Henry Milner Rideout

Name: The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2
Author: Henry Milner Rideout

The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2 (1907)

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“The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2”, published in 1907, is a work by Henry Milner Rideout. It explores elements such as Borkman, Scarlett and Siamese.

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2 (1907)

“ Their burly guide, scattering ducks, pariah dogs, and black sows, dived under a monstrous Chinese lantern, and led the party into the dusk and disorder of a pawnshop. On his platform beside a tall glass case of silver ware, a young Chinaman, naked to the waist, sat braiding pink threads into his queue. He stared at the ladies, and coiled the half-finished strand about his neck.
Borkman presented a hieroglyphic letter, which the pawnbroker read slowly through horn-rimmed spectacles, whispering to himself, and spacing off groups of characters with a long blue thumb-nail. ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2 (1907)

“ Scarlett is afraid, I'll buy him on my own responsibility, and you can get him from me whenever you like, Miss Holborow."
He had drawn himself up tall, a bearded protector of ladies.
"He's the boy to carry cats," whispered Laura to Owen, behind Aunt Julia's back. Borkman caught the buzz of the whisper, and for a second his eye gleamed with an odd suspicion. Then he repeated, amiably—"It's quite safe."
"The whole affair is absurd," said Aunt Julia. "We have too much stuff already. A cat is a—a beast." ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2 (1907)

“ Borkman, clothed in white, resplendent with gold tical buttons, sat down and grinned across the white-painted disc of the little tin table.
"Looking for you all over, Mr. Scarlett," he said. "Nice hotel this—I'm staying at a livelier place, though, myself, if you understand me. Go up to their house every morning and report. Good fun! Got a chit here that ought to please you!—O Boy, dua stengah, Scotch and Tansan. Where the mischief is the thing?"
He fumbled through many pockets, his deep-set eyes beaming kindly. "Miracle what rubbish a man stows away in his poche. ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2 (1907)

“ Scarlett warned her. "Don't admire. Let me do the bargaining; may I?"
"The big fellow is the only one to buy, sir," Borkman advised. Before the ladies, his manner seemed unnaturally subdued, his genius rebuked. "Don't buy the little ones, Mr. Scarlett, that's all. The big chap would fetch fifty to a hundred pounds in London, as he stands."
"But the two small ones are blue," said Mrs. Holborow, forgetting her general objection in a particular. "And the King has officially declared that blue cats are...." ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2 (1907)

“ Had it not been too much work, he would have formed moral reflections on woman's judgment of character. Instead, he puzzled once more over the situation: "A man covered with gold tics and diamond watch-strap buckles is not of the courier type. What's his game?"
He found no answer; and Borkman, when he reappeared later, stalking large in the river-garden, did not enlighten him. At the same moment wheels rattled in the road, and a victoria drew up at the verandah-end, with a flash of white through the sunny leafage.
It was she! it was also Aunt Julia: from one, a radiant, all-rewarding smile ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2 (1907)

“ Laura Holborrow. Can't you help us buy a Siamese cat this afternoon? We pick up the A. B. at your hotel, four o clock.
"You'll come?" said Borkman, who seemed to have grasped the situation completely. He gave the young man a benignant smile, and the faintest flutter of a wink,—at once impudent and paternal. "That's good. The ladies will be pleased, eh?" He rose with the air of one who ends an audience. ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2 (1907)

“ One tall Chinaman, who had looked feverishly intent, turned about tactfully to await the renewal of the bargain, presenting an oily brown back.
"Hallo," said Owen. "See that, Miss Holborow."
Between the muscular shoulder-blades, in Siamese fashion, was tattooed a circular design in blue.
"An old friend, isn't it?" continued Scarlett. "The symbol of Creation, the Dual Powers—two whales rolled together to form the world—as you see them on the Korean flag, the Madura praus, the Northern Pacific Railroad, and everywhere. He's not a Hoi-how boy."
The pawnbroker suddenly resumed the chaffering. ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2 (1907)

“ And so the bargain tossed and wavered, while the chuckling crowd muttered gibes. At last Scarlett changed his mongrel speech to English:
"Well," he said, "you can buy the big chap for forty ticals. He's an unusually good one—probably stolen. But before you close the bargain, I must tell you that it's a risk: they often die going Home, they're quarantined in London, and probably not even admitted by our delightful authorities in New York."
Laura's face clouded, but Borkman came to the rescue. ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2 (1907)

“ Beside them there bobbed up an umbrella of yellow paper, glossily varnished, from beneath which a pigtailed compradore in claret-coloured robes peered up at them with slant eyes and oily brown smile. The Captain turned on him viciously:
"And here's another squeeze! What do you want, eh? Money, money—good God, what a world! ”

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Henry Milner Rideout, The Siamese Cat — Chapter 2 (1907)

“ From a pocket-book he dumped a small heap of paper scraps on the table, and began sorting them. Two or three he read smiling, and tore up. "Drunk again, Giles Borkman," he commented, leniently, to his alter ego. At last, seizing a fresh white envelope, he pushed the remaining scraps aside. "There's her chit," he said. "No need of your writing. Just reply 'Yes' or 'No' by me—Here's fortune!"
"Fortune!" echoed Scarlett, happy and eager. He touched the glass to his lips, set it down, and opened the letter:
Dear Mr. ”

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