"
Then I heard Wilton's best English voice at the end of the study:
"My dear sir, I have explained twenty times already, I wanted to get
that scarab in time for dinner. Suppose you had left an important
legal document in the same way?"
"That touch of cunning is very significant," my fellow-practitioner
- since he insisted on it - muttered.
"I am very happy, of course, to meet you; but if you had only sent
your president down to dinner here, I could have settled the thing
in half a minute. Why, I could have bought the Buchonian from him
while your clerks were sending me this." Wilton dropped his hand
heavily on the blue-and-white correspondence, and the lawyer started.
"But, speaking frankly," the lawyer replied, "it is, if I may say
so, perfectly inconceivable, even in the case of the most important
legal documents, that any one should stop the three-forty express
- the Induna - Our Induna, my dear sir."
"Absolutely!" my companion echoed; then to me in a lower tone: "You
notice, again, the persistent delusion of wealth. I was called in
when he wrote us that. You can see it is utterly impossible for
the Company to continue to run their trains through the property of
a man who may at any moment fancy himself divinely commissioned to
stop all traffic.
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