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I was dining here that night, as you know, with Andrew Wilmore, and while he was ordering the dinner and talking to some friends, I went down to the American Bar to have a cocktail. Miss Daisy Hyslop and Fairfax were seated there alone and talking confidentially. Fairfax was insisting that Miss Hyslop should do something which puzzled her.
"Then I suppose she stated her grounds for refusing?" "That is so," said Lister. "Perhaps Miss Hyslop will tell you what they are. I will not." Cartwright looked at him hard. "All the same, I imagine you did not agree?" "I did not agree. If I make good at the wreck, I will try again." "Barbara is pretty obstinate," Cartwright remarked with a smile, and then filled Lister's glass.
Seaton had loosed passions he might have restrained and the shareholders were frankly moved by fear, distrust, and greed. Men got up, asking angry questions and shouting implications, but for a few minutes Cartwright sat like a rock and let them rage. When they stopped and there was an awkward pause, Mortimer Hyslop got up.
"By which observation, Captain Hyslop, I conclude you are descended from an Irishman," observed Senhor Silva; "for if Natty was to kill Leo, and a wild beast was to carry off Natty, I do not see how they could come and give an account of themselves." "Had poor Terence O'Brien uttered the expression, I should not have been surprised," said Kate, laughing at her brother.
The doctor laughed and joining an English friend in the hotel ordered a drink. "I reckon I've been rushed," he remarked. "You folks look slow, but I allow when you do get started some of you can move. Since lunch I've been helping an English girl fix some things and she hit a pace that left me out of breath." "Miss Hyslop?" said the other.
They were friends, and Bob was a very good sort, but Vernon would sooner he had stopped away. "Hallo!" he said. "Why have you come along?" "I lost my hunting-knife," Winter replied. "It was hooked to my belt and I thought the clip let go when we helped Miss Hyslop over the big log. A bully knife; I wanted to find the thing."
"Barbara has picked a rather dreary day for a run to the north docks. I understood she was going to the shops." "Miss Hyslop met me near the station and I persuaded her to come and see my ship." "Then you have got a ship?" said Cartwright. "If you are not on duty, come to the office in the morning and tell me about the boat. In the meantime, I'll put Barbara on the tunnel train."
Francis for the first time was aware that his host was not alone. The room, with its odd splashes of light, was full of shadows, and he saw now that in an easy-chair a little distance away from Sir Timothy, a girl was seated. Behind her, still standing, with his hat in his hand, was a man. Francis recognised them both with surprise. "Miss Hyslop!" he exclaimed. She nodded a little defiantly.
"Nothing doing there; he'll watch out. Well, we'll hide up his tracks and look for my knife. D'you think Grace Hyslop knew the job was put up?" "I don't," said Vernon dryly. "I reckon she was puzzled, but that's all. You couldn't persuade Miss Hyslop her sister liked adventures in the dark. Anyhow, the thing's done with. We have got to let it go." They went off and Winter pondered.
V, VIII. Sutherland, op. cit, chap. XV. F. Thilly, INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS, chap. III. Westermarck, op. cit, chap. V. Darwin, DESCENT OF MAN, partt. I, chap. III. J. H. Hyslop, ELEMENTS OF ETHICS, chaps. VI, VII. J. S. Mill, UTILITARIANISM, chap. v. H. W. Wright, SELF-REALIZATION, part. I, chap.
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