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Updated: June 11, 2025
"I heard that the dean found fault, the last time the exhibition fell, and said favour should never be shown again, so long as he was Dean of Helstonleigh," said Harry Huntley, when the clergy were beyond hearing, continuing the sentence he had been interrupted in. "I say that, with fair play, it will be Channing's; failing Channing, it will be mine; failing me, it will be Yorke's."
It was the first day of Helstonleigh Assizes; that is, the day on which the courts of law began their sittings.
"Roland" and Hamish spoke more gravely than was his wont "you are starting upon a wild-goose scheme." "It is not," said Roland; "why do you preach up nonsense? If the worst came to the worst, I should come back to Carrick, and he'd set me on my legs again. I tell you, Hamish, I have a hundred reasons to urge me away from Helstonleigh." "Is this carpet-bag all your luggage?"
The bells ceased; the fine organ pealed out and there are few finer organs in England than that of Helstonleigh the vergers with their silver maces, and the decrepit old bedesmen in their black gowns, led the way to the choir, the long scarlet trains of the judges held up behind: and places were found for all. The Rev. John Pye began the service; it was his week for chanting.
He had been into the country, and was taking Helstonleigh on his way back to town; had stayed in it a day or two for the purpose of seeing Martin Pope, who was an old friend, and of being introduced to Hamish Channing. That shy feeling of reticence, which is the characteristic of most persons whose genius is worth anything, had induced Hamish to bury all this in silence.
"Give one of my cards to the senior boy, Roberts. My compliments to the head-master, and I beg he will grant the boys a holiday." Roberts did as he was bid he also had been to Helstonleigh before with his master and delivered the card and message to Gaunt.
Country courts of law are not always conducted according to orthodox rules, nor was that of Helstonleigh. There would be another and a more formal examination before the committal of the prisoner for trial if committed he should be. A few unimportant questions were put to Hamish, and then he was asked whether he saw the letter in question.
"How shall I get myself up, Bywater?" asked he, complaisantly. "With horns and a tail?" "Horns and a tail be bothered!" returned Hurst. "It must be like a real ghost, all white and ghastly." "Of course it must," acquiesced Bywater. "I know a boy in our village that they served out like that," interposed Bill Simms, who was a country lad, and boarded in Helstonleigh.
It almost seemed, to Mr. Channing's grateful heart, as if the weather had prolonged its genial warmth on purpose for him. A more charming autumn had never been known at Borcette, and up to the very hour of Mr. Channing's departure, there were no signs of winter. Taking it as a whole, it had been the same at Helstonleigh.
Channing was already beginning to be thankful that suspense, at any rate, was over. He was the head of an office or it may be more correct to say the head of the Helstonleigh branch of it, for the establishment was a London one a large, important concern, including various departments of Insurance. Hamish was in the same office; and since Mr.
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