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Hector was slain. The Trojans scoured over the plain. Victoria Street was cleared, and Big Todd was borne on a stretcher to the police-station hard by. "That fellow would have caught me a crack but for you, Heseltine," said Mr. Kilshaw. A police-superintendent rode up. "If you'd go home, gentlemen," he said, "our work would be easier. The trouble's not all over yet, I'm afraid.
Captain Heseltine said some people thought that he'd throw the whole thing up and retire into private life." "Yes, I'm sorry too," said Alicia, who lay all this while with her face away from Eleanor and towards the wall. "And then his daughter's going to be married, and, of course, can never be such a companion to him as she has been; he'll be very much alone.
Lady Eynesford and Eleanor Scaife, attended by Captain Heseltine, occupied their appointed seats; the members of the Legislative Council overflowed from their proper pen and mingled with humbler folk in the public galleries; reporters wrote furiously, and an endless line of boys bearing their slips came and went. The great hour had arrived: the battle-field was reached at last.
The whole thing was, as Captain Heseltine regretfully observed, "fizzling out," and he proposed to go home to lunch. Medland's train arrived half-an-hour later, and he came out of the station, looking round in surprise at the martial aspect of the scene. Then he smiled. "We look rather asses," whispered Heseltine. "I wonder if they did it on purpose."
Coxon detected a grin on the face of Captain Heseltine, who was sitting near, but he could not hold Sir John's grave face guilty of the Captain's grin. "I see," remarked the Captain, perhaps in order to cover the retreat of his grin, "that they've discharged the woman who was arrested last night for the murder." "Really no evidence against her," said the Chief Justice.
"It saves so much misunderstanding, if you tell everybody everything right out," continued Eleanor. "For my part," returned Heseltine, with an earnestness which he rarely displayed, "I differ utterly. I've never in my life told anybody anything without being sorry I hadn't held my tongue." "Oh, you mean your private affairs." "Well, and you? Oh, I see. You only mean other people's. Agreed, agreed!
In the second year the slow autotype process had to be abandoned for the quicker Woodburytype, by which were reproduced drawings kindly contributed by Sir J. E. Millais, Sir John Gilbert, Mr. Holman Hunt, Mr. Woolner, Mr. G. Mason, Mr. Hook, and others. Other etchings by M. Martial, Mr. Chattock, Mr. J. P. Heseltine, and Mr. Lumsden Propert appeared. Mr. Basil Champneys, Mr. W. B. Scott, and Mr.
In the Park he met Captain Heseltine, also mounted and looking very hot. The Captain mopped his face, and waved an accusing arm towards an inhospitable eucalyptus. "Call that a tree!" he said. "The beastly thing doesn't give a ha'porth of shade." "It's the best we've got," replied Kilshaw, in ironical apology for his country.
As he rose, he caught sight of Kilshaw's scornful smile, and, swearing savagely, with a sudden rush he burst the ring round him and made for the arch-enemy. Kilshaw raised his arm to shield himself, Captain Heseltine stepped forward and deftly put out his foot. Big Todd, tripped in the manner of the old football, fell heavily to the ground, striking his bullet poll on the hard road.
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