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Tredgold, shaking his head. "You forget that I lost two pounds to Chalk the other day, owing to your efforts." "Well, I don't wish for it," said Miss Drewitt, firmly. "Please don't say anything to my uncle about it." Mr. Tredgold looked disappointed. "As you please, of course," he remarked. "Old things always seem a little bit musty," said the girl, softening a little.
I little knew when I told you, my dears, to have nothing more to do with Farmer King and his daughter, that I was preventing your enjoying the society of a gentleman. Please shake hands with me, Mr. King." Farmer King's face was quite pale with emotion. "I admire you; I thank you," said Miss Tredgold. "You are a man in a thousand;" and again she held out her hand. This time Farmer King wrung it.
The girls all drank their coffee, and each pronounced it the nicest drink they had ever taken. Presently Miss Tredgold went into the garden. She invited Verena and Pauline to accompany her. "The rest of you can stay behind," she said. "You can talk about me to each other as much as you like.
"Tell us how you escaped," said Tredgold; "or, perhaps," he continued, hastily, as Brisket was about to speak "perhaps you would like first to hear how we did." "Perhaps that would be better," said the perplexed Brisket. He nudged the mate with his elbow, and Mr.
"I'll tell you where to go without being seen in the matter or letting old Todd know that I'm in it. Ask him a price and bate him down; when you've got his lowest, come to me and give me one pound in every ten I save you." Mr. Tredgold looked at his friends. "If we do that," he said, turning to the captain, "it would be to your interest to buy the ship in any case.
And I shouldn't wonder if your perturbed spirit walks the captain's bedroom afterwards." Miss Drewitt looked up and eyed the speaker with scornful comprehension. "Take the bet, Mr. Chalk," she said, slowly. Mr. Chalk turned in hopeful amaze; then he leaned over and shook hands solemnly with Mr. Tredgold. "I'll take the bet," he said.
A man that used to work for him once told me that he was only half a gentleman, but he'd never seen that half." Mr. Stobell, afraid to trust himself, got up and leaned out of the window. "Well, we're all agreed, then," said Tredgold, looking round. "Half a second," said Miss Vickers.
He unfastened the rope, and the end was thrown down to the window, and Job Tredgold, the other man, fastened it round him and was hauled up as Geoffrey had been. "We will move along now to that stack of chimneys coming through the roof four feet below the ridge on the town side," Geoffrey said. "We can stand down there out of sight of the Spaniards.
"You've got the treasure all right, and you're keeping it quiet and telling this tale to do me out of my share. I haven't done with you yet. You wait!" She flung out into the hall, and Mr. Vickers, after a lofty glance at Mr. Stobell, followed her outside. "And now we'll go and hear what Mr. Tredgold has to say," she said, as they walked up the road. "And after that, Mr. Chalk." Mr.
Chalk threw off from time to time as to the course they should pursue were hardly noticed. "One o'clock," said Mr. Stobell, extracting a huge silver timepiece from his pocket, after a couple of wasted hours. "Let's have something to eat before we do any more," said Mr. Tredgold. "After that we'll ferry over and look at the other side."
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