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Railsford, however, ignored it, and quietly taking the cigars from the case, took them away with him, leaving the case on the table. Felgate's impulse was to follow him and apologise for his ill-bred words. But his evil genius kept him back; and before bed-time arrived he not only repented of his repentance, but reproached himself for not saying a great deal more than he had.
Some of the earliest of the colonists were skilled in boatbuilding, the shipwrecked passengers on the Seaventure having constructed, on the Bermuda Islands in 1609, two pinnaces in which they sailed the 700 miles to Virginia in 1610. The Hansfords maintained a boatyard on Felgate's Creek in York County, where they both built and repaired small vessels.
The captain replied that he didn't fancy he would do it again in a hurry; and as the remainder of the company expressed positive impatience to go to the cricket-field, he let them of! with a caution, and, after seeing them started, walked moodily up to Felgate's study. Felgate was comfortably stretched on two chairs, reading a novel.
And he left him there, and proceeded, with a heart as heavy as any he had worn since he came to Grandcourt, to Felgate's study. Felgate, as we have said, had almost forgotten the existence of the sweep or the fact that he had given his name to the venture. When therefore Railsford unexpectedly walked into his study, he did not in any way connect the visit with that trivial incident.
Felgate nodded to them as he passed out, little guessing the real meaning of the affectionate smile with which they returned the greeting. "So your cold's better, youngster?" said he to Arthur. "Looks like it," replied Arthur. Felgate's first glance as he entered the room was towards the corner in which he had left his parcel.
What if now Arthur should lie under the shadow of some peril which, if it fell, must envelop him and his brother-in-law both? It seemed the only solution to Felgate's mysterious threat, and it made him profoundly uncomfortable. He felt he had not done all the might for the boy.
He had made a fool of himself, he knew, and done his best friend an injustice; consequently he felt, for once in a way, thoroughly ashamed of himself. What irritated him most of all was the loss of the articles he had so carefully treasured up as evidence against somebody. "Felgate's collared them, that's certain," said he, "and why?"
Despite Felgate's sneers, and the jealous ridicule which floated in from outside on their efforts, they felt that they stood face to face with a great chance. Their reputation as a house was on its trial; they were boycotted by the doctor, and held up as a warning to evil-doers.
"You'll have to get rid of that, Herapath," said he. "What, Smiley's pup? Why? Felgate's given me leave." "Felgate may do as he pleases. I tell you you must send him home, and Smiley too." "What!" said Arthur aghast. "Smiley too! why, Railsford knows all about Smiley, and let us have him all, last term." "But you are not going to have them this term.
West and Utie settled on either side of a bay formed by the joining of King's Creek and Felgate's Creek about four miles above modern Yorktown. The tourist who speeds along the Colonial Parkway from Jamestown to Yorktown crosses the bay within sight of the tracts granted West and Utie. Today he may drive from Jamestown to the York with comfort and safety in a few minutes.
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