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"You're fooling, Forel, and you would never disclose who your client was that lent us the money." "No," said Forel resolutely. "Nor do I mean to. Sit down again, Harry, and don't get fancying things." Alton moved a pace forward with a dark flush in his face. "Forel," he said, "where did all those dollars come from?"
Forel was not at home, though the blaze of lights and music made it evident that she was entertaining a good many guests. He had also waited a considerable time for a banker who had been apparently willing to make him certain advances a few days earlier, and when he came to complete the transaction, raised wholly unexpected difficulties.
"No," said Alton, with a curious vibration in his voice. "Well," said Forel, "I meant to. No doubt he felt it his duty, but Hettie seemed to fancy there was something else. Still, I think she was mistaken, because he said good-bye to us when he went away, and we heard since that he had sailed for another station." "He was a good man," said Alton gravely. Forel glanced at him curiously.
Forel wondered as she glanced at the girl opposite her across the table. Alice Deringham had like the rest been stirred out of her reticence, and now she seemed almost transfigured with the warm flush in her cheeks and the pride discernible through the softness in her eyes. The beat of hoofs stopped presently, and a man came hastily through the verandah.
Deringham, who was slightly bewildered by something in her attitude, sighed with relief, and then turned with the grotesque resemblance of a smile in his face to greet Forel, who came in. "Gillard has been called away south on business and has sent me word he can let me have the places at the opera-house for both nights," he said.
There was silence for several moments which was broken by a rattle, and a stream of whisky and seltzer dripped from the table. "Hallo!" said Forel. "Has anything upset you, Deringham?" Deringham stood up with a little harsh laugh, dabbing It the breast of his shirt with his handkerchief.
"Not until later do ants learn to distinguish between friend and foe; not until later do they realise that they are members of a single ant community on behalf of which they have to fight." Forel next presents the fact, even more surprising, that the intensity of the warrior instinct is directly proportional to the size of the collectivity.
Nothing better has been done in the province, and the man who planned it for you had courage as well as genius. It is a most daring and successful piece of engineering." A little flush crept into the bronzed faces, and Mrs. Forel noticed the brightness in Alice Deringham's eyes, for the man who had spoken was a famous engineer.
"Well," said Forel slowly, "anything that upsets one is apt to prove perilous in cases like his, and I rather fancy that Deringham had a quarrel with Hallam. They had dealings together, and I think Deringham must have lost a good deal of money. You will not, however, mention it to anybody." Mrs. Forel looked at her husband curiously, "No, of course," she said.
"Nobody knows where he gets it from except that it isn't China, but he seems to think it's my duty to buy it from him, and the rasp of it brings the bush back to me. Makes one smell the cedars, and see the lake flashing, and I'm very tired of the city." Mrs. Seaforth laughed as she glanced at the bottles Forel was pitching out of a box, for as yet he had not found one with anything in it.
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