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At this question the policeman glanced at him sharply. "Don't you know that? Who in thunder Stane! By Christopher!" As he made the recognition the new-comer held out his mittened hand. "Well this is a pleasure. Don't you know me, old man?" Stane looked at him as he shook his hand. "I think I do," he said. "Your Dandy Anderton, aren't you?" "Used to be," laughed the other.
Anderton rose from his seat. "I expect that will be Jean Bènard," he said quietly. "Jean Bènard? Who is Jean Bènard?" cried Ainley. "He is the man who Stane and I left to bring Chigmok along." "Chigmok!" "Yes, you see, Ainley, Chigmok was not dead as you meant him to be.
But don't communicate any suspicions you may happen to have to Anderton. He has set up that precious duty of his as a fetish, worships it, as you heard. Think of Dandy Anderton of the old days on his knees at the shrine of duty!" He gave a little laugh, and then continued, "But I don't want to be offered on his altar, and I won't be. You can bank on that!"
Anderton's selfishness a kind, hard, rough man but as selfish as a gentleman." It seemed a more excusable defect to Priscilla in the upper class, but had no redeeming touch in the status of Mr. Anderton. Halcyone, however, had a logical mind and reasoned with her nurse: "If they are all selfish, Priscilla, it must be either women's fault for letting them be, or God intended them to be so.
"He does not know I have this paper," answered Stane with a grateful look towards her. "But when I do meet him " He did not finish the sentence, and after a moment the girl announced that the meal was ready. As they ate, Anderton glanced from time to time at the man whom he had known as a careless youth at Oxford.
It is the only way. Duty is duty in my force, I can assure you." Stane looked at Helen, then he said: "We will accompany you, Anderton.
There's a good two hundred miles of them hereabouts and till we can begin to look for the trail it is no good worrying. Who are these men " "I can't say," answered Stane, "but I'll tell you what I know." Vividly and succinctly he narrated the events that had befallen since the policeman's departure from Chief George's camp on the trail of Chigmok. Anderton listened carefully. Twice he interrupted.
His solid, coarse voice was a little husky, and those who knew him well would have been aware that James Anderton was greatly moved as he bid his stepdaughter welcome. And when she had gone off to her room, accompanied by the boisterous Mabel and Ethel, he said to his wife: "Lu, you must get the girl some decent clothes. She looks confoundedly a lady, but that rubbish isn't fair to her.
For one moment it lost its assurance and a flicker of doubt came in the eyes. The girl divined that he had suddenly grown uncertain of his ground, and to her it was noticeable that after Anderton's reply Ainley's glibness left him, and that he spoke hesitatingly, haltingly, with frequent pauses, like a man uncertain of his words. "Then, by all accounts, you have met a regular rogue, Anderton!
"My old nurse has told me of your kind invitation, and is already beginning the preparations. I trust you left Mr. Anderton and my stepbrother and sisters well?" "Hoity-toity!" thought Louisa Anderton. "Of the same sort as the old spinsters. This won't please James, I fear!"
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