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At that time they were likely to find any person wiser than themselves, and he had seen to it that there should be no indiscretion at Malchester Row. "Sir Hilary just come in, sir," said some one, opening the door just wide enough to permit a head to be thrust within; but before Foyle could move the Assistant Commissioner himself walked in.
"Yes, we shall do that when we have done," said the leader, from whom all the others stood away in respect; and as the light burned up the speaker took off his cocked hat, and Hilary saw that he was a singularly handsome man of about forty. "When you have done!" cried Hilary. "What do you mean?" "Be silent and answer my questions, my good lad," said the other.
She decided to begin by darning his socks, for she chanced to have some black darning wool in her workbox. She brought three pairs of them into the studio, and began to darn. Nature had been generous, even lavish, to Hilary Vance in the matter of feet; and his socks were enormous. So were the holes in them. But their magnitude did not shake Pollyooly's resolve to darn them.
From thence he followed the lane down to the cliffs, where, as Billy Waters afterwards told Hilary, they found the place where the smugglers had been in the habit of landing their goods, and the cottage he had described.
"It won't make much difference, of course," he began, and his voice sounded odd and small and tired in the great room, "but I think I should like you to know that all this stopped three weeks ago. Hilary we decided then to to give it up, and run 'The Gem' on different lines in future.
"I verily believe," said the president, "at a word from your son, most of them would put on their coats and follow him on any mad expedition that came into his mind." Hilary Vane groaned more than once in the train back to Ripton. It meant nothing to him to be the father of the most popular man in college.
Hilary and Anna had lately sung this wail together, but not to its end, she had called it "so ungenuine." How rakishly now it came ripping out. "My fortune is too hard for thee," it declared, "'twould chill thy dearest joy. I'd rather weep to see thee free," and ended with "destroy"; but it had the swagger of a bowling-alley.
Hilary said that when he was a boy almost all the cottages in the place had a man or woman living in them who had attained to extreme old age. He reckoned up cottage after cottage to me in which he had known old folk up to and over eighty years of age. Of late the old people seemed to have somehow died out: there were not nearly so many now.
Can't you make him quit it?" The nephew joined them: "Uncle, if you'd like to borrow my horse I can go by train." That was a joke. "H-m-m! I see! No, Greenleaf's going by train. Would you like to ride with me?" "Well, eh ha! Why, uncle, I why, of course, if Fred really " They mounted and went. "Hilary?" "Yes, uncle?" "How is it now? Like my girl any better?" "Why yes! Oh, she's fine! And yet I "
"Oh yes, I will tell you fast enough," Hilary said, who had been as taken aback by Margaret's sudden entry as the latter had been to find her there, and who, considerably to her own surprise and annoyance, was conscious of a distinct feeling of shame at the position in which she had been caught. But as she scrambled to her feet and faced Margaret she shook off that feeling.
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