20/29 But Mr Fisker won nearly all that was lost. He was to start for Liverpool by train at 8.30 a.m., and at 6 a.m., he counted up his bits of paper and found himself the winner of about L600. 'I think that most of them came from you, Sir Felix,' he said,--handing the bundle across the table. 'That's Longestaffe,' said Felix, 'and I'll change that of course.' Then out of his pocket-book he extracted other minute documents bearing that M.G.which was so little esteemed among them,-- and so made up the sum. 'You seem to have L150 from Grasslough, L145 from Nidderdale, and L322 10s from Grendall,' said the baronet. |