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"That's better," said Meldon. "I'm glad to see that you're capable of getting some good out of an innocent pleasure, even if you have to wait till somebody points out to you what it is you ought to enjoy." "Any way, J. J., this will put a stopper on your plan. There'll be no love-making to-day." "On the contrary," said Meldon, "I expect we've laid the foundation of a deep and enduring affection.
"It's early yet," said the Major, glancing at the clock. "I seldom turn in before eleven." "I'm going to turn in now," said Meldon. "I'd be better in bed, for I can't sleep here with the way you're snoring. I just woke you up to say that I'll get a hold of Simpkins some time to-morrow and settle things with him.
Therefore Simpkins must have gone to play at some sort of club." "Unless it would be at Donard," said Doyle, "I don't know where there'd be a thing of the kind." "Right," said Meldon. "And, as a matter of fact, there is a club at Donard. I know that, because I was once invited to play there in a tournament. I think we may feel tolerably certain that Simpkins is there. Let me see now.
These two subjects, I think, will make a tolerably complete programme for the morning. If you ring a bell outside the door at one o'clock, I shall row in to luncheon. I shall be pretty hungry by that time, I expect, in spite of the biscuits." Meldon carried out his plan successfully for the first part of the morning.
There won't be much, and what there is will be charred." "Wait a minute," said Meldon. "I don't deny that I'm hungry and tired, but I'd rather ride all the way back to Donard than sit down at table with you in the temper you're in at present." "It'll be worse," said the Major, "if I'm kept waiting any longer. And I know what your tirades are.
His wishes were taken for granted, and he was deposited, with great difficulty, in the bow of the punt. Meldon rowed them ashore. He gave his arm to Miss King and led her up to a dry rock, on which she sat down. He went back to the punt again, straightened out Simpkins, hauled him up, and set him down beside Miss King. Then he rowed back to the Spindrift in the punt.
"But I don't want any of you to help me. Why should I?" "I'm glad to hear that, at all events," said Meldon. "For, unless under very exceptional circumstances, I couldn't conscientiously assist you in any way." "You said just now," said Miss King, "that you had no prejudices, and that nothing shocked you." "Very few things do," said Meldon.
He attempted at one time to wrap her in an oilskin coat, thinking that additional warmth might be good for her; but the smell of the garment brought on a violent spasm, and he was obliged to take it away from her shoulders. In the evening, after Miss King and Mr. Simpkins had been sent home on a car, Meldon reviewed the day's proceedings.
I hope you don't mind my saying so. I need scarcely tell you that it wasn't a personal matter. There's nothing I should enjoy more than having you here permanently." "I suppose that the Condy's Fluid and the paraffin oil were ?" "Means to the same end," said Meldon. "They were kindly meant. If they caused you any serious inconvenience " "They did." "Then I apologise, frankly and unreservedly.
The Spindrift, which had been thrashing her way into the teeth of the wind, was allowed to go free, and reached swiftly towards Ilaun More. The change of motion completely finished Simpkins, but the period of his extreme misery was short. The yacht rounded up into the wind in a sheltered bay, and Meldon let go the anchor.
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