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<p><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: silver" color="silver"><p>"Oh, it¡¯s all right," she replied, chewing the end of hers.</p><p>The fourth member of the Committee at the previous meeting muttered: "I don¡¯t like paying attention to The Daily Phase."</p><p>"I had hoped to spare you, and to spare myself," she said. "If the miserable truth has come out, it is through no curiosity of yours, and (God knows!) against every wish of mine. I don¡¯t know if you really felt like a friend towards me before ¡ª you must be my friend now. Don¡¯t speak! I know I can trust you. One last word, Amelius, about my lost child. You doubt whether I should recognize her, if she stood before me now. That might be quite true, if I had only my own poor hopes and anxieties to guide me. But I have something else to guide me ¡ª and, after what has passed between us, you may as well know what it is: it might even, by accident, guide you. Don¡¯t alarm yourself; it¡¯s nothing distressing this time. How can I explain it?" she went on; pausing, and speaking in some perplexity to herself. "It would be easier to show it ¡ª and why not?" She addressed herself to Amelius once more. "I¡¯m a strange creature," she resumed. "First, I worry you about my own affairs ¡ª then I puzzle you ¡ª then I make you sorry for me ¡ª and now (would you think it?) I am going to amuse you! Amelius, are you an admirer of pretty feet?"</p><p>We kept the valley of the glorified stream till the waters sank out of sight down the cliff side and we could but hear them calling to one another through the tangle of the trees. Where the woodlands were lovelier, the gorge deepest, and the colours of the young hornbeam most tender, they had clapped down two vile hostelries of wood and glass, and a village that lived by selling turned wood and glass inlay things to the tourist.</p><p></p><p>Sergeant Long touched his cap, and turning on his heel left the room without a word.</p><p>They sat down at a corner of the small table, and Felix drew the note-book from his pocket to lay it down with the pocket-book, saying ¡ª</p><p>"Jump up, Bateson! It¡¯s your turn to be relieved."</p><p>Dinny turned from the window.</p><p>Having finished his tea, which did not take place till near eleven, he went downstairs to an untidy little room which lay behind his depot of medicines, and in which he was wont to do his writing; and herein he did at last set himself down to his work. Even at that moment he was in doubt. But he would write his letter to Miss Dunstable and see how it looked. He was almost determined not to send it; so, at least, he said to himself: but he could do no harm by writing it. So he did write it, as follows:¡ª¡®Greshambury, June 185-. My dear Miss Dunstable ¡ª¡¯ When he had got so far, he leaned back in his chair and looked at the paper. How on earth was he to find words to say that which he now wished to have said? He had never written such a letter in his life, or anything approaching to it, and now found himself overwhelmed with a difficulty of which he had not previously thought. He spent another half-hour in looking at the paper, and was at last nearly deterred by this new difficulty. He would use the simplest, plainest language, he said to himself over and over again; but it is not always easy to use simple, plain language,¡ª by no means so easy as to mount on stilts, and to march along with sesquipedalian words, with pathos, spasms, and notes of interjection. But the letter did at last get itself written, and there was not a note of interjection in it.</p><p>"Bound to, one way or another; and, for young Desert, the sooner the better. Give him a chance to captain his soul again. Poor little Dinny! This¡¯ll test her sense of humour. Oh! dear me! I feel older. What does Michael say?"</p><p>¡®I have been under a ban for three days,¡¯ he whispered in a husky voice, ¡®through no fault of mine ¡ª no fault of mine. They told me to take the third watch, but they didn¡¯t give me a printed notification which I always require, and the manager of this place says that whisky would hurt me. Through no fault of mine, God knows, no fault of mine!¡¯</p><p>¡®What articles of property, once belonging to your fellow-prisoner, Maurice Christian Bycliffe, do you still retain?¡¯</p><p>Hobson and Long managed with great difficulty to scramble over a mile or two towards the south, but at the expense of a vast amount of time, so that they were compelled to admit that they must wait some time yet, and they returned to Fort Hope disappointed and disheartened.