There's one or
two I don't see, but then they are real gentlemen, and thinks of me as
well as theirselves, and doesn't blab."
"I must have been drunk," said Falcon apologetically. "More likely
blowing a cloud. When you young gents gets a-smoking together,
you'd tell on your own mothers. Come along, colonel, off we go to
Merrimashee."
"Why, it is only twenty-six pounds. I have paid the rest."
"More than that; there's the costs."
"Come in, and I'll settle it."
"All right, sir. Jem, watch the back."
"Oh, I shall not try that game with a sharp hand like you, Cartwright."
"You had better not, sir," said Cartwright; but he was softened a little
by the compliment.
When they were alone, Falcon began by saying it was a bad job for him.
"Why, I thought you was a-going to pay it all in a moment."
"I can't; but I have got a friend over the way that could, if she chose.
She has always got money, somehow."
"Oh, if it is a she, it is all right."
"I don't know. She has quarrelled with me; but give me a little time.
Here! have a glass of sherry and a biscuit, while I try it on."
Having thus muffled Cartwright, this man of the world opened his window
and looked out. The crowd had followed the captured dogcart, so he had
the street to himself.
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