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Cantercot," he said, rubbing his hands, half from cold, half from usage; "what have you brought me?" "Nothing," said Denzil, "but if you will lend me a sovereign I'll do you a stunner." The operatic villain shook his locks, his eyes full of pawky cunning. "If you did it after that, it would be a stunner."
Crowl sat meekly eating his supper of bread and cheese, with his head bandaged, while Denzil Cantercot told him the story of how he had rescued Tom Mortlake. He had been among the first to scale the height, and had never budged from Tom's side or from the forefront of the battle till he had seen him safely outside and into a by-street.
By a miracle Wimp was at home in the afternoon. He was writing when Denzil was ushered up three pairs of stairs into his presence, but he got up and flashed the bull's-eye of his glance upon the visitor. "Mr. Denzil Cantercot, I believe," said Wimp. Denzil started. He had not sent up his name, merely describing himself as a gentleman. "That is my name," he murmured.
"You good-for-nothing, disreputable scare-crow, where have " "Hush, mother. Let him drink. Mr. Cantercot is thirsty." "Does he care if my children are hungry?" Denzil tossed the water greedily down his throat almost at a gulp, as if it were brandy. "Madam," he said, smacking his lips, "I do care. I care intensely.
As for Grodman, there was almost a lump in his throat. Denzil Cantercot was the only unmoved man in the room. He thought the episode quite too Beautiful, and was already weaving it into rhyme. At the conclusion of his speech Mr. Gladstone called upon Tom Mortlake to unveil the portrait. Tom rose, pale and excited. He faltered as he touched the cord. He seemed overcome with emotion.
Grodman stood on the platform, grasping the back of his chair, a curious mocking Mephistophelian glitter about his eyes, his lips wreathed into a half smile. There was no hurry for him to get Denzil Cantercot arrested now. Wimp had made an egregious, a colossal blunder.
Crowl, who was not a member of the Break o' Day Club, was particularly anxious to hear the great orator whom he despised; fortunately Mortlake remembered the cobbler's anxiety to hear himself, and on the eve of the ceremony sent him a ticket. Crowl was in the first flush of possession when Denzil Cantercot returned, after a sudden and unannounced absence of three days.
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