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Leave the room, Dawkes, and close the door. Thanks! Thomson, what about this request of yours?" "I felt bound to bring the matter before you, sir," Thomson replied. "I made my application to the censor and you know the result." The Chief swung round in his chair. "Look here," he said, "the censor's department has instructions to afford you every possible assistance in any researches you make.
And that one he had still the pleasure of paying for pretty deeply. "Dawkes knows nothing of my affairs except from hearsay, Edward. I was once intimate with the man; but he served me a shabby trick, and that ended the friendship. I don't like him." "I dare say what he said was not true," said Lord Hartledon kindly. "You might as well make a confidant of me.
"Miss Ashton loses, and Maude wins!" cried the countess-dowager, executing a little dance of triumph. "Maude is the only one who wears the Oxford blue." It was true. The young Oxonian was a retiring and timid man, and none had voluntarily assumed his colours. But no one heeded the countess-dowager. "You are like a child, Hartledon, denying that your arm's damaged!" exclaimed Captain Dawkes.
Captain Dawkes was first, and was doing all he could to keep so; but when only a boat's length from the winning-post another shot past him, and won by half a length. It was the young Oxonian, Mr. Shute though indeed it does not much matter who it was, save that it was not Lord Hartledon.
"Half the follies for which I am now paying were committed when I was but a boy," he said. "One of the men now visiting here, Dawkes, persuaded me to put my name to a bill for him for fifteen hundred pounds, and I had to pay it. It hampered me for years; and in the end I know I must have paid it twice over.
I must exercise my privilege and order it served. At once, Hedges, do you hear? If Hartledon grumbles, I shall tell him it serves him right." "But where can Hartledon be?" cried Captain Dawkes. "That's what I am wondering," said Val. "He can't be on the river all this time; Carteret would have seen him in coming home." A strangely grave shade, looking almost like a prevision of evil, arose to Dr.
"You said he had come in;" and the angry woman faced round on Captain Dawkes. "You saw them going into their rooms, you said. Which was it you did, or you didn't?" "I did see Carteret make his appearance; and assumed that Lord Hartledon had gone on to his room," replied the captain, suppressing a laugh. "I am sorry to have misled your ladyship. I dare say Hart is about the house somewhere."
In his vexation, he was about to retaliate on Captain Dawkes by a little revelation on the score of his affairs, certain things that might not have redounded to that gallant officer's credit. But he arrested the words in time: he was of a kindly nature, not fond of returning ill for ill. With all his follies, Val Elster could not remember to have committed an evil act in all his life, save one.
The sparkling points of it glistened brightly on the shaggy coats of Brutus and Cassius, as they idled about the yard, waiting, with steaming mouths and slowly wagging tails, to see the cart drive off. Old Mazey went out alone and used his influence with Dawkes, who, staring in stolid amazement, put a leather cushion on the cart-seat for his fellow-traveler.
"And when they do come, they'll keep us another half-hour dressing." "I beg your ladyship's pardon they have come," interposed Captain Dawkes. "Carteret was going into his room as I came out of mine." "Time they were," grumbled the dowager. "They were not in five minutes ago, for I sent to ask." "Which of the two won the race?" inquired Lady Maude of Captain Dawkes.
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