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"Oh, your turn will come some day," mumbled Wallis, remembering Gildersleeve's jealousy of the brigade commander a jealousy which only gave tongue when aroused by "commissary." "If you do as well as usual to-morrow you can have your own brigade." "I suppose you think we are all going to do well to-morrow," scoffed old Grumps, whose utterance by this time stumbled.
Men who remember Gildersleeve's old blustering manner stood aghast at the timidity with which the famous lawyer delivered himself on this, the first capital charge ever brought before him. He reminded the jury, in very solemn and almost warning tones, that where a human life was at stake, mere presumptive evidence should always carry very little weight with it.
Of a sudden the combat above rose and swelled into higher violence. There was a clamor far away it seemed nearly a mile away over the hill. Then the nearer musketry first Thomas's on the shoulder of the ridge, next Gildersleeve's in front caught fire and raged with new fury. Waldron laughed outright. "Gahogan has reached them," he said to one of his staff who had just rejoined him.
He seemed to the observant eye merely interested and curious, as the landlord finished his sentence carelessly "Person who did it's supposed to be a young man who was at Mambury this week, of the name of Waring." Gilbert Gildersleeve's heart gave another bound, still more violent than before. But again he repressed with difficulty all external symptoms of his profound agitation.
"No matter what on earth the rest of us girls get, Delia Spaulding manages to have something to cast us into the shade. It makes me so mad! Now, last week at Mrs. Gildersleeve's, when I dressed for the party I thought I looked really nice. I felt a complacency toward myself, as Margaret Pillsbury would say.
Now, Gilbert Gildersleeve's experience of criminal cases had abundantly shown him that a suspected person, even when innocent, always has one fixed desire in his head to gain time, anyhow. So Waring would naturally wish to gain time, at whatever cost.
The secret Gilbert Gildersleeve thought he had come down to Mambury to discover was not the secret he had actually found out in the register that morning. It was nothing about the Kelmscotts or Guy and Cyril Waring; it was something about the great Q..C. and his wife themselves presumably some unknown and disgraceful fact in Mrs. Gilbert Gildersleeve's early history.
In the iron-gray dawn, while the troops were falling dimly and spectrally into line, and he was mounting his horse to be ready for orders, he remembered Gildersleeve's drunken tale concerning the commandant, and laughed aloud. "Is that the boy's brother?" he said to himself; and in the next instant he had forgotten the whole subject; it was time to form and present the regiment.
For one wild instant Clarence thought of throwing himself from his horse and bidding them go on and leave him. But before he could put his thought into action the two men were galloping forward, with his horse led by a lariat fastened to the horn of Gildersleeve's saddle. In two hours more they had overtaken the train, already on the march, and were in the midst of the group of outriders.
Dead body's been discovered at Mambury, choked, and then thrown among the brake by the river. Name of McGregor a visitor from London. And they do say the police have a clue to the murderer. Person who did it " Gilbert Gildersleeve's heart gave a great bound within him, and then stood stock-still; but by an iron effort of will he suppressed all outer sign of his profound emotion.
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