that he will fulfil his instructions to the letter, unless," she added, "some black and white horses come down from heaven and snatch poor Higgs out of his grasp. Such things have happened before now." "I should advise your son to shoot them if they do," said Hanky drily and sub-defiantly.
"But this," said Yram, "being gold, is a large sum: can you indeed spare it, and do you really wish George to have it all?" "I shall be very unhappy if he does not, but he must know nothing about it till I am out of Erewhon." My father then explained to her that he was now very rich, and would have brought ten times as much, if he had known of George's existence.
It was now about half-past four, so that much more must have been said and done after luncheon at the Mayor's than ever reached my father. The wonder is that he was able to collect so much. He, poor man, as soon as George left him, flung himself on to the bed that was in his cell and lay there wakeful, but not unquiet, till near the time when Yram reached the gaol.
"Of course I do not doubt that it was an accident; nevertheless if your study had not been accidentally burned, on the very night the clothes were entrusted to you for earnest, patient, careful, scientific investigation and Yram very nearly burned too we should never have carried it through.
Here Panky laid his arms on the table, buried his head in them, and burst into tears. Every one seemed aghast, but the Mayor, Yram, and Mrs. Humdrum saw that George was enjoying it all far too keenly to be serious. Dr. George pounded away ruthlessly at his case. "I say nothing about your having bought quails from the prisoner and eaten them.
All the time the companionship of the dog was an unspeakable comfort to me. My hands trembled as I took the watches, and the brooches for Yram and her daughters from my saddle-bags, which I then hung, probably on the very bough on which my father had hung them. Needless to say, I also hung my saddle and bridle along with the saddle-bags.
Humdrum?" interrupted Hanky none too pleasantly, for he was still furious about the duel that had just taken place between himself and his hostess. "My dear Professor," said Yram good-humouredly, "pray say all you have to say and I will continue." Hanky was silent. "I have asked," resumed Yram, "Dr. Downie and Mrs.
My father, knowing that he might not have another chance of seeing Yram alone, now changed the conversation. "I have something," he said, "for George, but he must know nothing about it till after I am gone." As he spoke, he took from his pockets the nine small bags of nuggets that remained to him.
This accounted for the sounds of coughing and groaning which I had often noticed as coming from the other side of the wall: it was high, and I had not dared to climb it for fear the jailor should see me and think that I was trying to escape; but I had often wondered what sort of people they could be on the other side, and had resolved on asking the jailor; but I seldom saw him, and Yram and I generally found other things to talk about.
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