When the lion is on short commons, the jackal is generally in a very bad way. If Mr. D'Ossay Butler was hard up, the condition of tall-hatted Mr. Griffiths was necessarily frightful12. That worthy13 member of society was financially at the lowest ebb14, and had resorted to a trade which he reserved for the depths of despair, a mild cardsharping--a "three, two, and vun" game, in which it was an impossibility for the bystander to point out the exact position of the king--at low public-houses. During all his wanderings, however, he kept his eyes open to the necessity of obeying his instructions from D'Ossay Butler, to the necessity of discovering the whereabouts of Lizzy Ponsford, the holder of the bill. There was no slum that he visited; no public-house, where he first propitiated15 the landlord by the purchase of half-a-pint of ale, and then proceeded to suggest to the notice of the two or three sawney-looking men at the bar a "curous little game he had there, at which 'atfuls of money had been von, and which was the favourite recreation of the horficers of the Queen's Life-Guards at the Windsor Barracks, where he'd 'ad the pleasure of introducin' it 'imself;" no pedestrian ground, no penny-gaff, where he did not get into conversation with somebody connected with the premises16, and try to worm out that all-important secret. But all was of no avail. Many of the persons he spoke17 to knew or had heard of Tony Butler, and paid many handsome compliments to the deceased--"a vide-avake vun and no mistake," "a feller as vould take your coat off your back on to his own," &c.; but very few had known Lizzie Ponsford, and those had not seen or heard of her for a considerable time.
So Mr. Griffiths began to keep clear of Mr. Effingham. There was nothing to be got from his employer but abuse, and that was an article of which Mr. Griffiths perhaps had a surfeit18, especially after he had picked up a few stray eighteenpences from the frequenters of the Pig and Whistle, at the noble game of the "three, two, and vun." But one night, finding himself in the neighbourhood of the Strand19, and having had rather a successful evening,--he had won fifteen shillings from a sailor, at a public-house in Thames Street; a sailor who paid him rigidly20, and then cursed him for an adjective swab and kicked him into the street,--Mr. Griffiths thought he would take a little refreshment21 at Johnson's. On presenting the crown of his hat within the swing-doors, that article was immediately recognized by Mr. Effingham, seated moodily23 in the nearest box, and its owner hailed in the nearest approach to a voice of thunder which that small gentleman could accomplish.
"Come in; I see you!" called out the little man. "I've been wondering what had become of you all this time. I thought you'd gone to stay with some swell24 in the country for the hunting-season. I was goin' to ask if they had got your address at the Morning-Post office, that I might write you a line and see if you could find it convenient to lend me a trifle."
"You must be in luck to have such spirits, D'Ossay,--you must," said Mr. Griffiths sententiously. "Out of collar and out at elbows--that's what I've been out of. Look at my coat," pointing to his arms; "shining like bees-wax. Look at my crabshells," pointing to his boots; "as leaky as an old punt, reg'larly wore down to the sewin', and all through elberin' and cadgin' my way into every crib where I thought there was a chance of my comin' at what we wanted to know."
"No good,--not a scrap. I suppose you've been at the same game? How have you got on?"
"Well, I'll tell you what I intend to do. I've worked high and low, here and there, like a blessed black slave, to find out where this gal27 is, and I've had no luck no more than you have. And I intend to cut it. I'm sick of all this dodgin' and divin', and askin' everybody after somebody that nobody knows. I intend to cut it. That's what I intend!"
"And let it go altogether, after all the trouble we've had; after-- Not such a flat, Griffiths; don't you fear. Look here, my boy," said Mr. Butler, putting his hand into his waistcoat-pocket, and producing therefrom two sovereigns; "do you see that couple of quid? That, with a shilling and a fourpenny bit, is all that remains28 to your friend D'Ossay of the current coin of this realm--the real business, I mean, and no fakement. But these two simple skivs shall be turned into fifty or a hundred before the end of the week. And to show you that I'm not boasting, I'll stand a drink. Here, waiter!--brandy hot, two!"
Mr. Griffiths gazed in double admiration29 at his friend's generosity30 and pluck; but low as he was, he really admired the latter, from which he might possibly derive31 ultimate benefit, more than the former, from which he was about to receive immediate22 advantage. After the first sip32 of his grog he said--
"And how's it coming off?"
"I don't mind telling you," said D'Ossay. "There's nothing to hide--why should there be? I'm going to try it on again with our friend the Bart."
"Without the bill?"
"Of course, without the bill, considering that neither you nor I have been able to get hold of it. But didn't I raise a fiftier out of him without the bill before, and why shouldn't I do that, or double that, now?"
"Ah, why indeed?" said Mr. Griffiths, who always coincided when he did not know what else to do, and there was nothing to lose by so doing.
