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Everything," continued Carfax, again rubbing his hands with great satisfaction, "everything is now all right, and Mr. Wraythwaite of Wraye will take his proper and rightful place amongst his own people." "I'm exceedingly glad to hear it," said Brereton, with a smile at the big man, who continued to watch Avice as if his thoughts were with her rather than with his solicitor's story.
"'T is murder, not satisfaction, they seek!" ejaculated Franks, below his breath. Another and yet another step each took, until there was not twenty feet between the two; then Lee halted and coolly raised his arm; one more step Brereton took as he did so, and not pausing to steady his body, his pistol was swung upward so quickly that it flashed first.
Barely were they reached, when a mounted officer rode up to the Hessian regiments and cried: "Forwarts!" waving his sword toward the cannon. "We can't hold the guns against them!" yelled Brereton. "Over with them, men!"
Brereton shoved open the door wide enough for the horse to pass through. "And not for his Excellency's aide?" he asked. Janice laughed a little shyly as she replied: "Does not the greater always include the lesser?" Barely were the words spoken, when a sound from the outside reached them, making both start and listen intently.
"Janice Meredith! Wilt never give thy thoughts to something else than men?" "Well, Brereton," asked Tilghman as the aide joined his fellow-soldiers, "how did his Excellency take your boldness?" "As punishment he sent me to examine Gibbs' Venus." "Devil take your luck!" swore Gibbs. "I'll be bound ye made it none too short. Gaze at the smug look on the dandy's face."
Against Miss Pett there appears to have been no suspicion in Woking at that time and for the matter of that," concluded Mr. Stobb drily, "I don't know that there is now." "You have some yourself?" suggested Brereton. "I went into things further," answered Mr. Stobb, with the ghost of a wink. "I found out how things were left by Stilman.
And at the end of this mark there were plain traces of a struggle the soft, easily yielding stuff was disturbed, kicked about, upheaved, but as Brereton at once recognized, it was impossible to trace footprints in it. "That's where it must have been," said Garthwaite. "You see there's a bit of a path there.
No sooner was it upon the road than Brereton spurred up alongside of his superior, and, saluting, said in a dropped voice: "Your Excellency, I had something of moment to say to the Merediths, but 't was impossible to get private word, with all the idlers and racketers and Jack-a-dandies of the army running in and out upon them. May I not turn back? I will overtake you ere many hours."
It was Billy Lee who finally interrupted them. "You'll 'scuse me, Gen'l an' Missy Janice," he called, apologetically, from the opening in the hedge, "but Lady Washington dun send me to 'splain dat if she delay de dinner any mo' dat Gen'l Brereton suttinly be late at de cote-martial."
Bagby had the grace to grow a brick red at this revelation and home thrust, and he began an attempted explanation. But Brereton, who had helped both his charges to the ground, did not let them give ear to it.
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