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It might have been better if you had gone on to our friends, the Fords, at Vancouver." Alice Deringham laughed a little. "I don't think you need worry. Mr. Alton will, no doubt, take us in," she said. "A little primitive barbarity would not be unpleasant as a novelty." A trace of something very like anger crept into Deringham's eyes.
Deringham, who was slightly bewildered by something in her attitude, sighed with relief, and then turned with the grotesque resemblance of a smile in his face to greet Forel, who came in. "Gillard has been called away south on business and has sent me word he can let me have the places at the opera-house for both nights," he said.
"Will you wait a moment, please?" a voice said, and the dictation broke off abruptly, while when the girl rose Alice Deringham found herself suddenly confronted with Miss Townshead. Deringham, who stood up, made her a little decorous inclination. "I am pleased to see you again," he said. The speech was apparently lost upon the girl, who did not seem to notice his daughter's greeting.
Alice Deringham watched him in silence for a few seconds and then smiled again. "It is somewhat difficult to believe it. I am sincerely sorry for Mr. Alton, but I can see no reason for intruding at Somasco now." Deringham regarded her steadily, and the girl knew it would be advisable for her to yield.
"If I could have taken you on to save the lady waiting it would have pleased me. As it is, I can't, you see." He said nothing more, but dismounting pulled the boxes out of the wagon and laid some travelling wraps upon one of them, while Miss Deringham affected not to see what he was doing. "And how long will it be before Barscombe passes?" said she.
Alice Deringham turned aside with a just perceptible gesture of impatience, which Seaforth noticed and fancied he understood, though it was not apparent to the others, and while she rode on with him, Alton appeared thoughtful as he did something to his bridle. When he had finished it he saw that his companion was smiling at him. "It seems to me there are a good many things I don't know," said he.
"Yes," he said, "I'm Charles Seaforth, better known to the boys here as the Honourable Charley, though I have no especial right to the title, and am fortunate in holding a small share in the Somasco ranch, which I owe to my partner's generosity." "Do I understand that he gave it you?" said Deringham. Seaforth nodded. "You would be near the mark if you came to that conclusion." "And is Mr.
Alice Deringham had tasted of the best that England had to offer in the shape of sport and scenery, art and music, and had grown a little tired of it all; while, when her father had announced his intention of crossing the Canadian Dominion, partly on an affair of business and partly for the benefit of his health, she had gladly accompanied him in the hope of seeing something new.
Where does it come from?" she said languidly, pointing to a distant film of vapour that drifted in a faint blue wreath along the slope of a hill. "That," said Alton, "is the Tyee mine." "I have heard of it. They find silver there?" "Yes," said Alton dryly. "They find a little." "There is silver in those mountains, then?" said Miss Deringham. Alton nodded. "Lots of it.
Deringham said nothing further, though he was sensible of a slight uneasiness, and presently went back to the house to rejoin his daughter, while the dusk was creeping across the valley when the men from the sawmill and clearing came home, and Deringham led his daughter out when he heard Alton's voice in the verandah.
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