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No, I expect she sent him. A smirk upon the invalid's face showed he shared the thought. 'By the way, Fielding continued, 'talking of Miss Le Mesurier, did you ever meet a man called Gorley? 'No. There was a Gorley who was engaged to her. Is that the man? 'Yes. I heard rather a strange story about him. He went out to Africa, you know. Mallinson lifted himself on his elbow.
But in spite of his efforts to appreciate its actuality the incident grew more unsubstantial the further he progressed in its narration, and he ended it abruptly. 'Gorley was properly tried, he said 'his relations testified to the justice of his trial and he was executed in accordance with the verdict. Clarice sat motionless after he had ended. Drake watched the flames sparkle in her gray eyes.
Drake was still holding the ring, and he said slowly: 'You remember that afternoon I told you about' he hesitated for a second 'Gorley? Clarice looked up in surprise. 'Yes, she said. 'You were wearing this ring. You hid your face in your hands. It was the last thing I saw of you. She lowered her eyes from his face, and said, with a certain timidity, 'He gave it to me.
Clarice spent the week in defining the relationship in which she and Drake were henceforth to stand towards each other. They were to be animated by a stern spirit of duty, by the same spirit, in fact, which had compelled Drake to court-martial Gorley in Africa, and subsequently to detail the episode to her. Duty was to keep them apart.
Against Gorley's troops no charge could be sustained; they had only obeyed orders. But Gorley he court-martialled, and the result has been described. This was the incident which Drake was unwilling to commit to the discretion of the editor of the Meteor.
We simply told her that Gorley had died near Boruwimi. But I fancy that she suspected we were concealing something. Perhaps our avoidance of the subject gave her the hint, or it may have been Mrs. Willoughby. 'Mrs. Willoughby? 'She is related to the Gorley family as well as to us. It was through her Clarice first met Gorley, he explained, and went on.
It was not surprising, then, that Gorley, on hearing of Drake's intended march to Boruwimi, should wish to take service under his command. He called upon Drake with that request, was confronted with the current story, and invited to disprove it. Gorley read his man shrewdly, and confessed the truth of the charge without an attempt at mitigation.
Probably he had gone to Gorley with Miss Charlotte's broken glasses. Having made quite sure that she had the place to herself, Poppy carefully deposited her can on the ground, and ran to a corner where she had seen some tools stacked. There were a spade, a large fork, a rake, and a little fork.
'You are aware, I suppose, why Gorley left England? Drake nodded assent. 'The engagement was broken off then and there. And Clarice at that time did not seem to take it much to heart. I was inclined to believe that the whole affair had been just a girl's whim. Indeed, in spite of her illness, I am not certain now that that isn't the truth. She may have had some notion of reforming him.
He had been greatly grieved because no stone marked her grave, only a tangle of rose-briers. So he bought a stone, and in the night before Decoration Day he and two of Uncle Buck's grandsons went to the Gorley burying-ground and raised it to the memory of sweet Pauline.
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