</p><p>¡®Oh, yes; I am happy to say that he is.¡¯</p><p>Long set to work. With the aid of his hatchet and ice-chisel he had soon cleared away the earth, and hollowed out a kind of passage sloping gently down to the crust of ice.</p><p>The implied confession of her own intractable character, without religious faith to ennoble it, without even imagination to refine it ¡ª the unconscious disclosure of the one tender and loving instinct in her nature still piteously struggling for existence, with no sympathy to sustain it, with no light to guide it ¡ª would have touched the heart of any man not incurably depraved. Amelius spoke with the fervour of his young enthusiasm. "I would go to the uttermost ends of the earth, if I thought I could do you any good. But, oh, it sounds so hopeless!"</p><p>Number 1 was at the farther extremity of the row of houses. When Mr. Ronald rang the bell, the spies were already posted. The woman loitered on the road, within view of the door. Farnaby was out of sight, round the corner, watching the house over the low wooden palings of the back garden.</p><p>"I don¡¯t know," she answered; "I don¡¯t know how old I am now. I don¡¯t remember anything before the fiddle. I can¡¯t call to mind how long it was first ¡ª but there came a time when the old man and his wife got into trouble. They went to prison, and I never saw them afterwards. I ran away with the fiddle; to get the halfpence, you know, all to myself. I think I should have got a deal of money, if it hadn¡¯t been for the boys. They¡¯re so cruel, the boys are. They broke my fiddle. I tried selling pencils after that; but people didn¡¯t seem to want pencils. They found me out begging. I got took up, and brought before the what-do-you-call-him ¡ª the gentleman who sits in a high place, you know, behind a desk. Oh, but I was frightened, when they took me before the gentleman! He looked very much puzzled. He says, ¡®Bring her up here; she¡¯s so small I can hardly see her.¡¯ He says, ¡®Good God! what am I to do with this unfortunate child?¡¯ There was plenty of people about. One of them says, ¡®The workhouse ought to take her.¡¯ And a lady came in, and she says, ¡®I¡¯ll take her, sir, if you¡¯ll let me.¡¯ And he knew her, and he let her. She took me to a place they called a Refuge ¡ª for wandering children, you know. It was very strict at the Refuge. They did give us plenty to eat, to be sure, and they taught us lessons. They told us about Our Father up in Heaven. I said a wrong thing ¡ª I said, ¡®I don¡¯t want him up in Heaven; I want him down here.¡¯ They were very much ashamed of me when I said that. I was a bad girl; I turned ungrateful. After a time, I ran away. You see, it was so strict, and I was so used to the streets. I met with a Scotchman in the streets. He wore a kilt, and played the pipes; he taught me to dance, and dressed me up like a Scotch girl. He had a curious wife, a sort of half-black woman. She used to dance too ¡ª on a bit of carpet, you know, so as not to spoil her fine shoes. They taught me songs; he taught me a Scotch song. And one day his wife said she was English (I don¡¯t know how that was, being a half-black woman), and I should learn an English song. And they quarrelled about it. And she had her way. She taught me ¡®Sally in our Alley¡¯. That¡¯s how I come to be called Sally. I hadn¡¯t any name of my own ¡ª I always had nicknames. Sally was the last of them, and Sally has stuck to me. I hope it isn¡¯t too common a name to please you? Oh, what a fine house! Are we really going in? Will they let me in? How stupid I am! I forgot my beautiful clothes. You won¡¯t tell them, will you, if they take me for a lady?"</p><p>"Well, old man," said Michael, "that must have been a hearty scrap."</p><p>"What! you regret the absence of the rivals who are so evidently hostile to your Company?"</p><p>Lyddy was electrified by surprise at this new behaviour of Miss Esther¡¯s. She took her candle silently and went.</p><p>"What do you know?"</p><p>Hobson obeyed, and saw that part of the ice-wall, which, when he left, was two or three miles off in the offing, had fallen upon the coast of the island. Cape Bathurst no longer existed, the mass of earth and sand of which it was composed had been swept away by the icebergs and scattered over the palisades. The principal house and all the buildings connected with it on the north were buried beneath the avalanche. Masses of ice were crowding upon each other and tumbling over with an awful crash, crushing everything beneath them. It was like an army of icebergs taking possession of the island.