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"We may go West to-morrow, though we haven't decided yet. I've no doubt we shall see you again to-night or at breakfast." After a few pleasant words the Challoners passed on, and Mrs. Keith looked after them thoughtfully. "Bertram has changed in the last few years," she said. "I heard that he had malaria in India, and that perhaps accounts for it, but he shows signs of his mother's delicacy.
As soon as the soup was handed round, tongues were loosened, and the Challoners, who had been gazing at everything in almost open-mouthed astonishment, began to relieve their feelings by warm expressions of unqualified admiration, in which Colonel and Mrs. Everard were not slow to join. "I do say, and I will say, this beats all I've ever seen," said good Mrs.
The newcomer was about thirty years of age, of average height, and strongly made. His face was deeply sunburned and he had eyes of a curious dark-blue with a twinkle in them and dark lashes, though his hair was fair. As he drew nearer, Blanche was struck by something that suggested the family likeness of the Challoners.
He knew that Horace had often complained bitterly of Jimmy's extravagance knew that there had often been angry scenes between the two Challoners; but he could not recall having heard of anything actually to Jimmy's discredit. And, anyway, surely no man on earth could ever treat this little girl badly, even supposing even supposing
In spite of this, he was acquitted at the inquiry, perhaps because he was a favourite and Colonel Challoner was well known upon the frontier, but the opinion of the mess was against him. He left the service and the Challoners never speak of him." "I once met Lieutenant Blake," Millicent broke in with a flush in her face.
This much was a matter of fact, but Harding surmised that the man, finding Blake more inclined to thwart than assist him, would be glad to get rid of him. With Blake out of the way, the Challoners, father and son, would be at his mercy; and it unfortunately looked as if his wishes might be gratified. Harding, however, meant to make a determined effort to save his comrade.
It's possible I'm what gardeners call a sport; a throwback to some inferior type. There may have been a weakling even among the Challoners." "I have dreaded that there was one in the present generation," the Colonel answered with stern gravity. "But we get no farther. Do you deny the stories these people have told me?" Blake felt that his task was hard.
Bertram had shown timidity in his younger days Challoner remembered that they had had some trouble in teaching him to ride and there was no doubt that his was a highly-strung and nervous temperament. He had not the calm which marked the Challoners in time of strain.
Oswald had been east, Oswald had even been in the Berkshires before himself. Oswald Why it was Oswald who had suggested that he should go there go where she still was. Why this second coincidence, if there were no tie if the Challoners and Oswald were as far apart as they seemed and as conventionalities would naturally place them.
"My wife; she died in Simla twenty years ago," said Challoner gravely, and passing on, stopped before a water-colour drawing of his son. It had been painted when Bertram was young, and he had his mother's dreamy look. Mrs. Chudleigh missed the hardness of expression that marked the Challoners. "A sketch rather than a finished study, but there's talent in it," she remarked.
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