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The French officers rushed forwards; and, conspicuous in front of their men, attempted to deploy them into a more extended line, so as to enable them to reply with effect to the British fire. But Maitland's brigade kept showering in volley after volley with deadly rapidity. The decimated column grew disordered in its vain efforts to expand itself into a more efficient formation.
"Lay a clean cloth and bring the bill of fare," he demanded, tempering his lordly instincts and adding the "please" that men of Maitland's stamp use to inferiors. "A friend!" tardily echoed the girl when the servant was gone. He laughed lightly, determined to be frank. "A detective, in point of fact," said he. And enjoyed her surprise. "You have many such?"
Nor would he be suffering the keen and wearing anxiety of speculating on what had befallen Margaret. His fancy suggested the most gloomy yet plausible solutions of the mystery of her disappearance. In spite of these reflections, Maitland's confidence in the sagacity of his old tutor was unshaken.
In an instant the compact mass of the French spread out into a rabble, and they fled back down the hill, pursued by Maitland's men, who, however, returned to their position in time to take part in the repulse of the second column of the Imperial Guard.
When I recovered my senses I found myself in Governor Maitland's mansion. The reader will guess what followed. I fell deeply in love with Clara Maitland, to whom I confided the secret of my birth. The generous girl asserted that she had detected the superiority of my manner at once. We plighted our troth, and resolved to wait upon events. Briggs called to see me a few days afterward.
Several times during that dinner, prolonged amid the sparkle of magnificent silver and Venetian crystal, amid the perfume of flowers and the gleam of jewels, she had seen Maitland's eyes fixed upon the Countess with an expression which almost caused her to cry out, so clearly did her instinct divine its impassioned sensuality, and once she thought she saw her mother respond to it.
He would only ask the Court to remember the prisoner's antecedents and his previous good conduct, and to bear in mind that whatever his near future might be he was, in a commercial sense, ruined for life. "The Recorder, in passing sentence, said that he had not heard a single word of valid excuse for Maitland's conduct.
A refusal was at Maitland's lips when the door was opened by an old lady in a white frilled cap and without being able to explain how it came about he found himself in the quaintly furnished but delightfully cosy living-room, soaking in the comfort of a great blazing fire. "This is really solid comfort," he said, spreading his hands to the glowing pine slabs. "Ay, ye need it the day.
"Oh, Jack," she whispered, leaning toward him and breathing quickly, "it was so like the old, the dear old days." Into Maitland's eyes there flashed a look of surprise, of wonder, then of piercing scrutiny, while his face grew white. "Adrien," he said, in a voice low, tense, almost stern, which she alone heard. "What do you mean? Then do you "
At this point, the door opened and Maitland walked in. A few moments of tense silence, and then something seemed to snap. The opposition, led by the hockey men and their supporters, burst into a demonstration of welcome. The violence of the demonstration was not solely upon Maitland's account.
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