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If we take our departure from Adelaide by the great Northern Road, we shall have to travel 25 miles over the plains, keeping the Mount Lofty Range at greater and less distances on our right, the plains extending in varying breadth to the westward, ere we can pull up at Calton's Hotel in Gawler Town, where, nevertheless, we should find every necessary both for ourselves and our horses.
"Ah," she said, her pale face flushing with anger, "you want me to live in a fool's paradise, which may end at any moment." "That depends upon yourself," he answered coldly. "I never roused your curiosity by telling you that there was a secret, but betrayed it inadvertently to Calton's cross-questioning.
Rolleston turned angrily away. "I never saw anything like these lawyers," he said to himself. "Calton's a perfect whirlwind, by Jove." Meanwhile Calton was talking to Madge. "You were right," he said, "there must have been a message for him at the Club, for he got none from the time he left your place."
Suddenly, when I had excited a general laugh at the clumsy success with which I warded off a most rapid attack of Calton's, I changed my position, and keeping Calton at arm's length till I had driven him towards a corner, I took advantage of a haughty imprudence on his part, and by a common enough move in the game, drew back from a stroke aimed at my limbs, and suffered the whole weight of my weapon to fall so heavily upon his head, that I felled him to the ground in an instant.
"Oh, dear, no," answered Calton, carelessly; "come in come in!" Kilsip closed the door softly, and gliding along in his usual velvet-footed manner, sat down in a chair near Calton's, and placing his hat on the ground, looked keenly at the barrister. "Well, Kilsip," said Calton, with a yawn, playing with his, watch chain, "any good news to tell me?"
"Wants to see me on business," he finished, awkwardly. "Connected with the sale of your station, I suppose," said Frettlby, still keeping his eyes on the young man's face. "Can't have a better man. Calton's an excellent man of business." "A little too excellent," replied Fitzgerald, ruefully, "he's a man who can't leave well alone." "A PROPOS of what?"
It drove up to the entrance of the court, where Calton's office was, and then Moreland, walking as if in a dream, left the room, and got into the cab, followed by Kilsip. "Do you know," said Chinston, thoughtfully, as they stood and watched the cab drive off, "do you know what the end of that man will be?" "It requires no prophet to foretell that," said Calton, dryly. "He will be hanged."
Chinston had received Calton's telegram, and was considerably astonished thereat. He was still more so when, on arriving at the office at the time appointed, he found Calton and Fitzgerald were not alone, but a third man whom he had never seen was with them. The latter Calton introduced to him as Mr.
The thought flashed through Calton's brain as to whether the young man before him was guilty or not, and he was obliged to confess that things looked very black against him. "Then what the newspapers said was correct?" "Partly." "Ah!" Calton drew a long breath here was a ray of hope. "You did not know it was Whyte when you found him lying drunk near the Scotch Church?" "No, I did not.
She was anxious to hear from Sal Rawlins' own lips the joyful words which would save Brian from a felon's death. "No, my dear," answered Calton, firmly, but kindly. "I can hardly take a lady to the place where Sal Rawlins lives. You will know all to-morrow, but, meanwhile, you must go home and get some sleep." "And you will tell him?" she whispered, clasping her hands on Calton's arm.
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