"You see, I thought he might down upon me with the extortion dodge34, and hand me over to a bobby. But there's no bobbies where he is now; he couldn't ring the bell and send out that sleek-looking vally, and have me in Vine Street in a brace35 of shakes. He's down in the country ever so far away. I called at Eaton Place to-day, and they gave me his address."
"And how do you mean to get at him? Not by writin'? Don't trust your fist on paper."
"Teach your grandmother, Griffiths! How do I mean to get at him? Why, by paying one of those yellow-boys to a booking-clerk at 6.30 to-morrow morning, and going down by the Great-Western parliamentary to Torquay, which is close by the swell's place."
"And then?"
"Then I shall put up at some quiet crib, and go over the next morning and take him on the bounce--just as I did before."
"And suppose he shows fight and won't part?"
"Then I must send up a line to you, and you must get up a friendly lead, or something of that kind, and work me back to town."
"And you'll chance all that?"
"I'd chance a mile more than that for such stakes, where there's no knockin' about or head-punchin' business, Griffiths. I've not got what they call animal courage, which means I don't like being hurt. Some people do, I suppose, and they have animal courage. Now, let's settle where I'm to write to you, and all the rest of the business."
Mr. Effingham spoke thus cheerily, and seemed thoroughly36 determined37 on his undertaking38 and confident of his success, as he sat, late at night, in a warm brilliantly-lit tavern-parlour, with the odours of tobacco and hot spirituous drinks fragrant39 to him floating pleasantly about. He took quite another view of the subject when he turned out between five and six the next morning into a bald blank street, swept by torrents40 of rain, in which no one was visible but the policeman and the few vagrants41 huddling42 round the early-breakfast stall at the corner. Mr. Effingham wrapped himself up as best he might in his fifteen-shilling pea-jacket, and under cover of a big gingham umbrella, borrowed from his landlady43, made the best fight he could against the wind and the rain, which, however, had so far the best of it that he was tolerably damp by the time he reached the Paddington station.
He took his ticket, and seated himself on the shelf in one of those wooden boxes which benevolent44 railway directors set aside for the conveyance45 of parliamentarians. His companions were two navvies, who had not slept off the effects of last night's drunkenness, and whose language made Mr. Effingham--albeit not unused to listening to "tall talk"--shrink with disgust; an old woman with steaming black garments, and an umbrella which would not stand up in any corner and would not lie under the seat, and got itself called most opprobrious46 names for its persistence47 in leaning against the nearest navvy; and a young woman with a swollen48 face tied up in a check cotton handkerchief. Mr. Effingham made an effort to let the very small window on his side down, but the young woman with the toothache had it up in an instant; while the aperture49 on the other side was constantly stuffed with the body of one or other of the drunken navvies, who fought for the privilege of leaning half out of the carriage, and running the chance of being knocked to pieces against arches and tunnel-walls. So the navvies fought and swore, and the old woman sniffed50 and took little snatches of sleep, waking with a prolonged snort and start; and the young woman moaned and rubbed her face, until Mr. Effingham was nearly mad. Circumstances were almost too much for him; he grew first desponding, and then desperate. He wished he had never started on his journey; he would get out at the next station at which the train stopped (and as the parliamentary duly stopped at every station, he would not have had to wait long); he would go back to London. No, he would not do that; he had boasted about his intention to Griffiths, and would lose all authority over that satellite if he did not show at least the semblance51 of a fulfilment of his purpose. He would get out at the next station, and wait at a public-house in the village until the next day, and then go back and tell Griffiths he had seen Sir Charles Mitford, and had found it impossible to get any money out of him. And then, just as the whistle shrieked52 out and the engine reduced its particularly slow pace to a slower still, preparatory to pulling up, Mr. Effingham's hands strayed into his waistcoat-pocket, where he found only a half-sovereign and a few shillings remaining--the extent of his earthly possessions. That decided53 him; he would go on, come what might! Such a state of impecuniosity54 nerved him to anything; and--the absence of policemen in rural districts still pleasantly remembered--he determined upon pursuing his original idea and of continuing his journey.
The next day Sir Charles Mitford, who had been compelled to devote the morning to dry details of business connected with his estate--details to which he listened conscientiously55, over which he shook his head visibly, and which he did not in the least understand--had got rid of the man of business from the library about noon, and was just thinking he would go and see what Mrs. Hammond was doing, when Banks entered, and closing the door after him in a secret and mysterious manner, announced "That party, sir."
"What 'party,' Banks?"
"The party that called in Heaton Place, Sir Charles, and ast to see you, and you wouldn't see at first, but did afterwards, Sir Charles."
"I don't know yet whom you mean, Banks."
