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It's unpleasant, but here the thing is, as I see it Batley's not the kind of man Clarence would willingly associate with, and to give Clarence his dues, all his instinct must make him recoil from the fellow's game with Crestwick. Considering that he's apparently making no protest against it, this is proof to me that Batley has some pretty firm hold on him." "What's Batley's profession?"
"You're taking risks," he continued. "There's legislation on the subject of minors' debts; Crestwick began to deal with you before he was twenty-one, and he's still in his trustees' hands. If he made trouble, I'm inclined to think some of your transactions would look very much like conspiracy." "I know my man.
"No," she laughed mischievously; "I think you're loyal; and there are situations from which it's difficult to extricate oneself. Didn't you find it so, for example, when you declined to come here with Nasmyth, because Miss Crestwick had pressed you to go to Marple's?"
It was impossible to doubt that Gladwyne had seen the accident, but the chestnut rushed straight at the shattered hurdle, teeth bare, nostrils dilated, head stretched forward, and Crestwick thrilled with horror. The fallen horse was struggling, rolling upon its rider, just beyond the fence; but Gladwyne did nothing, except sit ready for the leap.
"Bella says her wedding won't be until the early summer and she's thinking of making Carew bring her out to Banff or Glacier he came out shooting or climbing once before. Then she'll endeavor to look us up." He lighted his pipe and they sat in silence for a while. Then Crestwick rose and bringing a blanket from the tent wrapped it about him and lay down in the lee of the boulder near the fire.
The thought of it stirred her to indignation; she would not have Lisle treated in that fashion. After sitting still for half an hour, she rose with a gesture of impatience and went into the house. On the same evening Bella Crestwick felt impelled to lecture her brother after dinner.
Lisle woke soon after this and asked one or two half-intelligible questions, but they gave him no information and he went to sleep again; then Crestwick arrived with more fuel and Nasmyth took the first watch while his companions rested. He was very cold, and now and then he saw Batley, who had discarded most of his wet clothes, wake up for a few moments and shiver.
The straps, when Lisle let them down, reached several feet from the top, and Batley bade Nasmyth and Crestwick ascend. They managed it with assistance from Lisle, who seized them from above. Then Batley called up to them. "I'm going to test the tackle. Give me a hand up as soon as I'm over the bulge!"
One could almost fancy that some mysterious agency were working upon us through you." He did not wish her to pursue this train of thought too far. "I've promised to take Jim Crestwick back with me," he said. "I'm going as soon as I'm fit to get about." "Going back, in a few weeks?" "Yes. In many ways, I'm sorry; but I've had some letters that show it's needful. Business calls."
"I don't think they'll give you any trouble; but since you got rid of Nasmyth's tent, where will you and Crestwick sleep?" "Jim and I can make a shelter of some kind; we're used to the bush." "What have you done to the lad?" Millicent asked. "I can hardly realize the change in him; he's a different being." "I've merely given him a chance he would hardly have had in England.
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