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But I want to introduce you to my god-father, Mr. Fleming; you know it was his son whom your brother saved." And I heard Derrick being introduced as the brother of the hero of Saspataras Hill; and the next day he received a card for one of Mrs. Fleming's receptions, Lawrence having previously been invited to dine there on the same night. What happened at that party I never exactly understood.
"However, poor child, no doubt, after having been two years engaged to that very disappointing hero of Saspataras Hill, she will be shy of venturing to trust anyone again." "Do you think that affair ever went very deep?" I ventured to ask. "It seemed to me that she looked miserable during her engagement, and happy when it was broken off." "Quite so," said Lady Probyn; "I noticed the same thing.
And poor Lawrence spent a mauvais quart d'heure, inwardly fuming, I know, at the idea that he, the hero of Saspataras Hill, should be considered merely as 'the brother of Vaughan, the novelist. Fate, or perhaps I should say the effect of his own pernicious actions, did not deal kindly just now with Lawrence.
She went abroad for some time, however, and we did not see her till long after Lawrence had been comfortably married to 1,500 pounds a year and a middle-aged widow, who had long been a hero-worshipper, and who, I am told, never allowed any visitor to leave the house without making some allusion to the memorable battle of Saspataras Hill and her Lawrence's gallant action.
As we walked back to Bath he told me his 'Ruined Hall' story as far as it had yet evolved itself in his brain, and we were still discussing it when in Milsom Street we met a boy crying evening papers, and details of the last great battle at Saspataras Hill. Derrick broke off hastily, everything but anxiety for Lawrence driven from his mind.
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