</p><p>The captain took the hint. He instantly changed the subject; choosing, on this occasion, safe professional topics. He spoke of ships that were ordered on foreign service; and, finding that these as subjects failed to interest Mrs. Crayford, he spoke next of ships that were ordered home again. This last experiment produced its effect ¡ª an effect which the captain had not bargained for.</p><p>¡®A man can¡¯t make a vow not to quarrel,¡¯ said Jermyn, who was already a little irritated by the implication that Harold might be disposed to use him roughly. ¡®A man¡¯s temper may get the better of him at any moment. I am not prepared to bear anything.¡¯</p><p>"Richard, have you forgotten me?"</p><p>On the other hand, his son was meditating on the tangled relation in which he now found himself in connection with the city treasurer and the fact that it was not possible for him to support the market alone. Those who should have been in a position to help him were now as bad off as himself. There were many unfavorable points in the whole situation. Drexel & Co. had been booming railway stocks ¡ª loaning heavily on them. Jay Cooke & Co. had been backing Northern Pacific ¡ª were practically doing their best to build that immense transcontinental system alone. Naturally, they were long on that and hence in a ticklish position. At the first word they would throw over their surest securities ¡ª government bonds, and the like ¡ª in order to protect their more speculative holdings. The bears would see the point. They would hammer and hammer, selling short all along the line. But he did not dare to do that. He would be breaking his own back quickly, and what he needed was time. If he could only get time ¡ª three days, a week, ten days ¡ª this storm would surely blow over.</p><p>¡®Everything is changed, Harold. I am an old woman, you see.¡¯</p><p>"The fox is your property, sir," said Jaspar Hobson, vainly endeavouring to conceal his chagrin at seeing this valuable spoil fall into the enemy¡¯s hands.</p><p>"A new folly!" said Errol, as the Prince, flinging open a lattice of the ground parlour in which they sat, stept out into the garden ¡ª"a new folly, to call back that villain to his counsels. But he is infatuated."</p><p>¡®They have paid it,¡¯ said Mr Lyon, opening his desk. ¡®I have it here ready to deliver to you.¡¯</p><p>¡®Only do not let any one come down upon me for the money.¡¯</p><p>¡®I mean to make your sister my wife; she sent me word by you to say that she loved me, and I am not going to stand upon any nonsense after that. If she and I are both willing no one alive has a right to stand between us, and, by heavens, no one shall. I will do nothing secretly, so I tell you that, exactly as I have told her ladyship.¡¯</p><p>¡®There, there!¡¯ said Harold, coaxingly. ¡®Don¡¯t be afraid. You shall not have a daughter-inlaw unless she is a pearl. Now we will get ready to go.¡¯</p><p>¡®Yes, yes, on the outside, I daresay. But he was a fine fellow ¡ª I always liked him. And if anybody had asked me what I should choose for the good of the county, I couldn¡¯t have thought of anything better than having a young Transome for a neighbour who will take an active part. The Transomes and the Debarrys were always on the right side together in old days. Of course he¡¯ll stand ¡ª he has made up his mind to it?¡¯</p><p></p><p>"I will presently know the cause. Here, Conachar, come speedily and tie my points. I forgot ¡ª the Highland loon is far beyond Fortingall. Patience, daughter, I will presently bring you news."</p><p>"This, then, brother Simon, I have to acquaint you with. This young chief, who is swoln with contemplation of his own power and glory, loves one thing better than it all, and that is thy daughter."</p><p>For the moment, the dance which is in progress is a quadrille. General admiration selects two of the ladies who are dancing as its favorite objects. One is a dark beauty in the prime of womanhood ¡ª the wife of First Lieutenant Crayford, of the Wanderer. The other is a young girl, pale and delicate; dressed simply in white; with no ornament on her head but her own lovely brown hair. This is Miss Clara Burnham ¡ª an orphan. She is Mrs. Crayford¡¯s dearest friend, and she is to stay with Mrs. Crayford during the lieutenant¡¯s absence in the Arctic regions. She is now dancing, with the lieutenant himself for partner, and with Mrs. Crayford and Captain Helding (commanding officer of the Wanderer) for vis-a-vis ¡ª in plain English, for opposite couple.