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The Challoners left by the Pacific Express next morning, and during the evening Captain Sedgwick stood talking to Millicent, who had stopped a few moments in passing, near a pillar in the entrance hall of the hotel. It was characteristic of him that he wore evening dress, though a number of the other guests did not, but it displayed his fine, symmetrical figure.
She took my hand and hurried me with her downstairs, and in another moment we were both in the drawing-room, receiving and saying polite nothings to the Everards and Challoners, who had all arrived together, resplendent in evening costume. Amy Everard, I thought, looked a little tired and fagged, though she rejoiced in a superb "arrangement" by Worth of ruby velvet and salmon-pink.
She let him go, but he had always had a place in her heart, and now they were firm and trusted friends. During her stay at Saguenay, Mrs. Chudleigh made two or three attempts to extract some further information about the Challoners but without success, and one day, soon after she had left, Mrs. Keith sent Millicent for a list of steamer sailings.
But who could it be? Why should I have, we have for Dulcie suffered equally an enemy? What reason could anyone have for wishing to make Dulcie, or me, or any of the Challoners, unhappy? Everybody I knew who knew them seemed to love them, particularly the tenantry.
When the Colonel made his appearance, which he did very shortly, he too was "taken off his feet," as the saying is, by Zara's loveliness, and the same effect was produced on the Challoners, who soon afterwards joined us in a body. Mrs.
In spite of this, he was acquitted at the inquiry, perhaps because he was a favorite 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.
How much impression they have made on him I cannot tell, but he's fond of you, Dick, and in trouble. It's a cruel position for an honourable man with traditions like those of the Challoners' behind him." "That's true; I hate to think of it. You know what I owe to him and Bertram." "He's old," continued Mrs. Keith.
I suppose you have seen the Challoners? Such a number of English people in the town! But isn't this a curious place to spend the evening?" "It's cool," said Mrs. Keith. "I like fresh air." Mrs. Chudleigh, glanced towards Millicent, who was distributing a basket of peaches among a group of untidy, emigrant children. "That's a charming picture, isn't it?
You can see that she's sorry for the dirty little beggars. They don't look as if they'd had a happy time; and a liner's crowded steerage isn't a luxurious place." Mrs. Keith smiled as Millicent came toward her with a few of the small children clustered round her. "I have some English letters to write," she said; "and I think we'll go in." The Challoners did not leave for the West the next day.
"Whom are you looking at so hard?" Mrs. Ashborne inquired. "Bertram Challoner and his bride," said Mrs. Keith. "They're coming toward us yonder." Then a curious thing happened, for a man who was crossing the street seemed to see the Challoners and, turning suddenly, stepped back behind a passing cab.
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