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Austin and Margaret should prepare to start for Warwickshire at the beginning of the following week, when Clement would be freed from all engagements to Messrs. Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby. Margaret had waited very patiently for this time, in which Clement would be free to give her all his help in that awful task which lay before her the discovery of Henry Dunbar's guilt.
At sunset they returned to the cabin. Lennox led his rather sorry-looking animal by the bridle, and trusting to its meekness of aspect, devoted his attention wholly to his companion. "Thet's Nath Dunbar's critter," commented "Mis'" Harney, standing at the door. "They've powerful poor 'commodations fur boardin', but I reckon Nath must 'a' tuk him in."
Dunbar's title of fame is not so light as this. He was one of the greatest of the followers of Chaucer, a master of melody, in some points scarcely inferior to the master himself whose praise he celebrates as "Of oure Inglisch all the light Surmounting every tong terrestrial Alls far as Mayis morrow dois mydnyght."
Laura Dunbar's frank good-nature and reckless generosity were well remembered upon this occasion; and every creature in Lisford was bent upon doing her honour. But this aggravating rain balked everybody. What was the use of throwing wet dahlias and flabby chrysanthemums into the puddles through which the bride must tread, heiress though she was?
"What's that?" snapped Rogers, leaping up. "Stand by there!" The sound of the whistle grew near and nearer; then came a voice that of Sergeant Sowerby hailing them through the fog. "DUNBAR'S IN! But the gang have escaped! They've got to a motor launch twenty yards down, on the end of the creek"... But already the police boat was away. "Let her go!" shouted Rogers "close inshore!
While I was at the camp, supping one evening with the officers of Colonel Dunbar's regiment, he represented to me his concern for the subalterns, who, he said, were generally not in affluence, and could ill afford, in this dear country, to lay in the stores that might be necessary in so long a march, through a wilderness, where nothing was to be purchased.
Such a confusion, in Greece, makes it necessary for the wise son of Zeus to seek information, as in the Hymn to Hermes, from an old clown. This medley of ideas, in the mind of a civilised poet, who believes that Apollo is all-knowing in the counsels of eternity, is as truly mythological as Dunbar's God who laughs his heart sore at an ale-house jest.
A fort was built, which was likewise called Fort Cumberland, and a camp formed at Will's-Creek. On the fourteenth of January of this year, major-general Brad-dock, with colonel Dunbar's and colonel Halket's regiments of foot, sailed from Cork, in Ireland, for Virginia, where they all landed safe before the end of February.
Dunbar's face changed to an awful livid hue: and Arthur Lovell, looking at his client at this moment, saw the change. It was the first time he had seen any evidence of fear either in the face or manner of Henry Dunbar. "I will not see her," exclaimed Mr. Dunbar; "I never heard Wilmot speak of any daughter. This woman is some impudent impostor, who wants to extort money out of me.
Moved by some unaccountable impulse, Helen extended her hand to Leroux, who took it quietly in his own and held it, looking down at the slim fingers as though he derived strength and healing from their touch. "Poor boy," she said softly. Detective-Sergeant Sowerby was seated in Dunbar's room at New Scotland Yard.
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