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Listen, dearest; all that I know, all that we know of Crinkett is, that he is asking money of me because the purchase he made of me has turned out badly for him. 'But he is to marry that woman, who says that she is Then she stopped, looking into his face with agony. She could not bring herself to utter the words which would signify that another woman claimed to be her husband's wife.
Crinkett and the woman have been with the mayor this morning, and have been told the way in which they should proceed. Caldigate, when he heard this, felt that he was trembling, but he looked into the speaker's face without allowing his eyes to turn to the right or left. 'I am not going to say anything now about the case itself. Indeed, as I know nothing, I can say nothing.
To him the effort made was even more difficult than to her; as was right; for she at any rate had been blameless. Then the Boltons went away, as had been arranged, and also Uncle Babington while the men still remained. 'If you don't mind, squire, I'll take a turn with you, said Crinkett at last; 'while Jack can sit anywhere about the place. 'Certainly, said Caldigate.
There he saw, on a seat divided from himself by the breadth of the little nave, Thomas Crinkett sitting with another man. There was not a shadow of a doubt on his mind as to the identity of the Australian nor as to that of Crinkett's companion.
After they had learned their trade as miners it might be very well for them to have shares in some established concern; but in that case he would wish to be one of the managers himself, and not to trust everything to any Crinkett, however honest. That suggestion of travelling about and amusing themselves, did not commend itself to him.
'He had quarrelled with his wife at that time and had sent her away from Nobble. Mrs. Smith was then living at Nobble, and Crinkett knew more about her than I did. She was mad after gold, and it was with Crinkett she was working. I gave her a lot of shares in another mine to leave me. 'What mine? 'The Old Stick-in-the-Mud they called it.
It was a large parlour, only half furnished, not yet papered, without a carpet, in which it appeared that Mr. Crinkett kept his own belongings. Here he divested himself of his black clothes and put on a suit of miner's garments, real miner's garments, very dirty, with a slouch hat, on the top of which there was a lump of mud in which to stick a candle-end.
But when she got in that way about her money, and then took to drinking brandy, Caldigate was only too glad to be rid of her. Crinkett believed in her because she had such a run of luck. She held a lot of his shares, shares that used to be his. So they got together, and she left Ahalala and went to Polyeuka Hall. I remember it all as if it were yesterday.
'Did she call herself Mrs. Caldigate? 'I never called her so. 'Did she herself assume the name? 'It was a wild kind of life up there, Robert, and this was apparent in nothing more than in the names people used. I daresay some of the people did call her Mrs. Caldigate. But they knew she was not my wife. 'And this man Crinkett? 'He knew all about it. 'He had a wife. Did his wife know her?
It was held in his mind as a certain fact, that John Caldigate would not have paid away that large sum of money had he not thought that by doing so he was buying off Crinkett and the other witnesses. Of course there had been a marriage in Australia, and therefore the arrival of Dick Shand was to him only a lifting of the curtain for another act of the play.
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