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'And she waving hers back? 'No, she didn't. 'Ah! 'She looked at him nothing more. I wouldn't give much for his chance. After a while Dare added musingly: 'You are a mathematician: did you ever investigate the doctrine of expectations? 'Never. 'This is a treatise on the subject, he said. 'I will teach it to you some day. The same evening Havill asked Dare to dine with him.
'In three months, I think? said Dare, looking to Havill. Havill assented. 'Five thousand pounds commission, murmured the creditor. 'Paid down, I suppose? Havill nodded. 'And the works will not linger for lack of money to carry them out, I imagine, said Dare. 'Two hundred thousand will probably be spent before the work is finished. 'There is not much doubt of it, said Havill.
The mysterious tank, whose dark waters had so repelled her at the last moment, was boarded over: a table stood on its centre, with an open quarto Bible upon it, behind which Havill, in a new suit of black, sat in a large chair. Havill held the office of deacon: and he had mechanically taken the deacon's seat as usual to-night, in the face of the congregation, and under the nose of Mr. Woodwell.
'There's no chance for me. The castle now arose before them, endowed by the rayless shade with a more massive majesty than either sunlight or moonlight could impart; and Havill sighed again as he thought of what he was losing by Somerset's rivalry. 'Well, what was the use of coming here? he asked. 'I thought it might suggest something some way of seeing the design.
Havill, who had not drunk enough to affect his reasoning, held up his glass to the light and said, 'I never can quite make out what you are, or what your age is. Are you sixteen, one-and-twenty, or twenty-seven? And are you an Englishman, Frenchman, Indian, American, or what? You seem not to have taken your degrees in these parts. 'That's a secret, my friend, said Dare.
Dare surveyed it, saying, 'Yes, I have seen that before, though I never knew why you wore it. Well, I wear a reminder also, but of a different sort. He threw open his shirt-front, and revealed tattooed on his breast the letters DE STANCY; the same marks which Havill had seen in the bedroom by the light of the moon. The captain rather winced at the sight.
Havill had recovered some coolness. 'You could not use it upon me, he said sardonically, watching Dare. 'It would be risking your neck for too little an object. 'I did not think you were shrewd enough to see that, replied Dare carelessly, as he returned the revolver to its place. 'Well, whether you have outwitted me or no, you will keep the secret as long as I choose. 'Why? said Havill.
So each detachment lumbered slowly by, all eyes martially forward, except when wandering in quest of female beauty. 'He's a fine fellow, is he not? said Dare, denoting by a nod a mounted officer, with a sallow, yet handsome face, and black moustache, who came up on a bay gelding with the men of his battery. 'What is he? said Havill. 'A captain who lacks advancement. 'Do you know him?
A blue gleam shone from the object as Dare held it in the moonlight, and Havill perceived that it was a small revolver.
Havill ever been led to expect the commission? he asked. 'He may have guessed that he would have it. I have spoken of my intention to him more than once. Somerset thought over his conversation with Havill. Well, he did not like Havill personally; and he had strong reasons for suspecting that in the matter of architecture Havill was a quack.
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