CHAPTER XVI. UNKNOWN

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 274, 20 June 1888, Page 6

CHAPTER XVI. UNKNOWN

MkTikwk kept his word. He did conM<le« the mattei : and the moie he thought about it the le-s he liked Inflate behaviour. Now that he had commonecd to think teiiously about it. ho could not «;oti the subject out at his mind U haunted him, foi Mi Tinner a- not. a bad man at heait, he was onl\ too (\isily led. To tieat a man unjustly was not. one of Mi Turner's failing. that is, knowingly to do k>. Things--aid li\ Dakm about Mr Berwick came into his mind, things to which he felt now that he had been too ready a listener. And moie tlian once, attei thinking, he biouyht Ins clenched hand down on the table evclainnni; ' 0 n him'" It «ib not Berwick be was cuumuu. No; the moie he thouuht about him the m-m he kit inehned to beti lend him But he had moulted him. Jle uonldlva\e to apoloiji-o He would doit 100, b\ Jo\e he w ould ' ' Hani: it nil ' It (he >ounu lellow i- all nyhi,' he thought, 'no apology is uood enough toi him. It s .>]) thiouuh that ,1 (1 Dakin. I\e a £ieaf mind not to let him lu\e l.ue\ foi that. Vnd -o one thought leil to another. Dis-nn-t eiepl in upon him, iaintly~-\ er\ taint 1\ at thst— bur< i>iouin^ uraduall\ stion»j;ci nul sti oilier Da km hail latch been nmin>r a speedy mania^e ; he pleaded ha\mu waited a lonjj time The oln oentlem.in had mti ruled to i etne, -o soon ahe admitted Dakin into the famih. hotn all 'ictne lonneetion with business and to pine h<- son in-la\\ in -ole management, l;imd^ him a -hair a trooil .-h.ut'-m the conci in Nm\ doubt ueptin. h'tle suspieKiUf (.ik um-tani e» -hone out He -Us peeted Kikin —ot w nat He "\\ as ah aid to think what. Tins was netting unbeatable ' He w a- shocked at hi^ovwi thoughts, but the\ would i ome should be rail m Dakm and talk to him Fool! Was lie mail *' He seved hi*- hat and inched out, of the oliice into the .-net Wheie was he Ijojiil; ' lie knew not— uaied not. Hetoie, Kirlitn rh.m walked. alon<r the street. iSudderih he came up ,i;,'.iin-t a gentleman w llLin^ m the oppo-ite dtieetion. ' Halloa. Turnei,' cned he, ' jon neail\ upset me Wheie j>o tast "'" "1 bet; \i>ui paidon," -aid pool Mi Tumei. diawiny; lii» hand aeio— his foiehcad, ' 1 -nh, ye-, ah ' urn 1 What in the name ot noodne.-- i- the niartei, man ' You -cent seated," said the *t ranker. ' Do I" -ail Mi Turnei, uiadualh rol lectinu l)i- ideas. ' I belie\e I w.i- hieh way <ne >ou troint; - You aie tho \ei> man I want to -cc. 1 Vo? '' v;ud the vstianirei, wondeiingK • Jshall we a;o to my otlice '" 1 Well, >os, pei haps we bad beuei It's I all snut; theie, i -uppo-e 'Uoh 1 a- wax." said thc-tian^e:. ;cas-«r In l;1\ . j The} went of together, and entiied the i otiioe ot Mr Lo\ep:ioM > , accountant i imaneud auenr, | When ilr^ we;e seated. Mr Turnei, wiping the pei-phation oil hi- biow, com menced : • 1 think I ln\e known \ou lonjr enoiifcti, ' Lo\emo\e, to place implicit confidence in i jon 1- it not -o ' i * 'it i-, Turner. lf>ou would not trust me I don t knou who -hould i • Well, the mattei that i- tumbling me ii of a \»iy delicate natme, and, -tiaiv^c to ! =ay. it ncvei -truck me till thi- inoi nin<j. when th'Ukmic about an entudy dilleient ; thmir 1 had bettei tell you m\ sitspuioris. i It un|u-t it need ne\ei be known that 1 I entei tamtd them, eh '" '.lu-t -o, Tmnei. Teil mf u hat \ou like, and it I fin dv an> uood, >oii know \ on ma\ command me I 'Well, tht'n, to cut it "hoit, 1 want \ou ;to thoiou<£hly ouihaul m\ book- look I thoiouirhK into m\ atlaii- and i \v\ mi' know how I -Jtand. They -hould I bfai m-pef tion . indeed, 1 an 1 not atiaid tli.it theie i- atu thine ci v-otiou-:v -otiou- : but 1 cannot help thinking that iieic he lov.d-etl hi- l nice ' Dakm i- not actniL" ' <|uiie tail md -ijuax 1 -inceieh hope 1 ma\ !" mi-ffkon but I shall not be <<m t \inced until \ou hav 1 tbuionuliK in-jiechd . e\(t\thmir Nouwili li,i\u plent\ to dv, and i wi-h \ou to h>-f no time »vii it. ( vc it all I h«, at tention \ou can. Wdl\ou ! undei fake the bu-tne— > " ' [ *( wi unl\ Nou mas rely upon m\ j.m\ 1 iwj. the inattei in\ hi -t attention 'Th.iP.k-. Now. how bad webittii -ct about it, -i> a- not to U-t Dakm -u-pcet in\ thin^' ''. •Oli, -aid Mi Loucriow, '1 should not UK<icisu any -ccicfv ovei it. If Dakm iall ncjht ho will not -u-p< ct an\ i hmi; : and it he i- wtun^f. \\\\\ it do» - not nuittei much w hat he I hink- ' "fine. I had lailni he kn»'W- nothing about H, ail the -.me 'I undei -tatid \ out fcoliu^-, Tinner, but it \ on will take m\ advice sou will ha\<itl«u os et haul do'>c ofienlv Jt i- not an un u-ual tiling in Ini-ine-'-, noii know, and \ mi ma\ depend upon it that if we try to keep it quiet it will leak uut, and what^ou ti y tuptcsentudl take place. D.dsiu will aL on? c tliink fiom tlio 'ccifc\ tliat lie i-su-pfeted, whether bo ix. ii^bt oi wtoiifr ' ' \'ety fci-ue, Lovcirio\c. \ou always had a larwji head than I ; H I had onh Void- head I should not now be foimented b> these douhtf. Veiy %seIU tb<;n, will jou set about ir. at once v M'es, ( hat. is -what aic >ou doin^ tonj^h) ' Aiejou rnjraj^cd -/ ' No, nothinrr particular, why '' c Sn])po.so yon moot ino fit your office to nit^ht, after ofhec boui- '-ay ci<4ht o'clock, yon enn tl)en show me round." ' Vc-, I will flo ibat tiie \ei v thinjr, and J shall be able to explain mat teis a little, thourjh. aft you know, book- and I ncvci did atriee.' ' Oh, leave the })ooks to mo. If there ha-, been any cookinu- jroiu^ on, you may tiust me to tiace it out. 'J am sure of t7hat. Well, ei^ht o'c}<*cl< then.' A))d with thi-> Mi Turner left the oihee.