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I have done my best, but my colleagues, the other consuls, are busy with Lord Eglington." David turned his head away for an instant. Strange how that name sent a thrill through him, stirred his blood! He did not answer the Consul-General, and the latter continued: "Is there any hope? Is the breach with Kaid complete?" David smiled gravely. "We shall see presently.
Shall I have better judgment than the chancellories of Europe and England and Lord Eglington?" "Excellency, you know what moves other nations; but it is for Egypt to act for herself. You ask me why I did not go to the Effendina. I come to you because I know that you could circumvent the Effendina, even if he sent ten thousand men. It is the way in Egypt."
He supposed, however, that Luke had gone to reprove the other for a wasteful and wandering existence; for desertion of that Quaker religion to which his grandfather, the third Earl of Eglington, had turned in the second half of his life, never visiting his estates in Ireland, and residing here among his new friends to his last day. This listener John Fairley was his name kept his own counsel.
Their last words had been spoken at the Meeting-house, when he gave Faith to her care. That scene came back to her now, and a flush crept slowly over her face and faded away again. She was recalling, too, the afternoon of that day when she and David had parted in the drawing-room of the Cloistered House, and Eglington had asked her to sing.
For the like of her goes mad with hurting, and the mad cut with a big scythe." "Has thee seen Lord Eglington?" "Once before I left these parts and often in London." Her voice was constrained; she seemed not to wish to speak of him. "Is it true that Jasper Kimber is to stand against him for Parliament?" "I do not know. They say my lord has to do with foreign lands now. If he helps Mr.
Suppose he says no, and " "Right's right. Give him the chance, my lord. How can you know, unless you tell him the truth?" "Do you like living, Soolsby?" "Do you want to kill me, my lord?" There was a dark look in Eglington's face. "But answer me, do you want to live?" "I want to live long enough to see the Earl of Eglington in his own house." "Well, I've made that possible.
After a moment he continued: "Do you mind my smoking?" Soolsby did not reply, but sat down again. He watched Eglington light a cigar and stretch out his hands to the wood fire with an air of comfort. A silence followed. Eglington appeared to forget the other's presence, and to occupy himself with thoughts that glimmered in the fire. At last Soolsby said moodily: "What have you come for, my lord?"
From his laboratory the laboratory in which his father had worked, in which he had lost his life Eglington had seen the trim, graceful figure. He watched it till it moved into the wooded path. Then he left his garden, and, moving across a field, came into the path ahead of her. Walking swiftly, he reached the old mill, and waited.
Eglington himself was haunted by a spectre which touched his elbow by day, and said: "You are not the Earl of Eglington," and at night laid a clammy finger on his forehead, waking him, and whispering in his ear: "If Soolsby had touched the wire, all would now be well!" And as deep as thought and feeling in him lay, he felt that Fate had tricked him Fate and Hylda.
Eglington offered to introduce David to some notable people, but he said that he must go he was fatigued after his journey. He had no wish to be lionised. As he left the salon, the band was playing a tune that made him close his eyes, as though against something he would not see. The band in Kaid's Palace had played it that night when he had killed Foorgat Bey.
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