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Chum, all I've got to say " "Shut up," cried Neil. "Listen, fellows, they're marching across the common. Some one help me to the window. I want to see." Paul strode to his side, and putting an arm under his shoulders lifted him to his feet. Sydney lowered the gas and the four crowded to the window.
'I wouldn't go there to-day, I think, interposed Mrs. Stewart hurriedly. 'I don't think Neil will be at home. I'm afraid the walk would be too much for Tricksy, she went on quickly, for the young people were looking surprised. 'Not if we start now, I think, Mother, and give Tricksy a rest now and again. What do you say, Tricksy? 'Of course I can walk, said Tricksy.
I have seen all of the world I wish to, and the quiet and peace of Stoneleigh will be very grateful to me. I think, however, that for the winter I shall remain in London, where I hope to see you and Mr. Jerrold, whose father and mother I met years ago at Penrhyn Park. I do not yet know when Neil will start for India; probably within a few weeks, and then I shall be very lonely.
'We'll stand up for old Neil, no matter what happens, was the upshot of their deliberations; and Elspeth, coming in and out, dried her tears furtively with the corner of her apron. Later in the evening a dog-cart drove up; and Dr. and Mrs. MacGregor alighted. Marjorie ran down into the hall, while the others all clustered about the banisters and looked down.
"For instance," said Terence in a mocking voice, which fell like ice upon poor Nora's hot, indignant nature "for instance, Andy Neil he's a nice specimen, is he not?" "Oh," said Nora, "he he is the exception. Don't talk of him, please." "That's just it," said Terence, laughing. "Nora wants to give us all the sweets, and to conceal all the bitters. Now, I am honest, whatever I am."
Todd put his head on one side and gazed sentimentally up the hill, a pose which was slightly damaged by old Bella throwing up her head and spattering him with water. As Donald Neil came cantering homeward, he met the mail driver dropping down the Glenoro hills towards the Flats. "Hello, Coonie!" called the young man, "how's yourself to-day?"
But Neil chaffed back, demanding to know why Charley's imagination had not long since overcome the difficulty. "Just you wait; the idea'll come all right," Charley promised. "Most probably," Neil agreed. "But I'm afraid the salmon will be exterminated first, and then there will be no need for it when it does come."
"Yes, tell me," Lucy said, and closing his eyes, and leaning back wearily in his chair, Grey told her everything he knew with regard to Bessie McPherson, who had died in Rome, and whose grave he had stood beside in the yard at Stoneleigh; told her, too, of Bessie's engagement to Neil, of which he had heard from Jack Trevellian, and of Neil's apparent heartlessness and indifference when he met him in the streets of Liverpool.
There was a terrific explosion, then Neil Stewart tossed the redoubtable Billyus a quarter, crying: "You win," and walked away with Peggy, his laughter now and again borne back to his beneficiaries.
But she was soon relieved from all uneasiness on that score, by Miss McPherson, who, noticing her hesitancy, said: "Don't be afraid to tell me exactly as it is, for were Archie ten times my nephew, I would rather hear the whole truth just as Grey told it of Neil. So, then, what did you think of Archie?
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