Adrift with a Vengeance; A Tale of Love and Adventure (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: been hanged. It was put down by the Faculty as a miraculous case of recovery, and by Mrs. Bangs as only a trick to rob th house, and she never ceased to remind me that I was a confederate in the theft of the librarian's old clothes; but the evidence, she admitted, was not strong enough against me to justify a prosecution, and therefore her threat of handing me over to the police was never carried into execution. CHAPTER V. THE FATAL STRUGGLE. Mr. Flint, the curator, and Mr. Bangs, the librarian, quarrelled about money matters. The former maintained that he was entitled to seventy-five dollars more than the other was willing to allow; and in consequence of this disagreement, the curator refused to continue his labors any further, and went abroad denouncing him as a cheat, and uttering threats. He called at the building repeatedly to demand what he considered his due, and was invariably violent in his language. On one memorable Saturday, when Mr. Bangs was eating his homely dinner, at the kitchen table, the bell of the hall-door rang, and I ran to open it, and admitted Mr. Flint. " Is Mr. Bangs in the library ?" " No; he's eating his dinner." " Tell him I want to see him." I delivered the message, and Mr. Bangs returned the reply, that he was engaged, and had no time to see him. " No time, eh!'' repeated the curator, grinding his teeth, " Is Mrs. Bangs.with him?" " No; she's gone to market." " Then I'll go and have a talk with him," and he started forward with gleaming eyes to compel an interview. " I've come for that seventy-five dollars," he said, with an air of great determination, when he arrived in the presence of Mr. Bangs. " I don't want to have anything more to say to yon about that. I've done all that I intend to do," replied t...