"Oh, I mustn't threaten it," said Green, "or I shall never have the
stomach to do it. But dear me, this boozing ken is a very unfit place for
you,--you are champagne-gents, not dog's nose ones. Now you part and make
tracks for home, one on foot and one in a fly. You won't see me, nor hear
of me again, till I've something fresh."
And so the confederates parted, and Sampson and Edward met at Albion
Villa; and Edward told his mother what they had done, and his conviction
that Mr. Hardie was innocent, and Alfred a slanderer as well as a
traitor: "And indeed," said he, "if we had but stopped to reflect, we
should have seen how unlikely the money was not to be lost in the _Agra._
Why, the _'Tiser_ says she went to pieces almost directly she struck.
What we ought to have done was, not to listen to Alfred Hardie like
fools, but write to Lloyd's like people in their senses. I'll do it this
minute, and find out the surviving officers of the ship: they will be
able to give us information on that head." Mrs. Dodd approved; and said
she would write to her kind correspondent Mrs.
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