The Dugdale Millions — page 79: what you’re looking at

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DISQUIETING NEWS 69 thought Mr. Hetlow ought to give serious thought to?’’ ‘**Wallis,’’ said Dick, after a moment’s silence, ‘‘do you know that I feel in my bones that I won’t like that real—live—young—saphead of an English noble- man.”’ ‘*T shall just hate him.’’ **I never did like English noblemen. It is one of the peculiarities of my nature that I hate an English nobleman whenever I meet one.’’ ““How many have you ever met?’”’ **Not one. That, however, does not alter the fact. Wallis, I’ll defeat that Lord What’'s-his-name, if I involve the two countries in a war.’”’ ‘*And I'll make his life miserable while he’s here.” Dick put out his hand to Wallis. “It is a compact then—for blood and war—for life and death. Wallis, there is an easy way to crush birn.”’ uo, ” ‘‘Find the missing Dugdale. Then your Lord won't want Miss Hetlow.”’ ‘‘An additional incentive for your work. But we must go back for dinner.’’ As lightly as Dick had treated the news of the com- ing of Merrimount, for it was his habit to conceal his real emotions under the guise of a humorous triviality, he was much troubled. With Wallis, he believed that the only object of the young nobleman’s visit was to secure the Dugdale millions by securing Bessie. He thought he knew Mr. Hetlow well enough to know that the old merchant would be so flattered by the prospect of an alliance with a family of such high rank in the mother country, that, from the moment of his arrival, the young Englishman would have a potent and efficient ally in the father of the girl he would come to woo. So, though he laughed and joked with the others at the dinner-table over the purpose of the COMNMUC LDOO S ( (