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"Why, you're not going back to Glen-Ellachie to-night, surely?" Charles exclaimed, in amazement. "Lady Vandrift will be so disappointed! Besides, this business can't be arranged between two trains, do you think, Mr. Granton?" Young Granton smiled. He had an agreeable smile canny, yet open. "Oh no," he said frankly. "I didn't mean to go back. I've put up at the inn.
When she awoke it was seven o'clock in the morning, and her cutter was creeping with a smart breeze about two miles an hour, a mile from Newhaven pier. The yacht had returned to Granton, and the yawls, very low in the water, were creeping along like snails, with both sails set. The news was in Edinburgh long before they landed. They had been discerned under Inch Keith at the dawn.
I can't everywhere and always be on my guard against every dear soul of them. Yet the moment I relax my attention for one day or even when I don't relax it I am bamboozled and led a dance by that arch Mme. Picardet, or that transparently simple little minx, Mrs. Granton. She's the cleverest girl I ever met in my life, that hussy, whatever we're to call her.
An elderly man had charge of it a Mr. Parmenter. "Can I take out a book?" asked Harry. "Do you live in town?" "Yes, sir." "I don't remember seeing you before. You don't live in this village, do you?" "No, sir. I live in the lower village." "What is your name?" "Harry Walton." "I don't remember any Walton family." "My father lives in Granton. I am working for Mr. James Leavitt."
Granton was prospecting at the same time, in the self-same ridge, not very far from them, his miners had failed to discover the auriferous quartz; so our men had held their tongues about it, wisely leaving it for Charles to govern himself accordingly. "Can you dispute the boundary?" I asked. "Impossible," Charles answered. "You see, the limit is a meridian of longitude.
We left on the left hand Safahin Sensensé's village, a cluster of huts surrounded by bananas; we crossed the shallow head of the creek, all a swamp during the rains; we walked up a dwarf slope, and after half an hour we found ourselves at 'Granton. The position of Granton is not happily chosen.
A long obituary notice followed, concluding with the following paragraph: "It is given out that the marriage of the present Earl with Lady Granton has been postponed and that, after the necessary business formalities have been attended to, Captain Harry will join his regiment in Egypt for a short term.
"I am going away, Maisie," I said. "Going away, sir?" she repeated anxiously, as she came bashfully forward. "I won't be back again, Maisie. I am going for good." She looked up at me in dumb disquiet. "Maisie, Lady Rosemary Granton will be here this week-end." "Yes, sir!" she answered. "I am to have the honour of looking after her rooms." I laid my hand gently on her shoulder.
Gradually and gracefully he let us see that Lord Craig-Ellachie had sent him for the benefit of the company, but that he had come for the benefit of the Honourable David Granton. "I'm a younger son, Sir Charles," he said; "and therefore I have to feather my nest for myself. I know the ground. My father will be guided implicitly by what I advise in the matter. We are men of the world.
"Our winecups clinked and the bond was made; made for all time, George." My father's eyes lit up and he seemed to be back in the Crimea. He shook his head sadly. "And now, poor old Fred is gone. Ah, well! our dream is coming true. In a month, the maid of Granton weds the future Earl of Brammerton.
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