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his head. He was sorting buttons in the shop. Rewards and Fairies ‘Then Sister Haga came in for a paper of what we call “pilly ‘I cannot return to France with nothing better than the word buttons,” and that was the last I saw of Talleyrand in those of an unsophisticated savage,” he says. parts.’ ‘“Hasn’t the President said anything to you?” I asked him. ‘But after that you met Napoleon, didn’t you?’ said Una. ‘“He has said everything that one in his position ought to ‘Wait Just a little, dearie. After that, Toby and I went to Leba- say, but—but if only I had what he said to his Cabinet after non and the Reservation, and, being older and knowing bet- Genet rode off I believe I could change Europe—the world, ter how to manage him, I enjoyed myself well that summer maybe.” ‘“I’m sorry,” I says. “Maybe you’ll do that without with fiddling and fun. When we came back, the Brethren got my help.” after Toby because I wasn’t learning any lawful trade, and he ‘He looked at me hard. “Either you have unusual observa- had hard work to save me from being apprenticed to tion for one so young, or you choose to be insolent,” he says. Helmbold and Geyer the printers. ’Twould have ruined our ‘“It was intended for a compliment,” I says. “But no odds. music together, indeed it would. And when we escaped that, We’re off in a few days for our summer trip, and I’ve come to old Mattes Roush, the leather-breeches maker round the cor- make my good-byes.” ner, took a notion I was cut out for skin-dressing. But we ‘“I go on my travels too,” he says. “If ever we meet again were rescued. Along towards Christmas there comes a big you may be sure I will do my best to repay what I owe you.” sealed letter from the Bank saying that a Monsieur Talleyrand ‘“Without malice, Abbe, I hope,” I says. had put five hundred dollars—a hundred pounds—to my ‘“None whatever,” says he. “Give my respects to your ador- credit there to use as I pleased. There was a little note from able Dr Pangloss” (that was one of his side-names for Toby) him inside—he didn’t give any address—to thank me for past “and the Huron.” I never could teach him the difference be- kindnesses and my believing in his future, which he said was twixt Hurons and Senecas. pretty cloudy at the time of writing. I wished Toby to share 118
Rudyard Kipling the money. I hadn’t done more than bring Talleyrand up to and—Dad don’t read very quickly—Uncle used to slip over Hundred and Eighteen. The kindnesses were Toby’s. But Toby Newhaven way and tell Dad what was going on in the to- said, “No! Liberty and Independence for ever. I have all my bacco trade.’ wants, my son.” So I gave him a set of new fiddle-strings, and the Brethren didn’t advise us any more. Only Pastor Meder ‘I see— he preached about the deceitfulness of riches, and Brother Aurettes and Lees— Adam Goos said if there was war the English ‘ud surely shoot down the Bank. I knew there wasn’t going to be any war, but Like as two peas. I drew the money out and on Red Jacket’s advice I put it into Go on, Brother Square-toes,’ said Puck. Pharaoh laughed and horse-flesh, which I sold to Bob Bicknell for the Baltimore went on. stage-coaches. That way, I doubled my money inside the ‘Talleyrand he’d gone up in the world same as me. He’d twelvemonth.’ ‘You gipsy! You proper gipsy!’ Puck shouted. sailed to France again, and was a great man in the Govern- ‘Why not? ’Twas fair buying and selling. Well, one thing ment there awhile, but they had to turn him out on account leading to another, in a few years I had made the beginning of of some story about bribes from American shippers. All our a worldly fortune and was in the tobacco trade.’ poor emigres said he was surely finished this time, but Red ‘Ah!’ said Puck, suddenly. ‘Might I inquire if you’d ever Jacket and me we didn’t think it likely, not unless he was sent any news to your people in England—or in France?’ quite dead. Big Hand had made his peace treaty with Great ‘O’ course I had. I wrote regular every three months after Britain, just as he said he would, and there was a roaring trade I’d made money in the horse trade. We Lees don’t like com- ‘twixt England and the United States for such as ‘ud take the ing home empty-handed. If it’s only a turnip or an egg, it’s risk of being searched by British and French men-o’-war. Those something. Oh yes, I wrote good and plenty to Uncle Aurette, two was fighting, and just as his gentlemen told Big Hand 119
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Rudyard Kipling A year or so later,
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Cold Iron ‘Gold is for the mistre
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Gloriana WILLOW SHAW, the little fe
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King Henry VII and the Shipwrights
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MARKLAKE WITCHES The Way Through th
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