The Angry Tide: A Novel of Cornwall, 1798-1799 by Winston Graham

Author:Winston Graham [Graham, Winston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published: 2018-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

IV

Not only the mine manager, but her other two companions were waiting for her, one smoking, another sitting in the grass chewing a leaf of chucky-cheese he had picked from the hedge. In this sheltered part the blighting effect of the cold spring were not so plain.

As soon as they saw her they scrambled on to their ponies. They looked at her expectantly.

She said: ‘I have a draft for eight hundred pounds. It is not as much as I hoped but it is better than I feared.’

‘It d’seem a mint of money to me,’ said Zacky Martin.

The horses were snorting and trying to get their heads together, so that conversation was not easy.

‘And now?’ said Henshawe, watching her very closely.

‘Now,’ she said, ‘you and I, Captain Henshawe, will go into Basset’s and change this draft – and as little of it for notes and as much of it for coins as we can persuade them to give us. Perhaps all coin. I do not think they can refuse us if we demand it all in gold and silver.’

Henshawe gave his horse an admonitory flick. ‘And then?’

‘Then we go into a back room of the Red Lion and divide the money into – roughly into three parts. One part you will take, Will Nanfan, one you, Zacky, and one you, Will Henshawe. And then, one at a time, with a suitable interval in between, you will go, each one of you, back to Pascoe’s Bank, push your way through those noisy, sweating, ugly folk, and fight your way to the counter and then empty your bags on the counter and pay the money into the Poldark account. Make as much noise as you can. Clatter the coins. Let everyone see and know that you are paying the money in.’

There was no sound then but the snorting of the horses and the occasional creak of leather.

‘All the money?’ asked Zacky.

‘All,’ said Demelza.

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