For, indeed, it was high time for him to think seriously of putting his hand to the plough, only, at present, he was not quite sure in which direction to look for that useful implement4, or rather, for its latter-day equivalent.
He had been going into the question of his finances, and had found that in hard cash he was worth a matter of between forty and fifty pounds, that sum representing the balance of his last quarter's allowance. He had a tolerable stock of jewellery and trinkets, which would always fetch something should the worst come to the worst. His uncle had discharged all his liabilities, so that his calculations were not disturbed by any question of what he owed to others. It was true that in the interim5 he had run up various little accounts with his tailor, his bootmaker, and so on. But such trifles were not worth a second thought. He had always accustomed his tradespeople to waiting, and he had no wish to hurt their feelings by offering them ready money. It was with a clear conscience that he said to himself, "When a fellow finds himself in a fix such as I'm in now, there's really a sort of sweet satisfaction in knowing that he doesn't owe a shilling to a soul."
But fifty pounds, even if doled6 out with the most cheeseparing economy, will not last for ever, and when the end of it should be reached, what then? He had not forgotten "old Garden's" offer to be his banker till brighter days should dawn; but he was by no means inclined to accept it. "As he said, a spell of hard work will do me good, and I'll work my fingers to the bone before I'll apply to him."
Evidently the first thing to be done was to get rid of his rooms, which were within fifty yards of New Bond Street, and move into lodgings7 which would accord better with the exiguity8 of his resources. But it was requisite9 that he should either find a fresh tenant10 or give a month's notice. Fortunately he knew a fellow who was dissatisfied with his own "diggings," and would jump at the chance of securing his.
In the interval11 between his last interview with Mr. Garden and his afternoon at Twysden Court he had had ample time to turn over a score of different projects in his mind, each of which, however, when he came to consider it in detail, proved to be either more or less impracticable, or else to have certain features in connection with it against which his somewhat fastidious taste revolted. He had spoken to the lawyer about enlisting13, but when he came to reckon up all that he had seen and been told about life in barracks (several of his acquaintances were military men), and to call to mind the class of persons from whom three-fourths of the British army is recruited, the prospect14 seemed to him the reverse of alluring15. Could he have made sure of being at once despatched on active service, where there would have been a chance of promotion16, he would have enlisted17 without hesitation18; but the thought of a dull, inglorious life in barracks and all that was implied thereby19, appalled20 him.
Had he but possessed21 the requisite capital, he would have gone out to the States, or Australia, and after serving a couple of years to the business, would have bought a cattle ranch22 or a sheep run, and have sunk or swum by the venture. But, as we have seen, his worldly fortune amounted to the preposterously23 inadequate24 sum of fifty pounds, all told.
Sometimes a great longing25 would come over him when he thought of these things, and a voice would seem to whisper in his ear, "What a consummate26 ass2 you must have been to tear up your uncle's cheque! Think of all you might have done with it. Think of----"
But at this point Burgo would jump up and begin to stamp about the room, swearing softly to himself as he did so.
No, not if it would have made him the owner of a dozen cattle ranches27, would he have accepted Sir Everard's cheque with the conditions attached to it.
Far rather would he starve.
It was no more than natural that at times his thoughts should revert28 to his other uncle, Mr. Denis Clinton, who was only two and a half years the junior of Sir Everard. To Burgo he was little more than a name. Uncle and nephew had never met since the latter was quite a child. Mr. Denis Clinton was a bachelor and a misogynist29, and a miser30 to boot. He had no belief in the claims of relationship, more especially in the case of relatives to whom fortune had not proved over kind. And that had been the hap31 of his sister Elinor--Burgo's mother--who, against the wishes of her relatives, had persisted in marrying a naval32 lieutenant33 of good family, but with no pecuniary34 resources except his pay, and a private income of a hundred a year. When, a few years later, Lieutenant Brabazon died, after a long illness, and deeply in debt, and when his widow found it imperative35 on her to appeal to her relatives for help, Denis Clinton had contented36 himself with sending her a twenty pound note, coupled with an intimation that she must not look to him for any further aid. He would not have been the man he was if at the same time he had not told her in the plainest possible terms that she had no one to thank for her indigent37 condition but herself, and that she had brought it all on by her own headstrong folly38.
