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All the world knew that Crinkett and Euphemia Smith were in custody, and still no tidings came, yet the husband, convicted on the evidence of these perjurers, was detained in prison! Hope deferred maketh the heart sick, and Hester's heart was very sick within her. 'Why do they not tell me something? she said when her father-in-law vainly endeavoured to comfort her. Why not, indeed?
Crinkett was the next, who swore that he had been Caldigate's partner in sundry mining speculations, that they had been in every way intimate, that he had always recommended Caldigate to marry Mrs.
While Dick Shand's 'shout' was being consumed, Caldigate asked one of his new friends where Mr. Crinkett lived. Was Mr. Crinkett known in Nobble? It seemed that Crinkett was very well known in Nobble indeed. If anybody had done well at Nobble, Mr. Crinkett had done well. He was the 'swell' of the place. This informant did not think that Mr. Crinkett had himself gone very deep at Ahalala. Mr.
Crinkett had taken his half with many grumblings, because he had, in truth, arranged the matter and hitherto paid the expenses. Then the woman had wished to start at once for Australia, taking the other female with her. But to this Crinkett had objected.
'And who is to keep the joint purse? asked Mrs. Smith, not without a touch of grand irony. 'Me, of course, said Crinkett. 'A man always must have the money. 'I'd sooner have fourteen years for perjury, like the Claimant, said Mrs. Smith, with a grand resolve that, come what might, she would stick to her own money. But at last it was decided.
Crinkett was there in time, and they were carried safely down the river. New Zealand had been chosen because there they would be further from their persecutors than at any other spot they could reach.
'Have you brought a receipt signed by both of you? Then Bollum handed him a receipt signed 'Timothy Crinkett, for self and partners. But Caldigate demanded that the woman also should sign it. 'There is a difficulty about the name, you see, said Bollum. There was a difficulty about the name, certainly.
One won't say anything about what price they'll charge you. Have you got any money? Then Caldigate made a lengthened speech, in which he explained so much of their circumstances as seemed necessary. He did not name the exact sum which had been left at the bank in Melbourne, but he did make Mr. Crinkett understand that they were not paupers.
Then there came the bustle preparatory to starting, and Crinkett thought that he was free, at any rate, for that journey. But such bustle spreads itself over many minutes. Quarter of an hour succeeded quarter of an hour, and still they were not off. The last passenger came on board, and yet they were not off.
I wasn't rough to you when you came to Polyeuka Hall without very much in your pocket. This was untrue, for Crinkett had been rough, and Caldigate's pockets had been full of money; but there could be no good got by contradicting him on small trifles. 'I was a good mate to you then. You wouldn't even have got your finger into the "Old Stick-in-the-Mud," nor yet into Polyeuka, but for me.
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