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Now, she practically took the stage, leaning forward between the Duke of Deptford and Hiram Borringer, and addressing Helena Langley. 'My dear Miss Langley, she said, 'do you know that something has surprised me to-day? 'What is it? Helena asked, turning away from Mr. Selwyn, to whom she had been talking. 'Why, I felt sure, Mrs. Selwyn went on, 'to meet someone here to-day.
Soame Rivers answered her, 'Oh, it is the right thing to do; it poses a distinguished exile immediately. Quite the right thing. He was well advised. 'If only he had been as well advised in other matters, said Mr. Selwyn. Then Hiram Borringer, who had hitherto kept silent, after his wont, spoke. 'I knew him, he said, 'some years ago, when I was in Gloria.
'Yes, I knew he would do that, the girl said, with the proud air of a sort of ownership. 'You seem to have known all about him, Mrs. Selwyn said, smiling loftily, sweetly, as at the romantic enthusiasm of youth. 'Well, so I do somehow, Helena answered almost sharply; certainly with impatience. She was not thinking of Mrs. Selwyn. 'Now, Mr. Borringer, go on about his reforms.
The Duke gave a sigh of relief, and Hiram Borringer, who had been rather silent, seemed to shake himself into activity at the mention of Gloria. Mr. Selwyn said nothing, but watched his wife with the wondering admiration which some twenty years of married life had done nothing to diminish. The least trace of increased colour came into Helena's cheeks, but she returned Mrs.
'Well, I did drop him a hint or two of my ideas, but he wasn't the sort of man to take ideas from anybody. Not that I mean at all that my ideas were of any importance, but he wasn't that sort of man. 'What sort of man was he, Mr. Borringer? said Helena impetuously. 'What was he like, mentally, physically, every way? That's what we want to know.
How do you figure them up? The girl reflected. 'Well, I should say foreign refugees generally, and explorers, and all that kind; Mr. Hiram Borringer comes with his South Pole expeditions, and I see men who were in Africa with Stanley and all that kind of thing. 'Yes, but some of that may be a blind, don't you know.
Hiram looked a little bewildered. 'I beg your pardon, ma'am, he said. The Duke came to the rescue. 'Mrs. Selwyn's Shakespearean quotation expresses all our sentiments, Mr. Borringer. Give us a faithful picture of the hero of the hour. 'As for his hair and beard, Hiram resumed, 'why, they are pretty much like most people's hair and beard a fairish brown and his eyes match them.
'He made Gloria worth talking about! Helena retorted. 'Tell me, Mr. Borringer, how did he happen to get to Gloria at all? How did it come in his way to be President and Dictator and all that? 'Rebellion lay in his way and he found it, Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. Selwyn, the distinguished and thoroughly respectable actor and actress, just returned from their tour in the United States; the Duke and Duchess of Deptford the Duchess was a young and pretty American woman; Mr. Soame Rivers, Sir Rupert's private secretary; and Mr. Hiram Borringer, who had just returned from one expedition to the South Pole, and who was said to be organising another.
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