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He had clear blue eyes, and the hair beneath his battered fur cap was brown. For the rest, he wore a black leather jacket with several rents in it, ragged duck trousers, and long boots. His companions were the usual Bush choppers simple, strong-armed men of kindly nature and Nasmyth was quite aware that they had undertaken most of his share in the work during the last few hours.
This depended upon Lisle, whom he had promised to assist. Nasmyth could foresee nothing but trouble, and he was silent for a while as they drove on across the lonely moor. Dinner was over, and Millicent's elderly companion had discreetly left them alone, when the girl led Nasmyth into her drawing-room.
The minister himself, as Mr Snow told Mrs Nasmyth, was "popular." Not, however, that any one among them all thought him faultless, unless Mr Snow himself did. Every old lady in the town saw something in him, which she not secretly deplored. Indeed, they were more unanimous, with regard to the minister's faults, than old ladies generally are on important subjects.
The tortuous chasm in the earth, caused by the quarries beneath, is about half a mile long, and about a thousand feet wide. After a drawing by James Nasmyth. The first process of the workmen in the quarries below is devoted to breaking into small fragments the great masses of ore scattered about by the previous night's explosions.
Gordon was silent for a moment or two. "Of course, I partly expected it," he observed. "In fact, when I was talking to Miss Waynefleet about you, I ventured to predict something of the kind." The two men looked at each other for a moment, and then Nasmyth smiled. "You haven't anything else to say," he suggested. "No," answered Gordon, "at least, nothing that's very material.
Indeed, Nasmyth would have suggested remaining under shelter only that he had come to accept Lisle's decision as final and the latter was eager to push on. The blacktail deer would not last them long; the trout were getting shyer every day with the increasing cold; they were a long distance from the nearest settlement; while winter was rapidly coming on.
There was bright sunshine at Bonavista when Nasmyth, who had been told at the station that Acton had arrived from Victoria the day before, limped out from the shadow of the surrounding Bush, and stood still a moment or two, glancing across the trim lawn and terrace towards the wooden house.
Gordon said that he was in Mrs. Acton's hands, and then turned to Nasmyth. "I've had my say," he observed. "If there's any meaning in my remarks, you can worry it out." He went away with Acton, and Wisbech looked at his nephew over his cigar. "Mr. Gordon expresses himself in a rather extravagant fashion, but I'm disposed to fancy there is something in what he says," he commented.
Then, counting the amount for your board, that's thirty-six dollars I'm due to you." "Not quite," answered Nasmyth. "There was the day or two after I fell through the ice and had the shivers. I'd sooner you knocked off the few dollars." The logger was said to be a hard man, and in some respects this was certainly the case; but a faint flush crept into his grim face.
Then the shores closed in ahead, and, landing on a shingle beach, they made camp in the mouth of a gap among the hills. Supper was prepared and eaten, and afterward Jake took up his rifle. "I saw some ducks in the next bay," he explained. He strolled out of camp, and Nasmyth smiled at Lisle. "Except when he advised you to pole, that's about all he has said to-day." This was correct.
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