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It was, by Jove! "In those days I was a bit wild, I guess. I did not get out of school with much honor. I used to ride steeple-chase and hurdle races and dance all night. Sometimes, too, I had a scrap, and was careless about the money I spent. The old barrister his name was Jenvie believed I was the worst kid in the United Kingdom.
The officer who had sent for the saddle had watched everything; so when Sedgwick dismounted he held out his hand and said, heartily: "I beg your pardon, Mr. Sedgwick, I was mistaken in you. You do more than ride. When mounted, you and the horse together make a centaur." With a celestial smile, Miss Jenvie said: "I beg your pardon, Mr. Sedgwick. Mr.
"Considering who asked the question, it would be cruel not to tell you it was Jack," he replied. All laughed, and Miss Jenvie said: "Is it true, did you and Jack first meet underground?" "Indeed we did," said Sedgwick, "and we were neither of us handsomely attired. I thought he was a gnome; he thought me a Chinese dragon." Then Miss Grace interposed; "Mr.
It'll be all the sweeter when this accursed bitter cup shall be passed." And Sedgwick answered: "You are right, old friend, but the dear girl will suffer. That last smile was such as is given when hearts break." When the old men, Jenvie and Hamlin, reached their homes that evening and learned what had transpired during the day, they were dumfounded.
One evening Rose Jenvie her real name was Leighton, she was my glory, you know had been visiting my foster-sister, and remaining until after dark, I walked home with her. It was a starlit night in summer, and we talked as we walked as young people do.
"At this he turned upon me, ordered me off the grounds, and added that if I did not go at once he would kick me over the hedge. Then I laughed and said: 'Oh, no, Mr. Jenvie, you certainly would not do that. "Something in my voice, I guess, vexed him, for he sprang at me like a Siberian wolf.
Sedgwick kept a steady face, but his heart was throbbing so that he feared the company would hear it. Then Jenvie asked Sedgwick if mining in Nevada was not mostly carried on by rough and rude men. Sedgwick's face became grave in a moment, as he said: "We must judge men by the motives behind their lives, if we would get at what they really are.
"I am too confused to think," said Hamlin. "We got Jack's money from him, and yet he and Rose are married, and it seems with Rose's mother's full consent," said Jenvie. "And a stranger of whom we know almost nothing has married Grace and left her at the church door, and it was with her mother's full consent, also," said Hamlin.
"He has no settlement to make," said Grace; "but I think he would recommend Jack to settle that way." "And where could we meet Jack?" asked Jenvie. "I do not know," said Grace, "nor is it necessary. I think the broker with whom you dealt in the stocks has authority to settle. That was a little trap set for you. There is not a share of the stock that is not in the company's office at this moment."
But the story got out through Emanuel; their prestige was broken, and they closed up their business within a few days, and disappeared from the business walks of London. Two months later Jenvie died in a moment of apoplexy; the succeeding autumn Hamlin succumbed to typhoid fever, and Stetson sailed away to lose himself in the depths of Australia.
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