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Updated: May 7, 2025
"And my works are to be Public Works, I suppose," grumbled Kilshaw, finding some comfort in this epigrammatic statement of the unwelcome prospect before him. "Red-hot, isn't he?" asked Sir John Oakapple, who, as Chief Justice of the colony, had sent the new Minister to gaol. Kilshaw nodded. "Will he and Puttock pull together?" continued the Chief Justice.
"Who never had a wife?" asked Alicia, with a laugh, as they were putting on their cloaks. After a moment's pause, Eleanor answered, "Sir John Oakapple," and she excused this deviation from truth by the sage reflection that girls like Alicia must not be told everything. "We all know that," commented Alicia, contemptuously. "I hoped it was something interesting."
Therefore, Oakapple, you're wrong and my wife's right." "The deuce!" said the Chief Justice. "I wonder how I ever got any briefs." In the afternoon, when these idlers had one and all set out for the Legislative Assembly, some to work, others still to idle, Mr. Kilshaw felt interest enough in the fate of his late henchman to drop in at the police office on his way to the same destination.
Sir John Oakapple fixed himself permanently by the steps of the carriage, and played the part of a good-humoured though cynical chorus to the shifting drama. Presently, a little way off, Mr. Coxon made his appearance, showing in his manner a pleased consciousness of his importance.
"He's supposed to be lying low. And then I was down at the club and met old Oakapple there, and he told me that Kilshaw had boasted of having done a deal with Puttock." "What did he mean?" Anyhow the Chief Justice thought Perry would be back soon." "What? That Mr. Medland would be turned out? What a shame! He hasn't had a fair chance, has he?"
The sudden departure of Dick Derosne was, according to Kilshaw's view of it, a notable triumph for him over his adversary; but he was not a man to rest content with one victory. He had hardly achieved this success when a chance word from Captain Heseltine started him in a new enterprise, and a hint from Sir John Oakapple confirmed him in his course.
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