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Simpkins will be delighted to get a cup." "Oh! but you must have some," said Miss King. "You look so hot." "Mr. Simpkins is hot. I'm not in the least. In fact, what I'd like most would be a short stroll up the river with Sir Gilbert and the Major." "Certainly," said the judge. "I've had my tea, and I'm quite ready for a walk." "Come along, Major," said Meldon. Major Kent showed no sign of moving.
Simpkins is beginning to buck up already. Look at him." Simpkins was staggering towards his hat, which Meldon had left lying at the place where the punt landed. "I expect," said the Major, "that he feels as if the sun on the back of his head would upset him again. It must be pretty hot in there where they're sheltered from the wind."
What I was thinking of was those famous lines of Sir Walter Scott's. You recollect the ones I mean, I suppose?" "No; I don't." "'Oh woman," said Meldon, "'in our hours of ease' that's now, Major, so far as we're concerned 'uncertain, coy, and hard to please. That's what Miss King ought to have been, but wasn't. Nobody can say she was coy about the lobsters.
"I don't think much of that," said Meldon. "It strikes me as a poor idea, for three reasons. In the first place, you'll not be able to get an artist who can draw the apple trees so that any ordinary man could recognise them. I know what I'm talking about, for apple trees necessarily come a good deal into ecclesiastical art, the kind of art I'm most familiar with.
"I suppose," he said, "that nothing I can say will prevent your thrusting yourself into the company of this judge to-day." "If you refer," said Meldon, "to my intention of calling civilly on Sir Gilbert Hawkesby, nothing you say will alter my view that it is a very proper thing to do, considering that the man is a stranger in the locality." "Then I beg of you, J. J., to be careful.
"And how did you like him?" said Doyle. "My feelings don't matter," said Meldon. "As a matter of fact, judging from a single interview, I should say he was a pleasant enough, straightforward sort of man who is trying to do what is right." "If he tried less," said Doyle, "he'd get on better." "Quite so.
When Meldon and Major Kent returned, lobsterless, after half an hour's absence, they found Mr. Simpkins sitting on a stone by himself with the wet hat still on his head. Miss King was a long way off, stumbling about among the stones at the water's edge. She may, perhaps, have been trying to catch lobsters. The voyage home was most unpleasant for every one except Meldon.
Why would there?" "If Mr. Meldon had seen Patsy Flaherty last night," said the Major, "there probably would have been." "Do you mean to say," said Meldon, "that he drove straight off to see Miss King?" "It's where he told the driver to go, any way," said Doyle, "and it's there he went without he changed his mind on the way. What I was thinking was that maybe he's acquainted with Miss King."
But if you'd been there you'd know that he couldn't have come afterwards. He must have been there for some time." "I don't know what you mean," said Meldon. "If you will have it in plain language," said the judge, "the whole thing was settled, and the usual accompaniments were in full swing." "Do you mean to suggest that my friend Major Kent was kissing Miss King?"
"In order to make my position quite plain," said Meldon, "and to prevent any possibility of your thinking that I'm meddling with your affairs in an unwarrantable manner, I may add that I recognise in you one of the pillars of society, a bulwark of our civil and religious liberty, a mainstay of law and order. So does O'Donoghue."
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