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We mean to put it right as soon as we can." "Not good enough!" remarked another. "We've got to know when." "Then I'm sorry I can't tell you. It depends on the weather." Some of them growled, and Festing felt Charnock's hand close warningly on his arm. "Won't you come into the light, boys?" the latter asked. "I'd like to know to whom I'm talking."
The other bank was easier, and for a time they had not much trouble in going down hill, but the mist was very thick, and presently the steep slope broke off close in front. Helen stopped and beckoned Festing. Looking down, he saw the wet face of a crag drop into the rolling vapor.
"Yes," said Festing, who looked disturbed. "Do you?" "Mrs. Dalton told me. You helped George when he needed help, although he had no particular claim." "He was ill and unfit for hard work." "Was that the only difficulty?" "I don't see what you mean," said Festing, with some embarrassment. "Then I'll be frank. In what kind of company did you find the lad? You see, I know something about him."
The men had stopped shouting and ran into the water at the island's lower end. Festing drifted towards them, but it looked as if he would be carried past. The drag of the rope kept him back, and his strength was going, but he braced himself for an effort and felt a helping push. Then somebody seized his hand, he was pulled forward, and felt bottom as he dropped his feet.
"The half-measure of scooping out a shallow road-bed and dumping the stuff on the incline is ruled out, because the spoil wouldn't lie and the river would sweep the dirt away. If we filled up the channel with rock, we'd turn the current on the bridge-pier." Then Charnock said something and Festing let them talk while he looked about.
They felt that something was finished; satisfactorily finished amidst well-earned praise, but done with for good. Festing looked at Helen with a comprehending smile. "You answered right; I'm not going back! Our work is waiting, here on the plains." "Ah," said Helen softly, "how much easier you make it when you call it ours!"
I met Wilkinson this afternoon." Festing knitted his brows. "Wilkinson! What do you think has brought him?" "Chance and Sadie's scheming. I've cause to suspect she forced him off his ranch, though she would probably wish she hadn't meddled if she knew she'd sent him here. As he looked surprised when he saw me, I imagine he'd no particular object in coming, except that he wanted a job."
In accordance with this order Colonel Festing marched out with a gun and rocket apparatus under Captain Rait, the Annamaboe contingent of a hundred and twenty men under their king, directed by Captain Godwin, four hundred other Fantis under Captain Broomhead, and a hundred men of the 2d West India regiment.
"Of course," said Festing, smiling. "Very much better! I'll get well remarkably fast now you have come." Helen brought a chair and for a time they engaged in happy but careless talk. Both knew there was much to be said, but Helen skilfully avoided striking a serious note. The time for that had not arrived yet. When it got dark the doctor came in and joined them at a meal.
But why d'you want to leave?" "On the whole, I think one of us had better go," Charnock answered with some dryness. "If you don't mind, I'll get off to-morrow." He started next morning, in the caboose of a returning supply train, and Festing, who went to see him off, stood for a few minutes on the snowy track while the rattle of wheels and snorting of the locomotive died away.
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