Between Sir Everard and his brother there was no love lost. They were in every way so wholly the opposite of each other, and had been from their boyhood, they looked at life from two such different standpoints, that there seemed no common ground of unity1 between them. They had neither seen nor held any communication with each other for nearly a score years, nor had they any desire to do so.
Mr. Denis Clinton was the owner of a large but not very productive property on the borders of Yorkshire and Lancashire, attached to which was an old manor39 house, in which he lived a secluded40 and penurious41 life, "the world forgetting, by the world forgot." As matters stood at present he was next heir to the title and entailed42 estates.
But although, in his many musings over his position, Burgo's thoughts did occasionally revert to his Uncle Denis, it was never with any serious intention of applying to him for the pecuniary help needed to give him, Burgo, a fair start in life. Even if he could have sufficiently43 humbled44 his pride to ask him--which he knew to be an impossibility--he felt sure that his application would have been met by a refusal. All he used to say to himself was: "If my Uncle Denis had been a different kind of man from what he is, if he had been another Uncle Everard, then, perhaps, I might have made known my need to him, in which case, if he had chosen to hold out a helping45 hand, I should not have turned away."
As matters fell out, his choice of a profession was ultimately determined46 by accident.
One night, about eleven o'clock, as he was strolling along the Strand47, he came upon a crowd of men and boys at the corner of a side street, congregated48 round a hansom cab and a couple of stalwart policemen. Burgo was not fond of street crowds, and was proceeding49 to push his way through the fringe of this one, when he heard one man say to another, "What's the bloomin' row?" "A cabby wot's fell off his box in a fit, and cut his 'ead open," replied the other. Then a third man joined in, apparently50 a stranger to the others: "It's one of old Hendry's 'ansoms," he said. "All that's wanted is for the cabby to get inside his own flycatcher, and let some cove51 drive him home."
Burgo shouldered his way through the crowd till he had reached the heart of it.
"What's the matter, Robert?" he inquired of one of the policemen, as he slipped a shilling into his hand.
The man carried a finger to his helmet, but could tell him no more than he knew already.
"You are sure his fall was not the result of drink?" queried52 Mr. Brabazon.
"Sure of that, sir. I and my mate both know the man. He's a very decent sort of fellow, and a teetotaler."
"Is he much hurt?"
"Oh, no, sir; nothing to speak of. A little bit dazed-like, as you may see for yourself, but nothing more. Still, it's hardly safe to let him get on the box; he might be took like it again before he got to the yard."
"Certainly. I see that this is one of my friend Mr. Hendry's cabs, so I tell you what you had better do. Put the man inside, and I will drive him home to the yard." And with that he handed the constable53 his card.
The police were only too glad to be thus relieved of a difficulty which was detaining them from their more regular duties. Accordingly the man was bundled inside, while Burgo mounted to the perch54 behind; then the crowd divided to let him through, while somebody called out for a cheer for the "toff," which was heartily55 responded to.
Mr. Tobias Hendry was a jobmaster and cab proprietor56, well known to Burgo, who, in the course of his career, had had many a "trap" from him on hire--an elastic57 term which must be understood as including vehicles of various kinds. The only two horses Burgo had ever owned had been bought for him by Mr. Hendry, and when hard compulsion, in the shape of certain racing58 liabilities which he found a difficulty in meeting, had compelled him to part from them, it was "Toby H."--as he was generally called among his intimates--who, succeeded in disposing of them for him at a not too ruinous loss.
Mr. Hendry happened to be in the yard when Burgo drove in, but when the flaps of the hansom were flung back and Joey Bunch, with his ensanguined visage, stumbled out of the interior, and when, by the light of the lamp over the stable door, he recognised the driver, his face put on such an expression of comic perplexity that Burgo could not help laughing aloud.
"Been up to some of your little games, Mr. Brabazon, I reckon," said the jobmaster dryly. He was an elderly, wiry, rather undersized man, with iron-gray hair and short side whiskers to match.
"For once you are mistaken, Mr. Hendry," replied Burgo. And therewith he proceeded, as briefly59 as possible, to put the other in possession of the facts of the case.
