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192 LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY.
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all certainly sounded very wild and queer; but he chanced to want
something to do very much, and he chanced to know Dick, and
Dick chanced to say his say in a very sharp, telling sort of way.
“And,” said Mr. Hobbs, "say what your time s worth a hour
and look into this thing thorough, and /’// pay the damage,—Silas
Hobbs, corner of Blank street, Vegetables and Fancy Groceries.”
“Well,” said Mr. Harrison, ‘it will be a big thing if it turns out
all right, and it will be almost as big a thing for me as for Lord
Fauntleroy; and, at any rate, no harm can be done by investigating.
It appears there has been some dubiousness about the child. The
woman contradicted herself in some of her statements about his age,
and aroused suspicion. The first persons to be written to are Dick’s
brother and the Earl of Dorincourt’s family lawyer.”
And actually, before the sun went down, two letters had been
written and sent in two different directions—one speeding out of
New York harbor on a mail steamer on its way to England, and the
other on a train carrying letters and passengers bound for Calli¬
fornia. And the first was addressed to T. Havisham, Esq., and the
second to Benjamin J ipton. |
And after the store was closed that evening, Mr. Hobbs and
Dick sat in the back-room and talked together until midnight.