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He was looking more serious than Tavernake had ever seen him. But for the improbability of the thing, Tavernake would have thought that he had turned pale. "My young friend," he said, "you've got to see me through this. You 've a sort of fancy for Mrs. Wenham Gardner, I know. To-night you shall be on her side." "I don't want any more mysteries," Tavernake protested. "I'd rather go home."
For Sally had a wholesome respect for, as well as an intuitive perception of, the old lawyer's shrewdness. Quick to scent a plot of any sort, Mrs. Gardner saw in this incident the arrival of Melvin with the Houston girls, and the absence of her star guest and escort certain circumstances that smelled strongly of pre-arrangement.
Then he told her of the whole lucky chance, his use of it, and how the way now lay clear before them. "We shall take Mr. Gardner back home," he said, "and save him the trouble of driving. It will be one of the easiest and most comfortable journeys that he ever took, and not a particle of harm will come to him from it." "But you? How will you get back into Richmond?"
The hope of independence, and of not being obliged to wish success to Gardner, was an opening into liberty and happiness. By night he was at the parsonage, and Violet in his arms as soon as the door was opened. That moment was perfect he was so eagerly tender, so solicitous lest she should have been injured by terror or exertion, so shocked at her peril in his absence.
They said we were like the dolls their little girls got at the fete, and produced two glassy-eyed atrocities with flaxen hair and vivid pink cheeks, and asked if we saw the resemblance. We didn't. They told Mrs. Gardner who has been many years in India, and looks it that they thought she was much nicer-looking than we were, her face was all one colour!
"Why should you," Pritchard remarked, "without proof? Look here." He drew a leather case from his pocket and spread it out. There were a dozen photographs there of men in prison attire. The detective pointed to one, and with a little shiver Tavernake recognized the face of the man who had been sitting at the right hand of Elizabeth. "You don't mean to say," he faltered, "that Mrs. Gardner "
Clinging fast to whatever offered support, a young girl with dark, terror-stricken eyes, met his look of horror, as with the reassuring words already quoted, Weldon Gardner rushed down to the rescue.
Underhill, Patrick, and Gardner had served in the Low Countries, probably also Mason. As Paris has been said to be not precisely the place for a deacon, so the camp of the Prince of Orange could hardly have been the best training-school for Puritans in practice, however it may have been for masters of casuistic theology.
Gardner was speaking of it in glowing terms, and was especially praising a maskinonge in the collection. "Yes," said Mr. Cameron, "that certainly was a fine fish when Smithson took him out of this lake five years ago; but I had set my heart on a bigger one. I wanted one that would weigh over fifty pounds when he came out of the water, and that one weighed only forty-three.
At Kimberley we had motors placed at our disposal by Mr. Gardner Williams, manager of the De Beers Company, and were amused to hear how excited the Kaffirs had been at the first automobile to appear in the Diamond City, and how they had thrown themselves down to peer underneath in order to discover the horse.
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