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Updated: June 23, 2025


The landlady looked in at the door. 'Here's a gemman wants to see you, Miss Nancarrow. 'Oh? What sort of a gentleman? 'Why, oldish five-an'-forty, I dessay. Greyish beard and a big nose. Speaks very loud and important like. Not her uncle; he had no beard and a very small nose, and could not thus have altered since she last saw him. 'All right. I'll go and ask him what he wants.

As he entered the door of the building where his chambers were, he saw a young fellow whom he knew slightly. "I say, have you seen this, Nancarrow?" he said. "What is it?" "It is an order given to his army by the Kaiser. It was sent me by a man who actually saw it. Just read it. It is the sweetest thing I have seen yet."

As luck would have it, a match had been arranged between Nancarrow and a rival for the Admiral's daughter's affections, and the old man was present. You see, my star was in the ascendant. Of course I followed the match as an ignorant but ardent admirer of the game." "I see. Spare me the details." "Pooh! the tricks of a child! I feel almost ashamed of them!

"Nancy," said the Captain, "I I shouldn't be surprised if it were Bob Nancarrow," and the heroism in those words was greater than that of many deeds for which he had been praised. In that moment Trevanion had won a greater battle than he realised.

Nevertheless he found himself making plans for going. For several days Mrs. Nancarrow had been cold and uncommunicative, and he knew that a cloud of reserve hung between them. He felt that his mother despised him. He felt sure, too, that she knew all that had taken place at Penwennack that he was henceforth to be treated, in what he had regarded as his second home, as worse than a stranger.

Trevanion looked at her with admiring eyes. Even while he hoped she would remain in England, he admired her determination to go and nurse the worst cases. "What a wife she'll be!" he reflected. "Proud as Lucifer and honourable to the finger tips. Yes, I've got her. She'll regard even this shadow of a promise as binding on her. As for Nancarrow, he's done with for ever. Thank heaven for that!

Still Trevanion could not speak freely; even yet he wondered if there were not some way whereby doubt could be kept in the girl's mind. "You see," he said presently, "Nancarrow was in the O.T.C. at Clifton, and, I suppose, did very well there.

Nancarrow had been a Miss Trelawney, and a direct descendant of the most important family in the county, it is probable that the coolness would have ended in an estrangement. Bob, although he inherited his mother's looks, was greatly influenced by his father's opinions. Dr. Nancarrow died when he was quite a boy, yet his father's memory became one of the most potent influences in his life.

I knew that a young chap called Nancarrow often played there, and that he was very friendly with the Admiral's family. A worshipper of his daughter in fact. This Nancarrow is of Quaker descent on his father's side, and is a sort of peace-at-any-price fellow. Rather a nice chap, but brought up with his father's notions.

They had not long left the French capital, before Bob realised that he was passing through country which not long before had been the scene of carnage. The train passed slowly along, and was often held up owing to the terrible exigencies of war. "Do you see that, Nancarrow?" said Pringle, pointing to a field in which wheat had been planted, but which had never been garnered.

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