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"Now," the solicitor continued "and this is the important point what was the answer to that charge foreshadowed by the defence during those days before you appeared?" Thresk answered the question quickly, if answer it could be called. "The defence had not formulated any answer. I came forward before the case for the Crown finished." "Quite so. But Mrs.
"I didn't say that"; and Thresk himself appeared in the doorway and went across to the writing-table upon which Hazlewood had just laid a drawer in which miniatures were ranged. "I haven't met you," said Pettifer, "since you led for us in the great Birmingham will-suit." "No," answered Thresk as he took his seat at the table. "It wasn't quite such a tough fight as I expected.
You are not going to bait me for your amusement. I am not your wife." And Ballantyne after a vain effort to stare Thresk down changed to a more cordial tone. "Well, you say it's a valuable thing to have just now. I say it's an infernally dangerous thing.
"You cannot control the price you will have to pay," he said to himself. That day, when Mrs. Ballantyne's solicitor returned to his office after the rising of the Court, he found Thresk waiting for him. "I wish to give evidence for Mrs. Ballantyne," said Thresk "evidence which will acquit her." He spoke with so much certainty that the solicitor was fairly startled.
She leaned back against the cushions of the victoria. A clear dark sky of stars wonderfully bright stretched above her head. After the hot day a cool wind blew pleasantly on the hill, and between the trees of the gardens she could see the lights of the city and of a ship here and there in the Bay at their feet. "But it's not very likely that Thresk will find them at Chitipur," said Repton.
He turned his attention to his own tumbler, into which Baram Singh had already poured the whisky; and at once he exclaimed indignantly: "There's much too much here for me! Good heavens, what next!" and in Hindustani he ordered Baram Singh to add to the soda-water. Then he turned again to Thresk. "But I've no doubt you exhausted Chitipur in your twenty-four hours, didn't you?
Thresk listened without a movement until Robert Pettifer had finished. Then he said: "You know Mrs. Ballantyne. Has she the strength which she must have had to drag a heavy man across the carpet of a tent and fling him outside?" "Not now, not before. But just at the moment? You argued, Mr.
Thresk jumped to the natural conclusion: a snake had crept in under the tent-wall and Ballantyne dared not move lest the snake should strike. Neither did he dare to move himself. Ballantyne was clearly within reach of its fangs. But he looked and there was nothing. The light was not good certainly, and down by the tent-wall there close to the floor it was shadowy and dim.
"I will write them," said Stella quietly. And she sat down at her own writing-table there and then. The doctor from Ajmere arrived during the day, made an examination and telegraphed a report to the Chief Commissioner at Ajmere. That report contained the three significant points which Repton had enumerated to Thresk, but with some still more significant details.
And of the two she who had fears and hesitations was still the most impatient to get it done. She had her curiosity and it was beginning to consume her. What had Thresk known of Stella and she of him before she had come out to India and become Stella Ballantyne? Had they been in love? If not why had Thresk gone to Chitipur?
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