“Oh, of course,” cried Gwyn. “Then you’d better come. There must be about room enough in a place like that.”
Joe laughed merrily; and then with a serious look,—
“I say, though,” he cried, “I really would keep Grip tied up for a bit.”
“I sha’n’t, not for all the Tom Dinasses between here and Van Diemen’s Land. I will keep him with me, though; I don’t want my lord to be bitten. Wonder whether that fellow will come soon for his money. We’ll shut Grip in the inner office, for we don’t want another scene.”
Chapter Forty Six.
A Dog’s Opinion.
But Tom Dinass did not go to the office for his promised money, neither was he seen by anyone; and Gwyn began to doubt the truth of the report till it was confirmed by Harry Vores, who stated that his “Missus” saw the man go into a lawyer’s office, and that there was the name on the brass plate, “Dix.”
This recalled the visit they had had from a man of that name.