"The naval56 party, Sir Charles; though lookin' more like after the coats and humbrellas in the 'all. The naval party as served with you on board some ship, Sir Charles."
"Oh," said Mitford hurriedly, "I recollect57 now; one of--one of my sailors from my old yacht--yes, yes, of course. You can show him into my own room, Banks. I'll go up there at once."
"'Sailor,'" said Mr. Banks to himself as he walked down the passage, "'from my hold yacht,' did he say? Why, if what they say at the Club is right, the honly naval concern which he knew of before comin' in for the title was the Fleet Pris'n! This is a queer start about this feller, this is. I wonder why he wants to see Mitford, and why Mitford can't refuse hisself to him?--This way, young man." And he beckoned58 haughtily59 to Mr. Effingham, and preceded him to his master's room. Sir Charles had already arrived there, and was seated in his large armchair when the visitor was shown in.
Ah, what a different visitor from the Mr. Effingham who called in Eaton Place! Then full of vulgar confidence and brazen60 audacity61; now, flinching62, slouching, cowardly. His dress bedraggled from the previous day's wretched journey, his manner downcast from the preconceived notion of failure in his mission, and the impossibility of enforcing his previous demands. A very wretched specimen63 of humanity was Mr. Effingham as he stood before Sir Charles Mitford, shifting his limp hat from hand to hand, and waiting to be asked to sit down.
When Banks had retired64 and closed the door, Sir Charles looked up quietly and steadily65 at his visitor, and said, "Well, Mr.--I forget your name--you've broken your promise, as I expected, and come to try and extort33 money from me again!"
"Extort, Sir Charles! that's not the word, sir; I--"
"That is the word, sir! Sheer barefaced66 robbery and extortion--that's what has brought you down here; deny it if you can! Have you come to ask me for money, or have you not?"
"Well, Sir Charles, I--that is--"
"Well, suppose I have?"
"Suppose you have! And suppose that I, as a justice of the peace and magistrate69 for the county, make out a warrant for your committal to prison as a rogue70 and vagabond? We're a long way from London, and justice's law is to be had down in these parts. Besides, how could you appeal? to whom could you refer? I've made a point of having a few inquiries71 made about you since you last did me the honour of a call, and I find that if not a regular gaol-bird, you could at all events be recognized by the police as a swindler and an utterer of base coin. What do you think of that Mr.--Butler?"
What did he think of it? The realization72 of his worst fears, the overthrow73 of his strongest hopes! He ought to have relied on the presentiment74 which had told him that the man would take this course, though not so promptly75 or so strongly. He thought he would try one more bit of bounce, and he shook himself together and put as much impudence76 as he could command into his look as he said,
"How do you know I've not got that forged bill in my pocket?"
"By your face, sir! I can see that as plainly as if it were written there in big black letters! Ah, I knew I was right! Now, what have you got to say to this, Mr. Butler?"
Mr. Effingham fairly collapsed77. "Nothing, Sir Charles," he stammered78. "I've nothing to say-only have mercy, Sir Charles! I have not brought the bill with me, but I know where it is, and could lay my hand on it at any time, Sir Charles. And as to what you said about committing me as a rogue and a vagabond, O Lord! don't do it, Sir Charles! pray don't! I'm a poor miserable79 devil without a rap; but if you'll only let me go, I'll find my way back to town, and never intrude80 on you again, Sir Charles; I--"
All this time Mr. Effingham had been backing, and with his hand behind him feeling for the handle of the door. Having secured it, he was about to vanish, when Sir Charles called out to him "Stop!" and he stopped at once.
"You say you're hard-up, Mr. Butler?"
"Then you'd be glad to earn a little money?"
"If I could do so--" Mr. Effingham was about to say "honestly," but he thought this would be a little too glaring, so he finished his sentence by substituting "without incurring83 any danger, I should be delighted."
"There would not be the slightest danger--"
"By danger I mean, punching of heads and that kind of thing."
"Precisely84; there would be nothing of that. The only person with whom you would be brought into contact would be a woman."
Mr. Effingham's barometrical85 mercury rose as quickly as it fell. "A woman!" he said, as he settled his limp collar and gave a pull at his dirty wristbands,--"a woman, Sir Charles! Oh, then, I've no fear."
"Wait and hear what you're required to do, sir, before you give an opinion. The person to whom I allude86 is at the present moment in this house. She is therefore, although not invited by me, to a certain extent my guest, and it would be impossible for me to appear in the matter. You comprehend me?"
"Especially as she is to be got rid of at once and for ever. When I say 'got rid of,' I don't mean it in the slang phrase of the penny romances--I don't mean that the woman is to be killed; but simply that she is to be told that she must remain here no longer, and the danger of doing so must be strongly pointed88 out to her."
