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Which would be better, Mukhum Dass to keep great silence, and be certain to receive the paper in time to defend the lawsuit, or to talk freely, and so set others talking?" Who knows that it might not reach the ears of Jengal Singh that the title-deed is truly lost?" "He who tells secrets to a priest," swore the money-lender, "would better have screamed them from the housetop. "Nay the god heard.
"To save Maxime's life," she said, "to save all my own happiness, I went to the money-lender you know of, a man of iron forged in hell-fire; nothing can melt him; I took all the family diamonds that M. de Restaud is so proud of his and mine too and sold them to that M. Gobseck. Sold them! Do you understand? I saved Maxime, but I am lost. Restaud found it all out." "How? Who told him?
He was dressed in a brown canvas tunic with brass buttons, and his riding breeches were concealed in, a pair of well-worn leather "chaps." A Stetson hat worn at the exact angle on his head, with his official "side arms" secured round his waist, completed a very picturesque appearance. "Morning, Horrocks," said the money-lender. "This is a pretty business you've come down on.
"Then how can the letter be your property, my dear Mr. Levy?" There was a pause. The money-lender was at visible grips with some new difficulty. I watched his heavy but not unhandsome face, and timed the moment of mastery by the sudden light in his crafty eyes. "They think it was written by me," said he.
Lablache, for it was the fleshy money-lender, slid, as agilely as his great bulk would permit him, from the vehicle, and the two men took charge of the horses. Bill was not altogether cordial. It was not his way to be so to anybody but his friends. "How are you?" he said with a nod, but without rising from his recumbent attitude. "Goin' to stay long?"
The hand was dealt, and the money-lender won with three aces, all of which he had drawn in a five-card draw. He had discarded a pair of nines to make the heavy draw. It was clumsy, but he had been forced to it. The position of the aces in the pack he had known, and well, he meant to win. Five two. The clumsiness of that deal was too palpable. Old John suspected, but held his tongue.
There was no necessity to look down deliberately to see the reflection of each card as it passed on its way to its recipient, a glance just the glance necessary when dealing cards and the money-lender, by a slight effort of memory, knew every hand that was out. Lablache was cheating. To say that "Lord" Bill was astonished would be wrong. He was not. He had long suspected it.
Greenwood tries to disable the evidence when Shakespeare is alluded to as an author, so he tries to better his case when, in the account-book of Philip Henslowe, an owner of theatres, money-lender, pawn-broker, purchaser of plays from authors, and so forth, Shakespeare is NOT mentioned at all. Here is a mystery which, properly handled, may advance the great cause.
The first few hands resulted in but desultory betting. Sums of money changed hands but there was very little in it. Lablache was the principal loser. Three "pots" in succession were taken by John Allandale, but their aggregate did not amount to half the limit. A little luck fell to Bunning-Ford. He once raised Lablache to the limit. The money-lender "saw" him and lost.
There is no great difference, he elsewhere considers, between a money-lender and a murderer; and it must be allowed that his acts did not fall short of his words when governor of Sardinia, by his rigorous administration of the law he drove the Roman bankers to their wits' end.
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