Chapter Thirty Nine.
The Call Book.
The General could no longer keep his seat. At the unexpected information communicated by Mr Lawson, he had started up, and commenced pacing the floor in short irregular strides, at intervals exclaiming, “Strange, damme!”
“If I had known this,” he said more continuously—“If I had known this, all might yet have been well. Never got the thousand pounds, you say?”
“Never a penny of it, from me.”
“I’m so glad to hear it—so glad!”
“True, you should be. It’s no doubt so much money saved; that is, if you think it might have been spent foolishly.”
“Nothing of that kind, sir; nothing of the sort!”