Ian Hay

Name: Paid In Full — Chapter 10
Author: Ian Hay

Paid In Full — Chapter 10 (1925)

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“Paid In Full — Chapter 10”, published in 1925, is a work by Ian Hay. It explores elements such as Conway, Moon and Winter.

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 10 (1925)

“ Conway smiled indulgently.
‘It’s all a question of point of view,’ he said. ‘I like you, Colonel, and I will be quite frank with you. Let me ask you a plain question. Aren't some people fair game?’
‘Not for a British officer and gentleman.’
‘That’s a damned good answer, Colonel; but it doesn’t go. I’m not an officer—I suppose I was cashiered months ago—and I have long perceived from your manner towards me that you don’t consider me a gentleman. So that’s that! Anyhow, can you blame me for trying to make a bit when I get the chance?’
Tom Winter was genuinely interested—and attracted. ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 10 (1925)

“ Carnegie Hall is the biggest job I’ve tackled yet. Sit down and have a drink. This is Mr. Moon, my manager.’
Colonel Winter surveyed the flinching Moon dispassionately.
‘British subject?’ he inquired.
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Old Soldier?’
‘Oh, yes, sir.’ This was not true, but with Mr. Moon the soft answer was the right answer.
Winter nodded. ‘I see.’ He turned to Conway. ‘Can you spare me five minutes?’
‘Certainly. Moon, go and wait for the chairman. Whiskey and soda, Colonel?’
‘No, thank you.’ Winter sat down by the table. At his elbow lay the discarded Crimea Medal. ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 10 (1925)

“ Do you want to make them all feel damned fools—the laughing-stock of the other crowd, the crowd who tried to dine and wine us and got frozen out? Haven’t you any consideration for them? And haven’t you any thought for the general consequences? Don’t you see that, by hunting down an unfortunate devil like me at a moment like this when everything in the Anglo-American garden is lovely, you are going to set back the entente cordiale six months? Think, man—think!’ He gazed feverishly into Winter's face. ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 10 (1925)

“ Don't you see you can't do it?’ His voice rose to a higher note.
‘Why not?’
‘Do you realise,’ continued Conway, pointing, ‘that in the hall through there three or four thousand people are waiting to hear me lecture? If you arrest me now, what are you going to say to them? Are you going to cry stinking fish? Are you going to tell them that there will be no show to-night, because they’ve been played for a crowd of suckers by a crook—a British crook—a British officer-crook? Do you want the benches torn up?? ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 10 (1925)

“ Winter shook his head.
‘The bargain is too much in your favour, Mr. Cradock,’ he said.
His retort had an unexpected effect. Without a word, Conway dropped into a chair and fell forward on to the table, with his face on his arms. Deep, shuddering sobs broke from him.
‘My favour?’ he sobbed. ‘My God! My favour?’ He lifted a white, glistening face. ‘Do you know what I’m offering to give up? I have been a wanderer over the face of the earth for most of my life, penniless and friendless ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 10 (1925)

“ Moon tapped at the door of the Artistes’ Parlour behind the spacious platform of Carnegie Hall, New York City, and entered deferentially. Mr. Moon had had cause to be deferential to a good many people in the course of his life, because, to employ a useful American idiom, a good many people had ‘got something on’ Mr. Moon. To Dale Conway he paid the highest deference of all. ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 10 (1925)

“ Moon laid upon the table certain British war decorations. Conway, in immaculate civilian evening dress, examined them.
‘H’m! South-Africa–King's Medal. I am more or less entitled to that, though I never collected it. Crimean Medal. No, I think not: it looks all right from a distance, but I shall be at close quarters with various wise guys to-night. The Victorian Order—Fourth Class, I should say. That’s always safe. ”

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Ian Hay, Paid In Full — Chapter 10 (1925)

“ Presently he spoke again.
‘I am not disposed to question your right to go to the devil in your own way—in peace-time. But don’t you think the fact that we are at war makes just a bit of difference, Mr. ”

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