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I could do no less than go up and see what I could do for the poor fellow who was pretty well gone when I saw him. I seemed to remember having seen him before and when looking round for some identification I discovered his name I readily recalled the circumstance. "It was George Gathercole, who had returned from South America.
I think so!" and screening her empty card, wrote on it the name of Gathercole, spelling it passionately in the district that he proposed, about the second extra. But when the youth had murmured that it was hot, and passed, she relapsed into her attitude of hopeless expectation, into her patient, sourish smile.
He had satisfied T. X. and allayed his suspicions. He would get Fisher out of the way that night and make sure. The voice from the hall below was loud and gruff. Who could it be! Then he heard Fisher's foot on the stairs and the valet entered. "Will you see Mr. Gathercole now!" "Mr. Gathercole!" Kara breathed a sigh of relief and his face was wreathed in smiles. "Why, of course.
He did not attempt to explain who the devils were or under what circumstances he was brought to this unhappy pass, but changed the subject definitely. Sauntering round the cosy room he followed the bookshelf which filled one wall and stopped now and again to examine some title. Presently he drew forth a stout volume. "'Wild Brazil'," he read, "by George Gathercole-do you know Gathercole?"
The company can tell me no more than that he had booked, but whether he shipped on the City of the Argentine or not, they do not know." "I can tell you this about Gathercole," said John slowly and thoughtfully, "that he was a man who would not hurt a fly. He was incapable of killing any man, being constitutionally averse to taking life in any shape.
Fisher took the card from the salver and read, "Mr. George Gathercole, Junior Travellers' Club." "I'll see this gentleman," he said, with a sudden brisk interest. He found the visitor standing in the hall. He was a man who would have attracted attention, if only from the somewhat eccentric nature of his dress and his unkempt appearance.
Ah! they smiled, but their eyes stabbed like the eyes of an offended swan; they longed to pluck young Gathercole by the slack of his dandified breeches, and drag him to their daughters the jackanapes! And all the cruelties and hardness of life, its pathos and unequal chances, its conceit, self-forgetfulness, and patience, were presented on the battle-field of this Kensington ball-room.
"If that were true, then, Gathercole could not have come to London." "He may have taken another boat," said T. X., "and I cabled to the Steamship Company without any great success. Apparently Gathercole was an eccentric sort of man and lived in terror of being overcrowded. It was a habit of his to make provisional bookings by every available steamer.
I feel that anything less will neither rehabilitate me in your esteem, nor secure for me the remnants of my shattered self-respect. "I am hoping you will dine with me next week and meet a most interesting man, George Gathercole, who has just returned from Patagonia, I only received his letter this morning having made most remarkable discoveries concerning that country.
I paid the rent in advance and since I dropped all the eccentricities I had assumed to support the character of Gathercole, I must have impressed the owner, who took me without references. "I had several suits of new clothes made, not in London," he smiled, "but in Manchester, and again I made myself as trim as possible to avoid after-identification.
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