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At Andre's suggestion the painting lessons were resumed, with Miss Chew as an additional pupil, and he undertook to teach them French as well; the music, too, was revived for Mobray's benefit, though now more often as a trio or quartette; and many other pleasures were shared in common.
Tiptoeing from the room, the aide went to the kitchen door and said to the publican, "Order one of the dragoons to make ready Captain Mobray's horse, as he wishes to ride back to Philadelphia." In the passageway he took from the hook the hat, cloak, and sword of the young officer, and, removing his own sash and sabre, donned the three.
For a moment Brereton stood in a kind of daze; but as the full horror of Mobray's words came home to him, he groaned. Turning, he plunged down into the fortress with a look of a man bereft, and striding to the commander cried, "For God's sake, Hamilton, give me something to do!" "The very man I wanted," replied the little colonel.
Scarcely had they been made known to each other when Mobray's fellow-commissioners, Colonel O'Hara and Colonel Stevens, with a detail of dragoons, came trotting up; and so soon as credentials were exchanged the six sat down about a table in a private room to discuss the matter which had brought them together.
"He has long owed me money, for which I have never pressed him, yet now he would have it that if I but ask payment, 't is revenge." One result of Mobray's outbreak was to give Janice another knight for the pageant. "'T is a crying shame," Andre told her; "but poor Fred has gone to the wall at last, and is to be sold up.
"I I I fear I am a ghastly object," he went on, "but could you bring yourself Am I too horrible for one kiss of farewell from you? Charlie will not grudge it to me." The girl knelt beside Brereton, and stooping tenderly kissed the dying man on the same spot that Jack had kissed. Mobray's left hand feebly took hers, and, consciously or unconsciously, brought the one which still held Jack's to it.
"What are the orders for us, sir?" asked the dragoon who held Mobray's horse, as the aide mounted. With an almost perfect imitation of the baronet's voice, Brereton answered, "Colonel O'Hara will issue directions later," and then as he cantered down the road he added gleefully: "Considerably later.
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