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Bunce's History of the Corporation of Birmingham . The first edition, 1795, the sixth, from which I quote, in 1800. In Benthams Works, x. 330, it is said that in 1798, 7500 copies of this book had been sold. In 1814 Colquhoun published an elaborate account of the Resources of the British Empire, showing similar qualities. Police, p. 310. Police, p. 105. Ibid. p. 13. Ibid. p. 211. Ibid. p. 136.
He was, though he did not know it, a melancholy spectacle; but his awakening was at hand. Gladys made her second call at the house in Colquhoun Street, as before, early in the day. It seemed very familiar, though it was many months since she had passed that way. It seemed a more hopeless and squalid street than she had yet thought it.
Colonel Colquhoun made arrangements to take her home as soon as she was sufficiently strong to be moved; but just at that time a small war broke out, and his regiment was one of the first to be ordered to the front. He was able to see her off, however, with other ladies of the regiment, and he telegraphed to her friends begging them to meet her at Southampton.
If that were her object, she had certainly succeeded, and it seemed to me more likely than that she should just have gone and returned for the sake of doing an unusual thing, which was the only other explanation that occurred to me. I saw Lady Adeline before I left the house, and found that Colonel Colquhoun was not staying with them, nor did she seem to know that he had been in town.
I therefore called my vakeel, and threatened him with the gravest punishment on my return to Khartoum. I wrote to Sir R. Colquhoun, H.M. Consul-General for Egypt, which letter I sent by one of the return boats; and I explained to my vakeel that the complaint to the British authorities would end in his imprisonment, and that in case of my death through violence he would assuredly be hanged.
It was four o'clock when somebody at length approached his door, knocked, and then shook the door-handle. "Hugo! Are you there?" It was Mr. Colquhoun's voice. "Can't you open the door?" Hugo hesitated a moment: then turned the key, leaving Mr. Colquhoun to enter if he pleased. He came in looking rather astonished at this mode of admittance. "So! It's sick, you are, is it?
Colquhoun heard her say, 'When a man will stop, coming in the doore, an' stoop down to give a sthroke and a scratch to the pig's back, depend on it, ma'am, him that's so friendly with a poor fellow-crathur will make ye a good husband.
I wanted to escape from that reeking room, but my muscles refused to obey me, and there I stood while: "Kreener!" repeated the husky voice, and I saw that the speaker was rising unsteadily to his feet. "You have brought him again. Why have you brought him again? He will play. He will play me a step nearer to Hell." "Brace yourself, Colquhoun," said the voice of my companion. "Brace yourself."
You will remember that O'Moy had undertaken to provide that Count Samoval's visits to Monsanto should be discontinued. About this task he had gone with all the tact of which he had boasted himself master to Colquhoun Grant. You shall judge of the tact for yourself.
Colquhoun thought it better to come and give her some account of the things that had been done during her illness, on the mere chance that she might hear and understand.
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