The Fortunes of Glencore

Something like a malediction arose to the Corporal's lips; but restraining it, and with a voice thick from passion, he said,--

"I 'm ready to pay you--to pay you ten times over the worth of your--"

"You need n't curse the horse, anyhow," interposed Rabbitskin, while with a significant glance at his friends around him, he slyly intimated that it would be as well to adjourn the debate,--a motion as quickly obeyed as it was mooted; for in less than five minutes Craggs was standing beside the quay, with no other companion than a blind beggar-woman, who, perfectly regardless of his distress, continued energetically to draw att