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The next point of interest to the party was "'Frisco and the Yosemite," toward which they pushed as fast as steam could take them, Sir Robert and Miss Noel being vividly interested in many things en route, Ethel and Mr. Heathcote pleased by a few, Mrs. Sykes grumbling ceaselessly about the length, monotony, bareness, aridity, stupidity, and general hideousness of the journey.
"I would venture to guess that he wasted no time in trying to attract attention. The door was closed, so he just got out of the window. I rather admire the spirit; there is something Napoleonic about him. Don't you think so?" Lewes shrugged his shoulders. Heathcote's expression was quite non-committal. "You'd better send Jessop up to Pym, Heathcote," said Challis.
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil, who owned 30,000 sheep of his own, was a magistrate in those parts, and able to hold his own among his neighbors, whether rough or gentle; and some neighbors he had, very rough, who made it almost necessary that a man should be able to be rough also, on occasions, if he desired to live among them without injury. Heathcote of Gangoil could do all that.
Colorado is doubtful, and so are Utah and Wyoming and Idaho; can we go through them with a man like Heathcote, presumably in charge of our party?" Proof that Harley's fears were justified was forthcoming at once. The crowd at the station, drawn by various causes, had been usually large, and Mr. Heathcote was received with a gasp of amazement.
He had not, perhaps, found the Paradise which he had expected in Queensland, but he had found that he could grow sugar; and having begun the work, he was determined to go on with it. Heathcote was his nearest neighbor, and the only man in his own rank of life who lived within twenty miles of him.
But, whatever might have been the peculiar merit of Mark Heathcote and his household in this particular, it was likely to be exceeded by the exhibition of the same quality in the youth who had so strangely become their captive. We have already said, that this child of the woods might have seen some fifteen years.
When Mark Heathcote announced to the community, in which he had now sojourned more than twenty years, that he intended for a second time to establish his altars in the wilderness, in the hope that he and his household might worship God as to them seemed most right, the intelligence was received with a feeling allied to awe.
She retreated quickly into the Salt Lake car to hide her blush. When they saw the last smoke of the train melting into the blue sky, Harley and Mr. Heathcote walked back to the hotel together. A strong friendship had grown up between these two, and each valued the other's opinion. "A fine woman," said Mr. Heathcote, looking towards the silky blue of the sky where the smoke had been. "Yes, Mrs.
To this, however, Mrs. Heathcote had demurred successfully. "You'll kill yourself, Harry, if you go on like this," she said. Bender, therefore, was sent in the buggy for the old lady, and at last Harry Heathcote consented to go to bed. "My belief is, I shall sleep for a week," he said, as he turned in. But he didn't begin his sleep quite at once.
"He died himself a few years afterwards." "Three years." "He left you ten thousand pounds. What have you done with it?" "Mr. Heathcote, of Heathcote, Sons, and Vyse, was my solicitor." "Well?" I remembered that he had been away from England for several years. "The firm failed," I told him, "for a quarter of a million. Mr. Heathcote shot himself.
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