This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iv. the new overland route. "in the first place, Saxon," said Mr. Trefalden, " I have done for you what I suppose you would never have thought of doing for yourself: I have had your account made up at Drummond's. I confess that the result has somewhat surprised me." "Why so?" "Well, not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iv. the new overland route. "in the first place, Saxon," said Mr. Trefalden, " I have done for you what I suppose you would never have thought of doing for yourself: I have had your account made up at Drummond's. I confess that the result has somewhat surprised me." "Why so?" "Well, not because you have spent a great deal of money in a very short time, for I anticipated that; but because so many of your cheques appear to have gone into the pockets of your friends. Here, for instance, is the name of Sir Charles Burgoyne--a name which recurs no fewer than fourteen times. The first entry is for five hundred and twenty-five pounds; date, the twenty-fourth of March." "That was for the mare and cab," said Saxon, quickly. "It was his own favourite mare, and he let me have her. He had been offered five hundred and fifty, only a day or two before." Mr. Trefalden smiled dubiously, and glanced back at a memorandum entered in his note-book a few weeks before, when sitting behind that morning paper in a window of the Erectheum club-house. The memorandum told a different tale. He contented himself, however, with writing the words " mare and cab " against the sum, and then went on. "Second cheque--six hundred and ten pounds; date, the twenty-ninth of March." "My two riding horses and their equipments," explained Saxon. "Humph! and were these also Sir Charles Burgoyne's favourites?" "No, not at all. He was kind enough to buy them for me, from a friend who was reducing his establishment," Mr. Trefalden checked off the six hundred and ten pounds, as before. "Third cheque--two thousand pounds; date, the thirty-first of March." "Oh, that's nothing," said Saxon. "That's not spent--it's only borrowed," "By Sir Charles Burgoyne?" "Yes." "And the next...
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