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"I am in a hole, and have to get out as best I can. Il faut que je file. Here is your little prodder." His arm swung. Something flashed in the sky, fell, always flashing, and stuck in the hillside above him, quivering there. It was the boy's dirk. The Gentleman had gone, and the scent-bottle with him. The boy stood on a track that ran among the gorse, and looked about him.
The work on which he is now engaged, which will bear the title of The Browns of Brixton, is a tender sketch of English domesticity. This new vein of Mr. Hatton's will, doubtless, be distinguished by the naturalness of dialogue and sanity of characterisation of his first novel. Messrs. Prodder and Way are to publish it in the autumn. "He's running the Reverend again, is he?" said I to myself.
Prodder and Way seemed pleased with it; though, when I suggested a sum in cash in advance of royalties, they displayed a most embarrassing coyness and also, as events turned out, good sense. I carried the good news to Julian, whom I found, as usual, asleep in his hammock. I had fallen into the habit of calling on him after my Orb work.
"No just tired," and no one knew better than Grace what a conscience prodder such a meeting as this proved to be that is "no one" except, perhaps, Rose Dixon. Determined to wait no longer than the very next afternoon, Grace asked both Cleo and Madaline over to her front porch directly after school, assuring their acceptance to her invitation by the lure of "a big secret to tell them."
"Count the number of people who must necessarily be in the secret from the beginning. There are your publishers, Prodder and Way. Then there are the editors of the magazine which publishes your Society dialogue bilge, and of all the newspapers, other than the Orb, in which your serious verse appears.
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