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To her family she remarked with detachment that you saw hardly anything of Lorne Murchison now, he was so taken up with his old election; and to Hesketh she confided her fear that politics did interfere with friendship, whatever he might say. He said a good deal, he cited lofty examples; but the only agreement he could get from her was the hope that the estrangement wouldn't be permanent.
A good road, white and dry, and sloping steadily downward; a good pair of ponies, strong and willing; a roomy landau, wherein Hesketh still suffering from his fall at Drogmulla could stretch himself in comparative comfort, combined to bring us to Kohala this afternoon in a state of excellent preservation.
"I sail next week," said Hesketh, and a great relief shot into the face of his companion. "I have a good deal to see to over there. I shan't get back much before June, I fancy. And I must tell you I am doing the thing very thoroughly. This business of naturalizing myself, I mean. I am going to marry that very charming girl a great friend of yours, by the way, I know her to be Miss Milburn."
This being contrary to the etiquette as observed in dâk bungalows, I gently but firmly cleared out the neatly arranged toilet things and ready-made bed; while Hesketh was taken over, somewhat shattered by his tedious though exciting day, by his fellow Lancers.
The time, we may suppose, is at hand, and seems to be prognosticated by my dream, when these airy excursions will be universal, when judges will fly the circuit and bishops their visitations, and when the tour of Europe will be performed with much greater speed and with equal advantage by all who travel merely for the sake of saying that they have made it. To His Cousin, Lady Hesketh
Alec hadn't seemed to think of that; Hesketh put it down to the counter. "Not quite," said John. "We'll say among the early arrivals." "Have you ever been back in your native Scotland?" asked Hesketh. "Aye, twice." "But you prefer the land of your adoption?" "I do. But I think by now it'll be kin," said Mr Murchison.
Climbing up through a particularly noisome bazaar to the bungalow, I was met with the information that it was already full. I said that was a pity, but that room must be found for my party. Room was got somehow, a dâk bungalow being an extraordinarily elastic dwelling. Hesketh was stored in a little tent.
"Father, this is Mr Hesketh, from London my father, Hesketh. He can tell you all you want to know about Canada this part of it, anyway. Over thirty years, isn't it, Father, since you came out?" "Glad to meet you," said John Murchison, "glad to meet you, Mr Hesketh. We've heard much about you." "You must have been quite among the pioneers of Elgin, Mr Murchison," said Hesketh as they shook hands.
In less than a fortnight her own ambition and the devotion of Victoria's maid, Hesketh, only too delighted to dress somebody so eager to be dressed, for whom the mere operations of the toilette possessed a kind of religious joy, on whom, moreover, "clothes" in the proper and civilized sense of the word, sat so amazingly well had turned the forlorn little drudge into a figure more than creditable to the pains lavished upon her.
The points had been settled and Hesketh, having learned more than ever, had returned to Elgin. The maid came back into the room with a conscious air, and said something in a low voice to Dora, who flushed and frowned a little, and asked to be excused. As she left the room a glance of intelligence passed between her and her mother.
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