"I'm really very much obliged to you, Mr. Brabazon," said the jobmaster. "It isn't every gentleman that would put himself to the trouble you have. As for Bunch, he's the most steady-going driver I have. I hope there's nothing serious the matter with him, but, of course, I must have him seen by a doctor before I can let him go out again. Yes, Mr. Brabazon, I'm very much obliged to you."
"But, as it happens, it is I who want to be obliged to you, Mr. Hendry."
"In what way can I serve you, sir?"
"If your office is empty, let us go in there for a few minutes." A sudden resolution (at the time it seemed to him almost like an inspiration) had come to him while he was driving Joey Bunch home.
The jobmaster led the way, and as soon as the office door was shut behind them Burgo said: "I don't know whether you are aware that my uncle, Sir Everard Clinton, has discarded me--cast me off--will have nothing more to do with me. But such is the unpleasant fact. It's not because I have kicked over the traces, or done anything to offend him, but simply because he has taken to himself a wife half his own age who, to serve some purpose of her own, has succeeded in poisoning his mind and setting him against me. Now, as I have very little money, and can't live on air, it's evident I must find work of some kind. The worst of it is that I've been brought up to nothing, and have no aptitude60 or gift of any kind. Under those circumstances what is a man to do? That is a question, Mr. Hendry, which, if I've put to myself once, I have a hundred times. At length I have decided61 that there are only two things I can do with any degree of credit to myself or others, and those are, riding and driving. But where's the good of either of them to a fellow who has neither a horse nor a trap to call his own?"
"Don't know, I'm sure, Mr. Brabazon, unless he makes use of the horses and traps of his friends. And a good many young men do that, sir, who are in the same predicament as yourself."
"True for you, Mr. Hendry, but I've no inclination62 to add one more to their number. No, sir, what I've decided upon doing is to try to earn my living as a hansom-cab driver, and I have come to you, Mr. Hendry, as a man whom I've known for a number of years, to ask you to give me a start; in other words, as our friend Joey would say, to 'put me on the job.'"
Hendry stared at him open-mouthed for a second or two. Then he said: "You don't seriously mean what you say, Mr. Brabazon?"
"Most seriously I do. I was never more in earnest in my life."
"Well, sir, you're not the first broken-down swell63--if you'll excuse the term--that I've known take to driving a hansom for a living, but they have mostly been of a different quality from you. Still, needs must when a certain person drives. I don't suppose starving's any pleasanter to a man that's had a college education, than to one who can neither read nor write. If you like to look me up at eleven to-morrow forenoon, Mr. Brabazon, I may have something to say to you."
Burgo did not fail to keep the appointment, and the result was that on the following Monday morning, having in the interim taken out a license64 in due form at Scotland Yard, he started in his new career. It appeared that Mr. Hendry had just become the owner of a hansom which had been the property of a medical man. It was what the jobmaster himself termed "a real elegant turn-out," and he was only too pleased to have secured such a man as Mr. Brabazon to drive it. Into its shafts65 he put a half-blood mare66, which he had bought a bargain, because she had once come down on her knees when her former owner, a very nervous old gentleman, was taking his constitutional in the Park. By this time Burgo had vacated his rooms off New Bond Street for a much more unpretentious domicile no great distance from Mr. Hendry's yard. He had written Mr. Garden a half-cynical, half-humorous note, telling him what he had decided upon doing, and advising him of his changed address. He had also looked up Benny Hines, partly for the same purpose, and partly to ascertain67 whether the old man had anything fresh to communicate with reference to Sir Everard. But it appeared that affairs in Great Mornington Street were going on much as they had for the last two months. If it could not be averred68 that the baronet was any worse in health, there seemed to be no visible signs of improvement. Dr. Hoskins continued to call three or four times a week, and his patient still went for a drive on most fine afternoons. But with a man of the baronet's years such a state of things could not go on much longer. If there was no improvement, it seemed inevitable69 that he must gradually, although it might be almost imperceptibly, become weaker. That they saw no company at No. 22, and went nowhere, was sufficiently accounted for by the state of Sir Everard's health.
