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"You'd better get a bit further off before you talk like that, young man," growled a fierce-looking little fellow. "Let the gentleman alone, Tim," said Big Todd. "He's a flag o' truce." "Then you won't come?" asked the Captain. "Declined with thanks, sir," bowed Big Todd. Heseltine rode back and delivered the reply. An angry flush crossed Lord Eynesford's face.
Captain Heseltine stated his opinion that if Sir Robert won, there would be "some fun" in Kirton, and was understood to mean that the Queen's Peace would be broken. Apparently the police authorities were of the same way of thinking, for at their request all preparations were made for calling out the Mounted Volunteers.
I went on with the hunting surveyor at Banagher for three years, during which, at Kingstown, the watering place near Dublin, I met Rose Heseltine, the lady who has since become my wife. The engagement took place when I had been just one year in Ireland; but there was still a delay of two years before we could be married.
He had a flow of conversation, and seemed in no hurry to move. Captain Heseltine appeared with a summons for Dick, who sulkily obeyed. Puttock caught sight of Jewell, and, with an apology, pursued him. Benham sat talking to Daisy Medland. Presently he proposed they should go where they would see the people better, and Daisy, who was bored, eagerly acquiesced.
"None of that, gentlemen! You must leave it to us," and at the same instant the first rank seemed to leave them. The order to advance had been given, and the mêlée had begun. The rear rank advancing covered the members of the Club from attack. "We seem to be spectators," observed Captain Heseltine, in a disappointed tone. He had earnestly hoped that some one would assault him.
If I hadn't been on special duty that day, and as nervous as a cat in a thunderstorm, I'd have volunteered to bring No. 2 Troop of A out to the rescue, instead of Heseltine. As it was, I nearly fell off the roof when I saw my wife coming, one trooper, as pale with fright as a piece of soap, supportin' her on his saddle, another man leading the mare, dead lame and the Corporal's hairy.
I wonder if there's some one else; it looked like it. But who the deuce could it be here? It can't be Heseltine or Flemyng they're not her sort and there's no one else. Ah! the mail came in this morning, perhaps it's some one at home. That must be it. I like that fellow's impudence. Wonder who the other chap is.
"Awful!" said Lady Eynesford in a whisper. "He wants a new coat," said Captain Heseltine. "He looks rather interesting, I think," said Alicia. At this moment a rare and beautiful butterfly fluttered close over Mr. Medland's head. He paused and watched it for a moment. Then he looked carefully round him: no one was in sight: the butterfly settled for a moment on a flowerbed. Mr.
"Oh," said the Captain, scornfully implying that he ceased to attach value to Mr. Kilshaw's judgment. "I won't bet, because I know." "The deuce you do!" exclaimed Heseltine, promptly re-pocketing his apparatus. "And, if you want another reason why I won't bet," continued Kilshaw, who did not like the Captain's air of incredulity, "I'll tell you. I'm going to stop it myself."
Medland and Alicia was inadvisable, but that as regards herself the case was different. "In short," said Alicia, summarising the distinctions, "you are thirty and I am twenty-two. But I don't want to know the man, only I liked him for hunting that butterfly. I wonder what Miss Medland is like. Captain Heseltine says she's very pretty." "I don't know." "Is she out?
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