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They call it Boreham Bridge, and it is a place that I shall not forget. When we were halfway down the steep hill suddenly the first blast of the gale smote us in the face, and that with a roar and howl and rush that drowned all other sounds. The branches flew from the trees along the hillside, and more than one great trunk gave way at last to that onset.
Miss Boreham could never master her mother by her own efforts; but it was, I think, by a little intrigue on her part that Lady Baldock was mastered, and, indeed, altogether cowed, in reference to our hero, and that this victory was gained on that very afternoon in time to prevent the sending of the card.
"I'd take a trip to Paris and see for myself whether the Frenchwomen are as bad as they're made out to be, or go to Japan. But what are we going to do about Douglas?" "Kick the skunk out of town, or boycott him!" said one or two. "He ought to be tarred and feathered and hanged." "Couldn't do worse than hang him," commented Jake Boreham, cheerfully.
But Lady Baldock or Miss Boreham had always been there. Nothing could be more pleasant than Miss Effingham's words, or more familiar than her manner to Phineas. She had expressed strong delight at his success in getting a seat in Parliament, and had talked to him about the Kennedys as though they had created some special bond of union between her and Phineas which ought to make them intimate.
He then wrote to Sir John Methuen Poore, the Lieutenant, and honestly told him that, as he was not concerned in Dyke's keeping up the price of his wheat, he should not attend at Salisbury, as he was going to Boreham, where he had particular business. Boreham was near Warminster, not more than 20 miles from Salisbury, and Everly was 16 miles.
"Ah, my dear boy," he used to say, "it is very well for you that our friend Carrington in gone to Berkeley Castle; for if he were here he would laugh till his sides cracked to hear what is going on." I demanded, why so? "Why," said he, "your gallant Captain is run away already; he is gone to Boreham."
"But perhaps Douglas thought you were crowing over him when you took off your hat to him sneerin' at him, like, Mitchell," reflected Jake Boreham. "No, Jake," said Mitchell, growing serious suddenly. "There are ways of doing things that another man understands." They all thought for a while.
Then she cantered on, and he followed her till they reached the Earl and Lady Baldock and Miss Boreham. "I have done my devotions now," said Miss Effingham, "and am ready to return to ordinary life." Phineas could not find another moment in which to speak to her.
It wasn't the eye he lost saving Campbell it was the old wall-eye he used to use in the days before he was called 'One-eyed Bogan. I suppose he thought it was dark and that I couldn't see his face. "Come on, Mitchell," said Tom Hall, "you've had enough beer." "I think I have," said Mitchell. "Besides, I promised to send a wire to Jake Boreham to tell him that his mother's dead.
Then send your card to Mr. Finn." And, so saying, Lord Baldock left the room. Lady Baldock sat in silence for some time toasting her toes at the fire, and Augusta Boreham sat by, waiting for orders. She felt pretty nearly sure that new orders would be given if she did not herself interfere. "You had better put by that card for the present, my dear," said Lady Baldock at last.
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