"
"No, she won't. Not when she knows that they've been feeding on the
disgusting and half-decayed dead sheep. She'd hate to see one."
"What made you think of saying there was a dead sheep, J. J.?"
"I had to think of something," said Meldon, "or else she'd have come
with us. You contradicted every word I said, and gave the show away,
although you knew very well the extreme importance of giving Simpkins
his chance."
"I don't think he looked much like taking it when we left."
"No, he didn't. A more helpless, incompetent idiot than Simpkins I
never came across. He won't do a single thing to help himself. I
suppose he expects me to-- I'll tell you what it is, Major; I had some
regard for Simpkins before to-day, but I'm beginning to agree with you
and Doyle about him now."
"Then perhaps you'll stop trying to get him to marry Miss King."
"No, I won't. My coming round to your way of thinking is all the more
reason for marrying him. As long as I had any regard for him I felt it
was rather a pity to have him killed, and I was only doing it to please
you. Now that I see he really doesn't deserve to live I can go on with
a perfectly clear conscience.
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