And now for Burgo began a new life indeed, one which, as he presently found, tended to expand his ideas in directions never thought of before, and to alter his views of many things in a quite remarkable70 way. The "passing show," as seen from the perch of a hansom, wore for him an aspect very different from that which it had assumed when looked at from the box-seat of Lord Ockbrook's drag. It seemed to have undergone a quite kaleidoscopic71 transformation72 between whiles. But, as he told himself, what he saw now was the real thing--was the great throbbing73 pulse of London, with some at least of its complex workings and amazing contrasts laid bare for his inspection74; while here and there he obtained glimpses of its multifarious undercurrents of joy, hope, fear, misery75, and despair, and of a poverty so extreme that it grinds the life out of some of its victims, while transforming others into the semblance76 of brute77 beasts. To live for six months the life of a London "cabby" is, for a man with eyes to see and a mind susceptible78 of receiving and retaining impressions, an education of itself--but what an education!
Various reports were current in those clubs of which Mr. Brabazon had been a member, as to the cause of his sudden disappearance79, for, so far as was known, he had gone without saying a word to anybody. Although somewhat reserved and stand-offish except with a chosen few, he had been by no means unpopular; but none, even among his most intimate friends, was in a position to furnish any authentic80 tidings of his whereabouts, or to account definitely for his continued absence. Some had it (for with your club gossip fact and invention very often go hand in hand) that he had gone on an exploring expedition among the wilds either of Africa or Asia, they were not sure which. Others averred that he had got so deeply into debt, by no means for the first time, as to have offended his uncle beyond forgiveness, and that, as a consequence, he had been expatriated, with the understanding that his allowance would cease the moment he should set foot on English soil without leave being given him to do so. Nor were these the only fables81 promulgated82 which found a more or less ready credence83 in this or the other smoking-room. But when, on different occasions, two men came forward and averred that they had seen Burgo Brabazon driving a swell hansom for hire in the West End, their statements were received either with polite incredulity or unconcealed derision. Of course the explanation was simple enough. It was merely one case the more of mistaken identity.
The only change in his appearance made by Burgo, except that he had taken into regular wear his very oldest suit of tweeds, was that he had shaved off his moustache, and had begun to cultivate an inch of side whisker. But this, to an ordinary club acquaintance, or any one who had not been on intimate terms with him, was enough to alter his aspect almost beyond casual recognition. Then, his face had sunken somewhat of late, thereby bringing his cheek bones into greater prominence84; and because his features were thinner, they looked longer and older. That several of his whilom acquaintances should see him without recognising him was scarcely to be wondered at. Indeed, more than one of them had engaged his cab, and been driven by him to wherever they had wanted to go, and had paid him at the end of the journey, without having the slightest suspicion as to the driver's personality. But on such occasions Burgo always spoke12 in a feigned85 voice, and had a trick, which he had picked up when a boy, of treating his fare to a very pronounced squint86 of his left eye.
But, as a rule, he saw old acquaintances without seeing them. He neither turned away his face, nor let his eyes rest on them. To him they were as the most absolute strangers--people on whom he had never set eyes before, and, for anything he knew or cared, might never do so again.
There came an afternoon when, in a temporary jam of vehicles, just outside the Marble Arch, Burgo, perched aloft on his cab, found himself close to Mrs. Mordaunt's barouche. For a couple of minutes or more there was no possibility of turning a wheel. Seated with her back to the horses, and facing her aunt and another lady, was Clara Leslie. Her eyes and Burgo's met. She gave a little start, bit her lip, and then bent87 forward as if to assure herself that it was really he. A second look convinced her. He sat as if carved out of stone, his features as devoid88 of expression as those of some old Egyptian deity89. But however changed he might be in other ways, she knew him by his eyes. For her there were no such eyes in the world. Her own seemed to dilate90 as she looked, while every trace of colour fled her face. Busy discussing the latest morsel91 of scandal, neither Mrs. Mordaunt nor her friend saw anything. Then the crowd parted as if by magic--the magic brought to bear by the police on duty--and Burgo's mare, obedient to its driver's signal, dashed forward. The same instant there was a little cry from Mrs. Mordaunt. Miss Leslie had fainted.
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