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To do right was to put in the ancient home and house of Eglington one whom he with anger and without any apparent desire to have her altogether for himself, all the riches of her life and love had dared to say commanded her sympathy and interest, not because he was a man dispossessed of his rights, but because he was a man possessed of that to which he had no right.
He looked round the great room slowly. "We have done our best," he said. "I need not have failed, if there had been no treachery. . . ." "If it hadn't been for Nahoum!" David raised his head. Supreme purpose came into his bearing. A grave smile played at his lips, as he gave that quick toss of the head which had been a characteristic of both Eglington and himself.
I chose for the child that he should stay with me and not go to him, to remain among his own people and his own class. He was a sinister, an evil man. Was the child to be trusted with him?" "The child was his own child," broke in Soolsby. "Your daughter was his lady the Countess of Eglington! Not all the Quakers in heaven or earth could alter that.
She sighed, and a shadow came into her eyes suddenly. She was thinking of Eglington. Did he make friends true friends? In London was there one she knew who would cleave to him for love of him? In England had she ever seen one? In Hamley, where his people had been for so many generations, had she found one? Herself? Yes, she was his true friend.
"No, I'll go with you to your door, and walk back to my cell. Home!" he growled to the footman, with a sardonic note in the voice. As they drove away, the Duchess turned to him abruptly. "What did you mean by your look when you said you had seen Eglington drive away from the House?" "Well, my dear Betty, she the fly-away drives him home now. It has come to that."
The fire flamed up again, but the masterful will chilled it down, and he answered: "What secret business can thee have with any of that name which I have cast out of knowledge or notice?" Ignorant as he was of the old man's cause for quarrel or dislike, Eglington felt himself aggrieved, and, therefore, with an advantage. "You had differences with my father, sir," he said.
"Ah, a scientific turn!" rejoined Eglington coolly looking at him narrowly, however. He was conscious of danger of some kind. Then for a minute neither spoke. Now that Soolsby had come to the moment for which he had waited for so many ,years, the situation was not what he had so often prefigured.
As she had read, hour after hour, the diaries of the cold, blue-eyed woman, Sybil Eglington, who had lived without love of either husband or son, as they, in turn, lived without love of each other, she had been overwhelmed by the revelation of a human heart, whose powers of expression were smothered by a shy and awkward temperament.
Along the bank of the Nile thousands of Arabs and fellaheen crowded to welcome "the Saadat," bringing gifts of dates and eggs and fowls and dourha and sweetmeats, and linen cloth; and even in the darkness and in the trouble that was on her, and the harrowing regret that she had not been with Eglington in his last hour she little knew what Eglington had said to Faith in that last hour Hylda's heart was soothed by the long, loud tribute paid to David.
Flushed with the success of last night's performance, stung by the attacks of the Opposition morning papers, confident in the big majority behind, which had cheered him a few hours before, viciously resenting the letter he had received from David that morning, Eglington returned such replies to the questions put to him that a fire of angry mutterings came from the forces against him.
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