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Playmore arrived, from the facts submitted to him, was that the chances were now decidedly in favor of the recovery of the letter. Thrown in, nearly midway between the contents of the housemaid's bucket, the torn morsels would be protected above as well as below, when they were emptied on the dust-heap. Succeeding weeks and months would add to that protection, by adding to the accumulated refuse.
Do you think you can entrap him into speaking out? or terrify him into speaking out?" "If you will look at your notes, Mr. Playmore, you will see that I have already succeeded in terrifying him though I am only a woman and though I didn't mean to do it." "Very well answered. You mark the trick. What you have done once you think you can do again.
It remains to be seen whether he will not be as much astonished as I was when I tell him what Lady Clarinda told me." This smart reply produced an effect which I had not anticipated. To my surprise, Mr. Playmore abruptly dropped all further discussion on his side. He appeared to despair of convincing me, and he owned it indirectly in his next words.
You are a son of history; you had a duel with him, and beat him; you have always beaten him, even here where he has been supreme as governor from first to last, you have beaten him." "I hope I shall be even with him at the last at the very last," was Dyck Calhoun's reply. "We were made to be foes. We were from the first. I felt it when I saw him at Playmore. Nothing has changed since then.
At the lodgings in Spanish Town, after Dyck Calhoun had left, her mother had briefly said that she had told Dyck he could not expect the conditions of the Playmore friendship should be renewed; that, in effect, she had warned him off. To this Sheila had said that the killing of a man whose life was bad might be punishable.
If these discoveries had been made after a lapse of sixteen centuries, under a layer of dust and ashes on a large scale, surely we might hope to meet with similar cases of preservation, after a lapse of three or four years only, under a layer of dust and ashes on a small scale. The very accumulations which Mr. Playmore deplored would be the means of preserving them from the rain and the damp.
"There's something left from Playmore there's ninety pounds, and it's in my pocket. It was got from the sale of your sporting-kit. There was the boat upon the lake, the gun, and all kinds of riffraff stuff not sold with Playmore." Dyck nodded and smiled. "Good Michael!" Then he drew himself up stiffly, and blew in and out his breath as if with the joy of living.
His physique was as good, or better than when she first saw him on the hills of Playmore. It was athletic, strenuous, elastic. Yet there was about it the abandonment of despair at least of recklessness. The face was older, the head more powerful, the hair slightly touched with grey-rather there was one spot in the hair almost pure white; a strand of winter in the foliage of summer.
Will you kindly waive all ceremony and dine with us and go to the music afterward?" "You are very kind," I answered. "But I have some anxieties just now which will make me a very poor companion for Mrs. Playmore at the opera. My letter to you mentions, I think, that I have to ask your advice on matters which are of very serious importance to me." "Does it?" he rejoined.
But think it is more than seven long years since we met on the hills above Playmore, and you put your hand in mine and said we should be friends for all time. It is near three years since a letter came to me from you, and in the time I have made progress. I did not go to the United States, as you asked me to do. Is it not plain I could not? My only course was to avoid you.
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