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"Here comes the Stella; we shall soon have Terence Adair with us!" he exclaimed. "What brought him home?" asked the admiral. "Surely he went out with Jack Rogers to India?" "He got an ugly wound in cutting out a piratical junk in the Indian seas," said Murray.
"You as good as said that she wouldn't be averse to making a fourth of Adair. I therefore conjectured " "You conjectured all wrong," she cut him short. "They died for their country." "All of them?" He was making a rapid calculation as to how long could have elapsed between each re-marriage. "One at a time, of course," she added. "She was married to the first the first week of the war."
No sooner was the thought conceived than it was put into execution. Each boat was fitted with a long gun on the bows, besides swivels at the sides for closer quarters, and manned with twelve hands armed to the teeth, besides officers; and in the larger boats two or three extra men. Rogers and Adair got charge of two of the boats.
"Weel, that's pleasant and friendly like," said Mr Adair. "But isna your freen himsel lang o' makin his appearance?" "Rather, I confess; but he'll be here shortly, I daresay something of a particular nature detaining him, I have no doubt; but, in the meantime, we'll make ourselves at home. I know it will please him if we do so." And Mr Mowbray proceeded to the bell-pull, and rung it violently.
Not only were two tin hooks cut out, but three more were manufactured out of some nails before the files were rendered completely useless. Bait was the next thing to be procured. As there was nothing eatable on board, how was it to be got? That was the question. Adair solved it by trying one of his hooks without any. "Hurrah!" he exclaimed in less than five minutes, "I have a bite. Hurrah!"
I should like to speak to Markby for a moment on a small matter." A sharp walk took him to the cottages Adair had mentioned. He rapped at the door of the first, and the groundsman came out in his shirt sleeves, blinking as if he had just waked up, as was indeed the case. "Oh, Markby!" "Sir?" "You remember that you were painting the scoring box in the pavilion last night after the match?"
The complete explanation of such men as Adair we need not expect to find stated anywhere not even in and between the lines of his book. The conventionalist would seek it in moral obliquity; the radical, in a temperament that is irked by the superficialities that comprise so large a part of conventional standards.
A. Shafto Adair, "for an English reader, however powerful his imagination, to conceive the state of Ireland during the past winter, or its present condition. Famines and plagues will suggest themselves, with their ghastly and repulsive incidents the dead mother the dying infant the feast of cannibals Athens Jerusalem Marseilles.
Adair has without doubt visited her more often than was wise. It was remarkably foolish of him to have made a woman-friend whom he didn't share with Phyllis. But I suppose he didn't dare to introduce them after he'd seen that Phyllis was jealous. However that may be, this dread that they may run away together is moonshine. Mrs. Lockwood sets too high a value on herself.
But at the closing hour of the fifth day the demand was still good; and when Ford reached the hotel that night there was a telegram from Adair awaiting him. He tore it open and read it, with the blood pounding through his veins and a roar which was not of the street traffic drumming in his ears. P. S-W. closed at ninety-two to-day, and a Dutch syndicate will take the bonds.
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