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Speaking in round figures, they are worth about ninety thousand pounds." "Bully for you, Jack!" exclaimed Buck. "Bully for all of us, Buck," replied Jack quietly. "If you fancy I'm going to pocket these, you've missed your kick by a long chalk. We'll all share and share alike. Where would my father and myself have been if you hadn't come to the rescue?" "Right, Jack, quite right," said Mr. Haydon.
The startling irrelevance of the question caused Barbara to gaze sharply at Harlan, and when their eyes met she noted that his were twinkling with a light that she could not fathom. She hated him when she could not understand him. "Mr. Haydon, do you mean?" she questioned, a sudden coldness in her voice. Harlan nodded. "A little more than a year, I think.
There was, as Haydon had intimated, little use for an attempt at equivocation or pretense. It was a situation that must be faced squarely by both himself and Harlan. Harlan's reputation, and his action in keeping secret from Barbara Morgan the identity of her father's murderer, indicated sincerity on the man's part.
After this dinner, Haydon made up his mind to subject himself no more to the chance of these discussions, but gradually to withdraw from this freethinking circle. The chief artistic events of the year, from our hero's point of view, were, the final settlement of the Elgin Marbles question, and his own attempt to found a school.
Haydon, with all her hardness had wisdom, and she could feel the rarer strain there was in Lena. Lena was willing to go with Mrs. Haydon. Lena did not like her german life very well. It was not the hard work but the roughness that disturbed her. The people were not gentle, and the men when they were glad were very boisterous, and would lay hold of her and roughly tease her.
I am delighted to see you safe and sound in England once more, Mr. Haydon." "And I am very pleased to see you, Mr. Lane," said the famous expert, "and glad to say that I have brought home in safety, after all, that big stone, an account of which I cabled to you." He drew from his pocket the great ruby still wrapped in the fragment cut from U Saw's girdle, and laid it before Mr. Lane.
"That sounds as if they were about the main street," said Mr. Haydon. "Sure to be there first," replied Jack. "They're searching the place where the Malay heard the youngster cry." "Very true," said the father. "Let's strike towards the pagoda. It lies away from the danger zone, and there may be a chance for us there."
The joy with which Haydon welcomed this first step towards the object which he had been advocating throughout the whole of his working life, was marred by the painful misgiving that he would not be allowed to share the fruits of victory.
"I fancy we've seen these before, Jack," he said. "Rather," said his son. "These are the rubies that lay among the bones of the priests in the secret chamber. I dropped to that at once." "We never thought of them again," went on Mr. Haydon, "but the woman gathered them and carried them off. Now she has passed them on to you in this fashion.
They sat down together on the bench, and now Mr. Haydon learned the whole history of Jack's adventures. "Your quest, Jack, was well and bravely undertaken," he said, when his son had finished the story, "but these powerful and cunning rogues have been one too many for us up to the present." "But how were you seized, father?" cried Jack, and Mr. Haydon related his story in turn.
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