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About three then if that suits you! Good-bye!" He smiled his pleasant, boyish smile, and departed. But as he raced back from Fairharbour in his little two-seater car to meet his young fiancée on the downs, the memory of Sheila's word came back to him and he frowned again.
"Nothing I mean nothing serious. I often get my hands scratched." "Why don't you tell me the truth?" said Jake. Maud looked up from her letter. "It is as I thought. Charlie wants us to go down to Fairharbour to-morrow. He is getting together a luncheon party on board the yacht. The Melroses will be there and some of the polo people staying at The Anchor.
"Oh, they're horrors!" declared Mrs. Fielding. "They fling stones at the car if we go within half-a-mile of them. And they are such a drunken set. Go round the other way, Jack, round by Fairharbour! Miss Moore will enjoy that." "Thank you," said Juliet, with her friendly smile. "I am enjoying it very much."
Probably he had neither in any appreciable degree. It was only the caprice of the moment that ever moved him. So his friends said. He evidently found his new toy attractive, and he would not return until he wearied of it. Meantime, the summer crowds came and went at Fairharbour. The Anchor Hotel was crowded with visitors, and Sheila and her father began to talk of departure for Scotland.
"A matter of opinion!" said Fielding. "How would you like to go over and see the cricket at Fairharbour this afternoon?" She gave him a quick look. "Oh, is that the alternative to the races?" He frowned. "I have already told you the races are out of the question." "I see," said Juliet thoughtfully. "Then I am afraid the cricket-match is also unless Mrs. Fielding wants to go."
We spread the net too openly. Well," he heaved a sigh, "we live and learn." He turned to the table and took up his riding whip. "I suppose my wife will be in bed and sulk all day because I vetoed the Graydown Races." "Oh, was that the trouble?" said Juliet. He nodded gloomily. "I hate the set she consorts with at these shows. There are some of the Fairharbour set impossible people!
He began to laugh again suddenly and cynically the bitter laugh of a man who hides his soul; and Larpent leaned back in his chair again, as if he recognized that the discussion was over. "I don't suppose anyone will blame you for it," he said. "No one will have the chance," said Saltash. The polo-ground at Fairharbour was reckoned as one of the greatest attractions the town possessed.
They talked about the horses, about Jake and his recent victories, about the season at Fairharbour, about the Melroses' plans for the winter. When questioned by the General on this subject, Saltash declared airily that he never made any. "If I do, I never stick to them, so what's the use?" he said. "How weak of you!" said Maud.
The annual flower-show at Fairharbour was one of the chief events of the district, and entailed such a gathering of the County as Vera Fielding would not for worlds have missed. It also entailed the donning of beautiful garments which was an even greater attraction than the first.
I've been anxious about myself several times lately." "Come on rather suddenly, hasn't it?" suggested Jake. Saltash nodded. "It's old age, I fancy. Anyhow I've a notion for doing Bunny a good turn. The boy can have play as well as work. He can join the polo-club at Fairharbour. I'll introduce him." "And where will he live?" asked Jake. "With the old Bishops of course.
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