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218 the same lime, for reasons satisfactory to himself, to advance more money without Aske's direction and Aske lay helpless on the very shoal of outermost being, far below the restless tides of money or revenge.

"I don't know whatever has happened, Hodgson," he said to his overseer; "all that was right is wrong, and the change has come that sudden, there wasn't any chance to prepare for it Aske's illness knocks me up on one side, and Burley getting money on the other, for I'm sure Burley has got money somewhere."

"I heard tell that old Jonas Shuttleworth hed lifted Burley's quarrel; if so, Aske might as well give in. Jonas hes t' devil's own luck in quarrel of any kind."

"Jonas Shuttleworth! Niver!"

"Ay, and besides that, I hear that he is Burley's own uncle; blood is thicker than water when it comes to t' pinch."

"It is a bad job, Hodgson."

"Ay, it is, for Sykes & Co."

"Art thou turning thy coat, too?"

"Nay, not I. I praise t' bridge I walk oover, as long as iver it carries me."

Sykes turned angrily away. Some men like