</p><p>At this moment a strange sound attracted his attention. It was not the cry of a frightened bird, but the shout of a human voice! By one supreme effort Hobson raised himself above the waves and looked around him.</p><p>As she spoke, the runner directed his course to the garden. Louise¡¯s little dog ran to meet him, barking furiously, but came back, to cower, creep, and growl behind its mistress; for even dumb animals can distinguish when men are driven on by the furious energy of irresistible passion, and dread to cross or encounter them in their career. The fugitive rushed into the garden at the same reckless pace. His head was bare, his hair dishevelled, his rich acton and all his other vestments looked as if they had been lately drenched in water. His leathern buskins were cut and torn, and his feet marked the sod with blood. His countenance was wild, haggard, and highly excited, or, as the Scottish phrase expresses it, much "raised."</p><p>IT has just occurred to me with great force that delightful as these letters are to myself their length and breadth and depth may be just the least little bit in the world wearisome to you over there. I will compress myself rigorously, though I should very much like to deliver a dissertation on the American Army and the possibilities of its extension.</p><p>¡®The Chinaman¡¯s a native,¡¯ I said. ¡®That¡¯s the look on a native¡¯s face, but the Jap isn¡¯t a native, and he isn¡¯t a Sahib either. What is it?¡¯ The Professor considered the surging street for a while.</p><p>Such was the impression left on the mind of Regina by the interview in the shrubbery.</p><p>¡®Not I, sir,¡¯ said Felix; ¡®I should say, teach any truth you can, whether it¡¯s in the Testament or out of it. It¡¯s little enough anybody can get hold of, and still less what he can drive into the skulls of a pence-counting, parcel-tying gcneration, such as mostly fill your chapels.¡¯</p><p>But while she ate she grew more restless, as if sitting still and attending to a single function were sharpening the edge of her anxiety. A duel! Fantastic, in these days! And yet ¡ª Uncle Lawrence was uncanny, and Wilfrid in just the mood to do anything to show himself unafraid. Were duels illegal in France? Thank heaven she had all that money. No! It was absurd! People had called each other names with impunity for nearly a century. No good to fuss; tomorrow she would go with Uncle Lawrence and see that man. It was all, in some strange way, on her account. What would one of her own people do if called a coward and a cad ¡ª her father, her brother, Uncle Adrian? What COULD they do? Horsewhips, fists, law courts ¡ª all such hopeless, coarse, ugly remedies! And she felt for the first time that Wilfrid had been wrong to use such words. Ah! But was he not entitled to hit back? Yes, indeed! She could see again his head jerked up and hear his: ¡®Ah! That¡¯s better!¡¯</p><p>Near the footprints there were marks of a heavy body having been dragged along the snow, and the impression of a hand.</p><p>¡®He was here yesterday, with her ladyship; and I lunched there today. The letter came, you know, in time to stop the Merediths. They don¡¯t go till tomorrow, so you will meet them after all. Sir George is wild about it, but Lady Lufton would have her way. You never saw her in such a state as she is.¡¯</p><p></p><p>¡®Oh! dear, no; nothing of the kind. But something I dare say you will have to pay: if you like to take Dandy for a hundred and thirty, you can be prepared for that amount when Tozer comes to you. The horse is dog cheap, and you will have a long day for you money.¡¯ Mark, at first, declared, in a quiet determined tone, that he did not want the horse; but it afterwards appeared to him that if he were so fated that he must pay a portion of Mr Sowerby¡¯s debts, he might as repay himself to any extent within his power. It would be as well perhaps that he should take the horse and sell him. It did not occur to him that by so doing he would put it in Mr Sowerby¡¯s power to say that some valuable consideration had passed between them with reference to this bill, and that he would be aiding that gentleman in preparing an inextricable confusion in money matters between them. Mr Sowerby well knew the value of this. It would enable him to make a plausible story, as he had done in that other case of Lord Lufton. ¡®Are you going to have Dandy?¡¯ Sowerby said to him again.</p></font></p>