[The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookThe Light That Failed CHAPTER III 10/29
I'll jostle you later on.' Good clothes and boots are not cheap, and Dick left his last shop with the certainty that he would be respectably arrayed for a time, but with only fifty shillings in his pocket.
He returned to streets by the Docks, and lodged himself in one room, where the sheets on the bed were almost audibly marked in case of theft, and where nobody seemed to go to bed at all.
When his clothes arrived he sought the Central Southern Syndicate for Torpenhow's address, and got it, with the intimation that there was still some money waiting for him. 'How much ?' said Dick, as one who habitually dealt in millions. 'Between thirty and forty pounds.
If it would be any convenience to you, of course we could let you have it at once; but we usually settle accounts monthly.' 'If I show that I want anything now, I'm lost,' he said to himself.
'All I need I'll take later on.' Then, aloud, 'It's hardly worth while; and I'm going to the country for a month, too.
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