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The sahib had ridden through the jungle from Khanmulla, he said. He gave no name. "Confounded fool!" said Ralston. "No one but a born lunatic would do a thing like that. Go and see what he wants like a good chap, Tommy! I'm busy." Tommy rose with alacrity. His curiosity was aroused. "Perhaps it's Monck," he said. "More likely Barnes," said Ralston.
The challenge rang sharply on the night air, outside a small gate in the barricade of the Monck Aviation Grounds. "Liberty!" answered Gabriel, pausing as he gave the password. "All right, come on," said a vague figure at the gate. The little group approached. The gate opened. Silently they entered the enclosure. Another man stepped from a hangar.
"She liked him well enough to marry him." Tommy made an indignant sound. "She was in a mood to marry any one. She'd probably have married you if you'd asked her." Monck made an abrupt movement as if he had lost his balance, but he returned to his former position immediately. "Think so?" he said in a voice that sounded very ironical. "Then possibly she has had a lucky escape.
She had left Monck there also, but she fancied Ralston did not mean to let him stay. Her thoughts dwelt oddly upon Monck. He had surprised her; more, in some fashion he had pierced straight through her armour of indifference. Wholly without intention he had imposed his personality upon her. He had made her recognize him as a force that counted.
The misery in his eyes gave place to a dumb curiosity. "Now," Stella said, "get to bed, and I will bring you some of Tommy's quinine." She turned from him, revolver in hand, but paused and in a moment turned back. "Captain Monck, you heard what I said, didn't you? You will go straight to bed?" Her voice held a hint of pleading, despite its insistence. He straightened himself in his chair.
In the interval between this and my last visit, Lord Monck had been appointed Governor-General in place of Sir Edmund Head, retiring. In talking with the Duke about this appointment, he said, "I offered the position to five men previously, and they refused it." I replied, "Did your Grace offer it to Lord Lawrence, now at home?"
To my great surprise, at the end of December last, I received from Lord Monck a note, accompanied by the copy of a despatch from the Duke, informing me that a mode had been found to meet my wishes and those of Galt, which consisted in the publication in the 'London Gazette' of a 'notification' omitting our names, and such notification to be substituted for the former one of July last.
"That's the idea," said Monck. "I hope you and Tommy will be quite comfortable," she said. "No doubt he will be a good deal happier with you than he has been for the past few weeks with me." "I don't know why he should be," said Monck. "No?" She was frowning slightly over her glove. "You see, my sojourn here has not been a great success. I think poor Tommy has felt it rather badly.
Oliver died in 1658, on his "fortunate day," the 3rd of September, leaving England to experience twenty months of republican intrigue and anarchy. Richard Cromwell Lambert Ludlow Monck each played his part in this stormy interval, till, the time being ripe for a restoration, Charles II. landed at Dover on the 23rd of May, 1660 and was carried in triumph to London.
He watched Monck furtively from behind Stella's chair, obeying his every behest with a promptitude that expressed the most complete submission. Monck bestowed no attention upon him. He smiled a little when Stella expressed concern over Tessa's failure to eat anything. It was evident that he felt no anxiety on that score himself. "Leave the imp alone!" he said.
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