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If the police could have made a raid on the place they would have found among the guests certain persons long 'wanted. But the arrival of Chater and the flight of Leithcourt had an ulterior object. Chater had never been Leithcourt's enemy." "But I can't understand that," I said. "Why should Leithcourt have attacked Chater, rendered him unconscious, and shut him up in the cupboard in the library?"
His mighty "I" I am, I do, I say, I know, I think bulged from him, hanging from his voice, his glance, his gesture, his walk. In it Mrs. Chater bathed; to be carried along in the train of his mighty "I" was delectable to her. But to-night she could not effect the passage. A final effort she made to get aboard. "And in St. Petersburg!" she tempted.
Why was the real man's wife here?" "And where has her body been concealed? That's the question." "Again a mystery. We have made a thorough search for four days, without discovering any trace of it. Quite confidentially, I'm wondering if this man Chater knows anything. It is curious, to say the least, that the Leithcourts should have fled so hurriedly on this man's appearance.
In this affair, Olinto, our interests are mutual, are they not?" He nodded, after a moment's hesitation. "And you know also a man named Archer who is sometimes known as Hornby, or Woodroffe as well as a friend of his called Chater." "Si, signore," he said. "I have met them all to my regret." "And have you ever met a Russian a certain Baron Oberg and his niece, Elma Heath?" "His niece?
"It's very unusual for him to send out torpedo-boats to help a vessel in distress. That is generally left to the harbor tug." "Yes, I feel that it was most kind of him. That's why I took all the trouble to write. I don't understand a word of Italian, neither does Chater." "But you have Italians on board?" I remarked. "The two sailors who rowed me out are Genoese, from their accent."
To his third son the sorrowing father said: "The honours he has received from the Burmese Government have not been beneficial to his soul. Felix is certainly not so much esteemed since his visit as he was before it. It is a very distressing thing to be forced to apologise for those you love." Mr. Chater had removed to Ceylon to begin a mission in Colombo.
She asked: "What has happened?" and stood with quivering lip recording the flutters of her heart. George took one hand; patted it between both his. For the moment his boiling anger cooled beneath grim relish of his news. "I've pretty well killed that Chater swine," he said. "Mr. Chater? you've met Mr. Chater?" Now emotion boiled again in her turbulent George. He said: "I saw you run from him.
Bob Chater that she was annoyed. "I say, be decent to a fellow, Miss Humfray," he said. "Look here, I hadn't seen the kids for two years when I came back yesterday. They hardly remember their kind big brother." He addressed the small girl whose round eyes, moving from speaker to speaker since Mary had entered, were now upon him. "Do you, Angela?" he asked.
Chater obtained leave to bring his wife, she was so forlorn that he was obliged to seek for another station, and, receiving an invitation to Ceylon, left Felix alone, except for his marriage with a young woman of European extraction, but born in Burmah. Soon after a dispute arose between the British and Burmese governments, and two English ships of war appeared off Rangoon.
The command was unusual, and Mary, waiting as bid, worried herself with surmises upon it. She prayed it did not mean she was to soothe Mr. Bob Chater's digestion with lullabies upon the piano; that it boded an unpleasant affair she was assured. She did not err. Mrs. Chater came to her, dyspeptic-flushed, sternly browed. "Miss Humfray, I have one thing to say to you, no more.
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