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I didn't know whether it was Gladwyne or Lisle; but I held on and a side-swing of the current brought us both ashore. Gladwyne, of course, must have gone under after being badly damaged among the rocks." "There's only one place where he could have landed and I searched it while you were away," Crestwick said gravely. "Why did you go in after him?" Nasmyth asked Batley.
Gladwyne profits, my dead partner bore the shame. But do you believe the man meant to let his cousin die?" "No," Nasmyth answered sharply, "that's unthinkable! But I blame him almost as much as if he had done so. Besides his duty to George, he had a duty to himself and to the family the honorable men and women who had kept the name clean before him.
Lisle saw a silvery gleam in a strip of less-troubled water behind a boulder and taking up his rod he cast the gaudy fly across the ripple. There was a jar, a musical clinking of the reel, and when Nasmyth waded in with ready net all thought of Gladwyne passed out of the Canadian's mind.
The task with which he had saddled himself was an exceedingly unpleasant one and might afterward make it more difficult for him to accomplish the purpose that had brought him to England, but he meant to carry it out. As it happened, he met Mrs. Gladwyne at Millicent's, where he called, and he spent an uncomfortable half-hour in her company.
"I regret that we have added to your anxiety," he began. "Of course, transport is a serious difficulty I've had some little experience of this kind of thing." "In the field?" Lisle asked bluntly. "I've had a suspicion of it. Then why didn't you remember?" He saw Batley's smile, for they were standing by the packers' fire. "Oh," he added, "you needn't trouble to shield Gladwyne.
"Against the answer you expect, there's the fact that Vernon made the longer journey," Nasmyth objected. "It doesn't count for much. Was Clarence Gladwyne accustomed to roughing it and going without his dinner? Would you expect him to survive where you would perish, even if you had a little more to bear?" "No," confessed Nasmyth; "he's rather a self-indulgent person."
After all, Mrs. Gladwyne was pleading for what she believed would benefit her only son; but the girl was very human and a trace of her resentment remained. It was, however, obvious that Mrs. Gladwyne expected some response. "I can venture to promise that I won't be openly rude," Millicent agreed with a faint smile. "Can't you go a little beyond that, my dear?"
On the second day Batley showed signs of distress, and Nasmyth and Crestwick were walking very wearily, but Lisle held on at a merciless pace. It was essential that he should reach the cache before Gladwyne could interfere with it. Toward evening, Nasmyth made an effort and caught up with Lisle. "How would Clarence get across to the second cache on the other side of the water?" he asked.
Why didn't Gladwyne rearrange the caches afterward? He went back, you know." "They're easily answered. It was some time before I heard of Vernon's death and met the Hudson Bay man in Victoria I'd been away in the North.
"You needn't tell me that again! It's a waste of time; I'm not going to discuss it. Face the difficulty, whatever it is. Do you mean that you can't warn off Batley?" Gladwyne saw that she would insist on a definite answer and in desperation he told the truth. "It's out of the question." It was a shock to her.
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