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The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
I was within a yard of him when he alighted. 'Bless me, said I, 'Mr. Mowbray? 'G d my blood! Trevor! Is it you? The apostrophe startled me. Hector gave three loud cracks with his whip, whistled his dogs, and with a Stentor voice called after one of his servants 'Why holloa! You blind blood of a w ! Why Sam! G shiver your soul, what are you about?
He could have brought him down like a shot if he'd only gone for him. I know Trevor was jolly sick about it. And then he let him through once before in just the same way in the first half, only Trevor got round and stopped him. He was rank." "Missed every other pass, too," said Otway. Clephane summed up. "He was rank," he said again. "Trevor won't keep him in the team long."
"I am sorry to disturb you," said one. "Not at all," said the other, whose tone, I thought afterwards, betokened surprise, and no great cheerfulness. "But I have had no other opportunity to speak with you." "No," said the other, rather uneasily. Suddenly my senses were alert, and I knew that Mr. Trevor had pulled the detective out of bed.
"Trevor, I know I know we shan't be in time!" They were not the words she wanted to say to him, but they came uppermost and were uttered almost before she knew. She wondered if they would make him angry, but it was too late to recall them. She reached out her hands to him imploringly. "Oh, forgive me for caring so much!" "Hush!" he said again very gently. "I understand."
I was lying wounded myself, and he took my revolver to do it with. But it was a nasty jolt for the Kaffir. He knew exactly what was going to happen to him and why, before it happened. Afterwards, when Trevor came back to me, he was smiling, so I suppose it did him good. He's a very deliberate chap. Some people call him cold-blooded. He never acts on impulse.
Sylvia dare not risk a reminder which would seem in the last degree unfeeling, but presently the door opened, and Geoffrey Hilliard appeared on the threshold, looking round with anxious inquiry. "Good morning, Miss Trevor. The compliments of the season." Then he looked at his wife, all incredulous and aghast. "My dear girl, what are you about? Do you know that at any moment Bridgie may be here?
"I'll do it best alone; leastwise I'll take only little Tolly Trevor an' Leapin' Buck with me, for they're both smart an' safe lads, and are burnin' keen to learn somethin' o' woodcraft." In accordance with this determination, Mahoghany Drake, Leaping Buck, and little Trevor set off next day and followed Tom Brixton's trail into the mountains.
"And now," he continued, "while you are making the arrangements of which I just now spoke, I will go on deck and make Miss Trevor acquainted with the news of our misfortune." Miss Trevor received the news of Potter's demise with a few expressions of well-bred regret, but she did not appear to be very greatly concerned at the event. It could scarcely be otherwise.
I had no idea he ever got that far," I exclaimed. Miss Trevor laughed merrily. "It was my fault," she said; "I pinned him down, and he had to propose. There was no way out of it. I don't mind telling you." I did not know whether to be flattered or aggrieved by this avowal.
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