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No man saw clearly how it happened, but there was a forward dash, then an exclamation from one of the Volunteers, as he reined his horse back on its haunches, a wild cry from the barricade, and a loud shout, "Halt!" from Kilshaw. The line was stopped, and Kilshaw rode swiftly up to where the trooper had wrenched back his horse. Medland lay on the ground in front of the horse.
If I'd known they were at sixes and sevens like this, I'd have taken the Governor's offer." "Hum," said Mr. Kilshaw, who would be expected to subscribe largely to the suggested fund. "But how do you propose to get your dissolution now? Besides, I believe he'd beat us." "That would depend on Puttock and one or two more." "What did you think of Puttock's explanation?"
Kilshaw, Legislative Assembly, Kirton." "I'm sorry to say, sir," said the Superintendent, "that the detective sergeant conducting the search took upon him to open this packet in the presence of one or two persons. It ought to have been opened by no one but " "Myself." "Pardon me, but myself," said the Superintendent, with a slight smile.
Kilshaw could only appeal to the paramount interests of the public welfare as an excuse for his own doubtful dealing: Dick could and did look into Daisy Medland's eyes and forget that there was any need or occasion for excuse at all. Supposing she were fond of him and he could not suppose anything else what did he mean to do?
Kilshaw, assuming Benham loved the Premier no more than Mr. Puttock, remarked, "I'd give something handsome to see that fellow smashed." "Would you?" asked Benham, with an eager smile; Kilshaw promised him a better opening than Puttock. He stepped across to Medland, raising his hat. "A moment, Mr. Medland. You have not changed your mind on that little matter?"
"As a rule, you know," the Captain continued, "coming out for a ride here, except at midnight, means standing up under a willow and wondering how the deuce you'll get home." "Well, you're not under a willow now." "No; I was, but I had to quit. Derosne and Miss Medland turned me out." "Ah!" "Yes." "You felt you ought to go?" "My tact told me so. I say, Kilshaw, what do you make of that?"
"How's your friend Benham?" shouted one. "We'll serve you the same," yelled another; "come down;" and a third, whose partisanship outran his moral sense, proposed a cheer for Mr. François Gaspard. "I think you'll have to sleep here," said the Captain. "Not I," answered Kilshaw. "They daren't touch me." "Hum!" said the Captain, doubtfully regarding the crowd.
"I thought so. And I happen to know he's very active among the political clubs here." "Oh, that explains Medland being with him," said Kilshaw. "Some Communist or Socialist probably."
"One criminal in his Cabinet," said Mr. Kilshaw, with scornful reference to Norburn, "and arm-in-arm down the street with another. We're getting on, aren't we, Chief Justice?" "I have seen too many criminals," answered Sir John, "to think badly of a man merely because he commits an offence against the law." The Chief Justice did not intend to be drawn into any exhibition of partisanship.
Medland came down the steps and found himself almost face to face with Kilshaw. The ex-Premier was smoking a cigar, and he took it out of his mouth, in order to smile more freely. "If," he said to Kilshaw, "it's not dangerous to public order, I should like a cab." Kilshaw heard a shamefaced, stifled giggle from his men behind him and turned very red.
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