A Golden Heart (V. 2)

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126

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195 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Since Carlyon's death he had struck up a close friendship with Carlyon's lawyer, whose name did not stand too high for honest dealings. Mr. Creech was a very shrewd old man, who had done many a roguish act in his day. He was much employed on political and mining business, and had great experience in both matters, so that he was sought after for these specialities. He and Cormack got on well together, and did many a sly stroke of business in partnership. It was a curious thing, that Cormack took great pains to keep the old man in good humour;?he was a cranky man in his temper was Creech '?and Cormack was not the kind of fellow to spend such trouble unless it were for a profitable purpose. There was a mystery about this, which I hardly think is cleared up by the explanation that the captain required the lawyer's services in the promotion of the long-projected mine on the moors behind Polvrehan. For this scheme was to be worked now. The captain saw how the rage for mining was spreading, and he felt that the time had arrived for setting his little speculation afoot. He, however, had no intention of originating the mine himself. Creech was to get together the company,and Cormack was to give him permission to work the lode on his property. What Creech was to get for his share of the swindle, I cannot say exactly, but it was far more than the magnitude of the work he would have to do entitled him to. The lawyer knew well how to set about his task. He set some miners out of employment to prospect for ore?that is to say, to see if there were any chance of getting on a rich lode on the moors. He pnt in command over the prospecters a mine-captain whose occupation was gone, thanks to the utter collapse of the last company he had worked for. You will hardly wonder, then, that before many da...

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