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Now, it was the happy certainty of the Colonel's return next day that inspired his eloquence; now, the pleasure with which the Colonel would meet Payton again; now, the lucky chance that found a pair of new foils on the window ledge among the fishing-tackle, the old fowling-pieces, and the ragged copies of Armida and The Don. "For he's ruined entirely and no one to play with him!"
"Show us your back, and for the future give gentlemen of honour a wide berth! You are no mate for them!" The act and the words were too strong for the stomachs of the more generous among his hearers. A murmur, an undoubted murmur rose for if Payton was feared he was not loved; and the sallow-faced man, whose name was Marsh, spoke out. "Easy, Payton," he said. "The gentleman " "The gentleman, eh?"
But the thrust was so unexpected that on the instant Payton read the other's secret in his eyes knew that he loved, and knew that he was jealous. Jealous of Sullivan! Jealous of the man whom he was for some reason praising. Then why not jealous of a younger, a more proper, a more fashionable rival? Asgill's cunningly reared plans began to sink, and even while he answered he knew it.
"While you have been away, something has happened," he continued. After all, it was perhaps as well, he reflected, that Payton had come. His coming, even if Flavia did not encounter him, would divert her thoughts, would suggest an external peril, would prevent her dwelling too long or too fancifully on that room in the Tower, and on the man who famished there.
"Did not come here of his own accord, and you've said enough, and done enough! For my part " "I didn't ask for your interference!" the other cried insolently. "Well, anyway " "And I don't want it! And I won't have it; do you hear, Marsh?" Payton repeated menacingly. "You know me, and I know you."
"If I must," she said slowly, "I will if I must." "Then what's the good of talking, I'm thinking?" The McMurrough answered. And he was going on being in a bullying mood to say more in the same strain, when the opportunity was taken from him. One of the O'Beirnes, who happened to avert his eyes from the girl, discovered Payton standing at the foot of the stairs.
And he suspected the other; and he shook ay, so that the table against which he leant trembled with rage at the thought that Payton might offer the girl some rudeness. The suspicion weighed so heavily on him that he was fixed to see the other to his room that night.
"But not now! Not now! Let him rise if he can! Let him rise, I say! Payton! Major!" The moment James stood back the fallen man staggered to his feet, and though the blood was running down his face from a cut on the cheek-bone, he showed that he was less hurt than startled. "You'll give me satisfaction for this!" he muttered. "You'll give me satisfaction for this," he repeated, between his teeth.
"Thirty guineas against your new mare, if you like?" "No, confound you," Payton retorted angrily. "Didn't I say she wasn't for sale?" Beyond doubt Colonel John had got himself off the scene with a certain amount of dignity.
And to-morrow Colonel Sullivan, that's more knowledge of the mode and foreign ways, will be back, and he'll be helping his cousin. More by token," he added, in a different tone, "you know him of old?" Payton, who had frowned at the name, reddened at the question. "Is that," he asked, "the Colonel Sullivan who " "Who tried the foils with Lemoine at Tralee?" Asgill cried heartily.
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