Name: Bones in London — CHAPTER XI. A STUDENT OF MEN
Author: Edgar Wallace

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Edgar Wallace, Bones in London — CHAPTER XI. A STUDENT OF MEN (1921)

“ If a girl cannot go to lunch with her cousin——"
Bones jumped up from his chair, shrugged his shoulders rapidly, and forced a hideous grin.
"What does it matter to me, dear old Ham?" he asked. "Don't think I'm worried about a little thing like a typewriter going out to lunch. Pooh! Absurd! Tommy rot! No, my partner, I don't mind—in fact, I don't care a——"
"Jot," said Hamilton, with the gesture of an outraged bishop.
"Of course not," said Bones wildly. "What does it matter to me? Delighted that young typewriter should have a cousin, and all that sort of thing!" ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones in London — CHAPTER XI. A STUDENT OF MEN (1921)

“ It's not right, dear old thing. It's not manly, dear old sport. What the devil did her father have a sister for? I never knew anything about it."
"They ought to have told you," said Hamilton sympathetically. "Now come and have some food."
But Bones refused. He was adamant. He would sit there and starve. He did not say as much, but he hinted that, when Hamilton returned, his famished and lifeless form would be found lying limply across the desk. Hamilton went out to lunch alone, hurried through his meal, and came back to find Bones alive but unhappy. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones in London — CHAPTER XI. A STUDENT OF MEN (1921)

“ The prospects were so splendid that I went to a financier who is a friend of mine, and he undertook to provide the money, on which, of course, I agreed to pay an interest. The whole future, which had been so black, suddenly became as bright as day. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones in London — CHAPTER XI. A STUDENT OF MEN (1921)

“ Jackson Hyane. "There's plenty of money in Town, but it's absolutely impossible to get at it. I haven't touched a mug for two months, and I've backed more seconds than I care to think about. Still," he mused, "there's a chance."
His friends nodded. In their circle there was always "a chance," but he could not guess that that chance which the student of men, Mr. Jackson Hyane, was banking upon answered indifferently to the name of Tibbetts or Bones.
At half-past eight that night he saw his cousin off from King's Cross. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones in London — CHAPTER XI. A STUDENT OF MEN (1921)

“ Hyane. "I realise that you are a very busy man."
Bones said nothing, and when Marguerite Whitland appeared, he had gained sufficient control of his emotions to indulge in a feeble jest. The girl's face was a study at the sight of her cousin. Hamilton, a disinterested observer, read astonishment, annoyance, and resignation in the wide-opened eyes. Bones, who prided himself upon a working knowledge of physiognomy, diagnosed the same symptoms as conveying a deep admiration combined with the re-awakening of a youthful love. ”

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Edgar Wallace, Bones in London — CHAPTER XI. A STUDENT OF MEN (1921)

“ Hyane. Anything that made her happy, old Mr. Hyane, would make me happy. You see?"
"I see," said Mr. Hyane, and he had the satisfaction of knowing that he, a student of men, had not misread his victim.
"Fourteen thousand pounds," said Bones, turning abruptly to the desk and seizing his pen. "Make it payable to you?"
"You're too kind," murmured Hyane. "Make it an open cheque, Mr. Tibbetts—I have to pay the agents in cash. These Indian merchants are so suspicious." ”

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