"Exactly, je twig89! Now will you please to tell me the name of this good lady, and what reason I'm to give for insisting on her leaving such a very swell and pleasant crib as this appears to be?"
"She is called here Miss Gillespie," said Sir Charles; "but You will have heard of her under a very different name--Lizzie Ponsford."
"What!" exclaimed Mr. Effingham, leaping from his chair; "Lizzie Ponsford here! She whom I've been--"
"Well, sir?" asked Sir Charles in astonishment90.
"Whom I've been hearing so much about!" said Mr. Effingham, recovering himself. "Lizzie Ponsford here!" he continued, going off again. "Well, that is a rum start!"
"Be good enough to attend to me, sir. She is here, and she is in my way. Her presence worries me, bringing back all sorts of hideous91 associations that I thought I had got rid of, and never want to have revived. You must see her, talk to her, and get her to go at once; once gone, I could so arrange matters as to leave little chance of her returning."
"I see!" said Mr. Effingham. "Now the question is, how to work her out of this. What would be the best way to frighten her and get her under your thumb?"
"What is your notion on that point?"
"I scarcely know yet! It will want a little thinking over, but I've no doubt I shall be able to hit upon something. Is she pretty comfortable where she is--likely not to give it up without a struggle?"
"You may take your oath she will not move unless compelled--it is for you to find the something that will compel her."
"Exactly. Well, I don't think that there will be much difficulty about that--at least," said he, correcting himself, for he feared that comparative facility might lessen92 the reward--"at least, not much difficulty for a man whose head's screwed on the right way. Now about the payment?"
Sir Charles opened a drawer in his desk, and from a little rouleau of gold counted out ten sovereigns. The chink of the money sounded deliciously in Mr. Effingham's hungry ears.
"I will give you these ten sovereigns now," said Sir Charles; "and if you succeed in carrying out all I have told you, I will give you fifty more."
"Will you? Well, I always say what I think, and I say that's liberal. Now look here! Very likely I shan't see you again; perhaps I shall have to step it with her, in order to be sure she's safe off, and not dodging93, or likely to walk back again. So when you find she's really gone, just you send a cheque for the fifty, made payable94 to bearer, mind, and not crossed, to this address;" and bending down over the table he took a pen and scrap of paper and wrote: Mr. Effingham, Mr. Johnson's, The Brown Bear, Shakespeare Street, Strand, London. "Will you do that?"
"I will."
"Having said so as an honourable95 gent, I know you'll keep your word. Now how am I to see her?"
"She walks out every day at three o'clock with her pupil--"
"Her pupil! Lizzie Ponsford's pupil! My eye!"
"With her pupil," repeated Sir Charles sternly, "in the chestnut96 avenue leading from the lodge97-gate. A tall woman with very large eyes, and crisp wavy98 °hair over her forehead; a peculiar-looking woman--you couldn't mistake her."
"All right! As I go out of the lodge-gate now, I'll just say a few words to the old lady that keeps it, that she may know me again--don't you see?--and not be surprised at my coming in and out. And now, as I shall probably have to hang about here for two or three days, where can I put up?"
"You mustn't remain here in the house--"
"Lor' bless you, that would never do! isn't there a public near?"
"There is the Mitford Arms, within a quarter of a mile of the lodge."
"I saw it; the carrier's-cart which brought me over from Torquay stopped there. That'll do. I'll be a littery gent gettin' up information about the old county families, or an artist sketchin'--that'll do. Now give me a week clear: if nothing's done by then, you'll have spent ten pound very badly, and I shall have lost my time. But if within that time--and it might be to-morrow or any day--you find she's clean gone, you've got the address, and you'll send the cheque to it?"
"You may rely on me."
"I do thoroughly. Now how am I to get out? It wouldn't do for you to be seen with me--my togs, though just the sort of thing for the littery gent, ain't very swell."
"You can go down this staircase," said Sir Charles, leading him to a landing; "it guides on to the garden, take the first to the right, and you'll come at last to the avenue."
Mr. Effingham put his finger to the limp brim of his hat and departed.
But when he arrived in the chestnut avenue, and had looked carefully round, and found that he was out of sight of any one in the house, and that there was no one near enough to observe his conduct, he rubbed his hands together, and almost cut a caper99 in the air with delight.
"To think of it!" he said. "There never, never was such luck! D'Ossay, my boy, you've got the trick of it somehow. What will Griffiths say now? To think that I've been hunting for this woman all this time, and that she's now placed in my hands--and by this very swell too! Two birds with one stone now. Oh, there's a much bigger game than the Bart.'s cheque for fifty! But it'll take a deal of thinking over and planning; and if there's any one to do that, it's you, D'Ossay, my boy, and no one else!"
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