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There was no condition as to secrecy, and, first turning the conversation on to indoor amusements, he told the astonished Mrs. Riddel the full particulars of the fatal game. Mrs. Riddel said that she would never forgive them; it was the most preposterous thing she had ever heard of. And she demanded hotly whether she was to spend the rest of her life in refusing Mr. Halibut.
We have here, I believe, quite formed a party to visit another quarter of the Globe a short trip to Africa is at present in agitation. A Capt. Riddel from Gibraltar is one of the promoters, and if we can get to Gibraltar in any decent time you may possibly in my next letter hear some account of the Good Mahometans at Tangiers.
"I think," said his companion at last, "that, if you like, you can get back at cribbage what you lost at chess. That is, of course, if you really want to." "He wouldn't play," said the Major, shaking his head. "No, but I will," said Mrs. Riddel, with a smile. "I think I've got a plan." She blushed charmingly, and then, in modest alarm at her boldness, dropped her voice almost to a whisper.
"Apparent neglect?" repeated the widow, somewhat haughtily. "Well, put it down to a guilty conscience," said the Major; "it seems years to me since I have seen you." "Remember the conditions, Major Brill," said Mrs. Riddel, with severity. "I shall not transgress them," replied the Major, seriously. Mrs. Riddel gave her head a toss, and regarded him from the corner of her eyes.
Riddel would have nothing to do with you was because she thought somebody else might make a similar offer." "That's what I thought," said Halibut, simply; "but you see now that you have so unaccountably so far as Mrs. Riddel is concerned dropped out of the running, perhaps, if I am gently persistent, she'll take me." The Major rose and glared at him.
'In respect of J.'s petition, the justices, Mr Fergusson of Craigdarroch, and Captain Riddel, ordered the collector to stop proceedings until they should have had an opportunity of inquiring into the truth of what it set forth. Then came Burns's "Answers to the Petition of T. J.:
I hear that Jotham Riddel and the man who bought his betterments have agreed to leave their difference to men, and I dont think therell be more than two civil cases in the calendar. I am glad of it, said the judge; nothing gives me more pain than to see my settlers wasting their time and substance in the unprofitable struggles of the law. I hope it may prove true, sir.
Farewell, thou first of friends, and most accomplished of women I even with all thy little caprices! CXC. To MRS. RIDDEL. Madam, I return your commonplace book. I have perused it with much pleasure, and would have continued my criticisms, but as it seems the critic has forfeited your esteem, his strictures must lose their value.
Riddel, after an animated description of a game at cribbage with Miss Philpotts the night before, got the cards out and challenged Halibut to a game. They played two, both of which the diplomatic Halibut lost; then Mrs. Riddel, dismissing him as incompetent, sat drumming on the table with her fingers, and at length challenged the Major. She lost the first game easily, and began the second badly.
The letter was as follows: "Riddel, If you want to get to the bottom of that boat-race affair, you had better see what Tom the boat-boy has to say. That's all." Riddell, as he read over and over again the mysterious document in his hand, hardly knew what to make of it. It looked like a clue, certainly. But who had sent it?
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