The house of a thousand candles
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 'Tour grandfather should have provided a guardian for you, lad. You oughtn't to be trusted with money. Is that bottle empty ? Well, if that person with the fat neck was your friend Pickering, I'd have a care of wha...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 'Tour grandfather should have provided a guardian for you, lad. You oughtn't to be trusted with money. Is that bottle empty ? Well, if that person with the fat neck was your friend Pickering, I'd have a care of what's coming to me. I'd be quite sure that Mr. Pickering hadn't made away with the old gentleman's boodle, or that it didn't get lost on the way from him to me." "The time's running now, and I'm in for the year. My grandfather was a fine old gentleman, and I treated him like a dog. I'm going to do what he directs in that will no matter what the size of the reward may be." "Certainly; that's the eminently proper thing for you to do. But,- but keep your wits about you. If a fellow with that neck can't find money where money has been known to exist, it must be buried pretty deep. Your grandfather was a trifle eccentric, I judge, but not a fool by any manner of means. The situation appeals to my imagination, Jack. I like the idea of it,- the lost treasure and the whole business. Lord, what a salad that is! Cheer up, comrade! You're as grim as an owl!" Whereupon we fell to talking of people and places we had known in other lands. We spent the next day together, and in the evening,at my hotel, he criticized my effects while I packed, in his usual ironical vein. "You're not going to take those things with you, I hope!" He indicated the rifles and several revolvers which I brought from the closet and threw upon the bed. "They make me homesick for the jungle." He drew from its cover the heavy rifle I had used last on a leopard hunt and tested its weight. "Precious little use you'll have for this! Better let me take it back to The Sod to use on the landlords. I say, Jack, are we never to seek our fortunes together again ? We hit it off pretty well, old man, come ...
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