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Maitland proceeded: Q. In order that this monkey might not attack the wrong man after you had armed him, you taught him to obey certain signals given by little twitches upon the cord by which you held him. A certain signal was to creep stealthily forward, another to strike, and still another to crawl quickly back with the weapon.
That he gets it out of your pocket doesn't alter that; that he doesn't wear rags and knock at back doors doesn't alter it. He's a dead beat! Any man is, who takes and doesn't give anything in return. It's queer you can't see that, Mrs. Maitland." She was silent. "Why, look here: I've heard you say, many a time, that the best part of your life was when you had to work hardest. Isn't that so?"
Up to a late hour he hadn't returned, and police opinion is divided as to whether Maitland arrested Anisty, and Anisty got away, or vice versa." "Excellent!" She clasped her hands noiselessly, a gay little gesture. "So, whatever the outcome, one thing is certain: Higgins will presently be seeking another berth." She lifted her brows prettily. "Higgins?" with the rising inflection. "The butler.
It became increasingly difficult, when a few minutes after my arrival Colonel Maitland joined us. "It was lucky for him he did not meet us, hey, Sutgrove?" said the Colonel. "You, Winter, and myself, would soon settle a Motor Pirate, wouldn't we?" I muttered something which would pass for an assent, while Mannering shot an amused smile in my direction.
In fact, we were together at Maitland Camp, last week, when you tried issues with the little gray broncho." As he spoke, he moved slightly, and the light fell full upon his yellow hair and on his blue eyes, dark and fringed with long black lashes. Weldon looked up at him with a smile of recognition. "It is Captain Frazer, then?" "Yes.
Because it would have been mean, then, to leave him. You see that, David? Besides, I was a spoiled thing, a worthless thing. If staying with him would make up for the harm I had done him, Mrs. Maitland told me I had injured him; why of course, there was nothing else to do. I knew you would understand. So I stayed. 'Unkind to me?" She bent forward a little to hear his smothered question.
For the beauty of the country between Maitland and the sea, I cannot say much: it used to remind me of Lower Bengal, being so very flat, and, in some places, so low as to be frequently flooded. Like the houses in almost all new towns, those in Maitland form a motley assemblage of buildings of all sizes, shapes, and colours.
"I mean . . . this isn't my business, but I can't see you Mrs. Maitland, if I get to talking on this subject, we'll quarrel." The glare of anger in her face died out. She leaned back in her chair and looked at him. "I won't quarrel with you. Go on. Say what you think. I won't say I'll take your advice, but I'll listen to it." "It's what I have always told you.
I heard you lie to me and scented the lie in the same breath. Why do you not ask me as well to form a friendship for him with whom you have replaced me? Ah, so you think I am blind, and you fancy I did not see that Maitland near you, and that I did not know at the first glance what part he was playing in your life? You did not think I might have good reasons for returning as I did?
"Just one other point," he resumed mercilessly, "a point which a few years ago would have been inexplicable if not positively misleading and productive of actual mistake. I refer to the dreams of Mrs. Maitland." I had been expecting it, yet the words startled me. What must they have done to her? But she kept admirable control of herself.
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