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Everybody understood what he hinted. Sir Robert did not care to depend on the will of Coxon and his seceders. "And what about Coxon and Puttock?" was the next question. "Haven't I been indiscreet enough?" "Well, what are you going to do yourself?" "My duty," answered Mr.
"It's a gambler's last throw," declared Puttock. "Honestly, I'm ashamed to have been so long in finding out his real character." Some one here weakly defended the Premier. "After all," he said, "there's nothing wrong in a public meeting, and perhaps that's all " Puttock overbore him with a solemnly emphasised reiteration "A discredited gambler's last throw."
Drumming gently on the table, he said, "Oh, no Temperance this session. We'll give 'em a Labour session." He paused, and added, "And give it 'em hot and strong." So that evening Puttock and Jewell resigned, and the Cabinet, meeting the House shorn and maimed, was established in power by the magnificent majority of ten. "If so soon as this I'm done for, I wonder what I was begun for!"
"Those great feeds always are." "Why, Daisy," exclaimed Mr. Medland, "you're drinking wine. How about Mrs. Puttock?" "Oh, she told you? She said it was very wicked." "And you?" "Oh, I said it wasn't, because you did it." "Luckily, a conclusion may be right, though the reason for it is utterly wrong," said the Premier.
The debate ended, leaving the general impression that the Government stood committed to a policy which some called thorough and some dangerous. Mr. Kilshaw, passing Puttock in the lobby, remarked, "You'll have some fine opportunities for your 'independent and discriminating support, Puttock, and I hope your banking account will be the fatter for it."
The only secret part of his enterprise had been transacted with the Premier in Digby Square: for the rest, a plausible overtness of action was plainly desirable. He obtained an interview with Puttock, and laid before him his hopes and his qualifications. Mr.
Amidst their talk and the occasional interruptions of men who joined and left them, the evening wore away, and Eleanor had just signed to Alicia to make ready to go, when Mrs. Puttock touched on the Premier, who was visible across the room, chatting merrily with his host, and laughing heartily at the Chief Justice's stories. "The Premier seems in good spirits," said Mrs. Puttock, a little acidly.
Eleanor racked her memory and produced the names of four ladies with each of whom Dick had danced one hasty waltz. "That's only four dances," objected Lady Eynesford. "Oh, I didn't notice. I was talking to Sir John and to Mrs. Puttock." "Eleanor!" "Well then, he danced once or twice with little Daisy Medland. It was her first ball, you know."
Down to the very week before the Legislative Assembly met, Mr. Medland kept his own counsel, disclosing his mind not even to his colleagues. Then he called a Cabinet, and listened to the conflicting views set forth by Puttock and Norburn. "And what do you say, Mr. Coxon?" he asked, when Puttock's vehement harangue came to an end. "I shall follow your judgment implicitly," replied Mr.
"A man of his age with the asthma may live for twenty years," said the Senator who had already learned that Mr. Puttock was only fifty. Then he ascertained that Mr. Puttock had not been presented to, or selected for the living on account of any peculiar fitness; but that he had been a fellow of Rufford at Oxford till he was forty-five, when he had thought it well to marry and take a living.
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