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Then make the best of your way to Dunkerque, and I need hardly say that I shall be glad to see you whenever you are in port on business or for pleasure." "And I as well, Leigh," said Captain Charteris. "Some day let's hope that I shall be an admiral, and when I am I shall wish for no better luck than to have Captain Leigh in command of my flagship. But that will be some time ahead.
Sir Patrick Charteris, listening with much attention, seemed particularly struck with the escape of the man who had been made prisoner. "Strange," he said, "that you did not secure him when you had him. Did you not look at him so as to know him again?" "I had but the light of a lantern, my Lord Provost; and as to suffering him to escape, I was alone," said the glover, "and old.
"I wish to Heaven there were. But why should Sher Singh make things out worse when they were bad enough already? Besides, I questioned the fellow pretty sharply, and he was not to be shaken. So I started at once to catch you up." "Thanks," said Gerrard absently. "That poor little woman, Bob! How will she ever stand it?" "Doesn't bear thinking of," said Charteris brusquely.
If he hadn't, I should have won hands down. Oh, I say, guess who I met at Rutton. 'Not a beak? 'No. Almost as bad, though. The Bargee man who paced me from Stapleton. Man who crocked Tony. 'Great Scott! cried the Babe. 'Did he recognize you? 'Rather. We had a very pleasant conversation. 'If he reports you, began the Babe. 'Who's that? Charteris looked up. Tony Graham had entered the study.
By the time he reached the tape, dutifully held by two sporting Merevalian juniors, Charteris's attention had generally been attracted elsewhere. 'What time? Welch would pant. 'By Jove, Charteris would observe blandly, 'I forgot to look.
Musgrave stared after him, for a while. The lust of victory died; the tumult and passion and fervor were gone from Musgrave's soul. He could very easily imagine the things Jack Charteris would say to Anne concerning him; and the colonel knew that she would believe them all.
We shall have to take Rukn-ud-din and Amrodh Chand into our confidence as far as the preliminaries go, and they'll be delighted to help, but they must understand that the thing itself is a Sahibs' job." "Don't forget that the whole thing depends on Rukn-ud-din's being right in saying that Sher Singh never left the city." "Oh, don't buck. Of course he's right," said Charteris rudely.
I will escort you to your house, Miss Charteris, and then Mrs. Earle and myself will make our arrangements." In her sweet, womanly pity, Valentine bent down and kissed the despairing face. "Try to believe that you are wrong and mistaken, Mrs. Earle," she said gently. "I had no thought save to be your friend." They spoke no word as they passed through the pretty grounds.
Charteris and Gerrard both saw the curtains of the howdah put aside, and a head, apparently that of a woman, thrust forth. They could not hear what was said, but the newcomers were instantly allowed to pass, and staring soldiers began to gather and follow behind them.
He distributed typed parts of the play among the company, and they lost them. But nothing daunted him. "Mr. Charteris," said Lady Blunt after one somewhat energetic rehearsal, "is indefatigable. He whirled me about!" This was perhaps his greatest triumph, that he had induced Lady Blunt to take part in the piece. Her first remark, on being asked, had been to the effect that she despised acting.
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