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I was not proof against the civil sarcasm of the chairman's manner. Most intolerable of all, however, was the quiet smile lurking about the corners of Benjamin Somers's mouth, and the half-triumphant, half-malicious gleam in the eyes of the under-secretary. The man was evidently puzzled and somewhat alarmed. His looks seemed furtively to interrogate me. Who was I? What did I want?
On the Committee were the Director of Public Instruction, the Collector, the Executive Engineer, the Superintendent of Duri Jail, the Educational Inspector, the Cantonment Magistrate, Major Jackson of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and a number of Indian gentlemen. To the Chairman's inquiries Moussa Isa made the usual replies. He had been mortally affronted and had endeavoured to avenge the insult.
"Sometimes the twisting comes on, but when I wake up after it I'm all right." The prison surgeon, under the chairman's direction, put his ear to the convict's chest, and then went over and whispered to the chairman. "I thought so," said that gentleman. "Now, take this man to the hospital. Put him to bed where the sun will shine on him, and give him the most nourishing food."
"Look at him!" I exclaimed. "Look at his face! I ask no better witness to the truth of my words." The chairman's brow darkened. "Mr. Raikes," he said, sternly, "if you know anything you had better speak." Vainly trying to wrench himself from my grasp, the under-secretary stammered out an incoherent denial. "Let me go," he said. "I know nothing you have no right to detain me let me go!"
Not admiration merely, not affection alone something almost fierce behind the half-protecting tenderness with which she watched the chairman's duel with the mob. Borrodaile lifted a hand people were far too engrossed, he knew, to notice and he laid it on Vida's, which had tightened on the back of the bench. 'My dear! he said wondering and low as one would to wake a sleepwalker.
Quite half the members were dreaming too, and he wondered what thoughts were moving secretly within them. But the chairman was not dreaming. He never loosed his grasp of the matter in hand. Nor did the earnest young blonde by the chairman's side who took down in stenography the decisions of the committee.
The chairman's report was against the adoption of the President's recommendation because a subject of such vital interest to the States ought not to be left to Congress.
They passed immediately to the nominations, and there was the same unanimity all down the ticket until the nominations for the county auditor began. A small man lifted his hand and cried, "I nominate James McGann of Rock for auditor." There was a little silence followed by murmurs of disapproval. The first false note had been struck. Someone seconded the motion. The chairman's gavel fell.
He runs the big hotel down to the capital city. And where does he get money to buy automobiles with? I know. It's out of selling rum over his bar and there's a law in the State constitution that makes selling rum a jail offence. But you don't see him in jail, do you?" Astonishment that changed to fury nearly paralyzed the honorable chairman's tongue while Niles proceeded that far.
Jog was not one of your conceited shots, who never fired but when he was sure of killing; on the contrary, he always let drive far or near; and even if he shot a hare, which he sometimes did, with the first barrel, he always popped the second into her, to make sure. The chairman's shooting afforded amusement to the neighbourhood.
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