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He would be all right up there, knowing to a syllable what he wished to say; and he thought with swelling pride of comparatively recent public speeches and the praise that he had received from them. After the Parish meeting last January the Rodhaven District Courier had said, "With a few happy remarks Mr.
Little Rachel had never seen the sea, and expressed a strong desire to look upon the wonders of the deep; so daddy promised to take her and her mother to Rodhaven Pier directly he was free enough to do so. In the end he chose a Sunday for this treat, saying that the better the day the better the deed.
"Yes," sad Norah sagely, "children are like that. They must let off steam. As soon as they're tired they remember their manners and behave nicely." At the Station Inn Dale put up the horse and trap, and the journey was pursued by rail. The brightness and gaiety of Rodhaven charmed them all. They seemed to get out of the train into another climate, another world.
But I don't quite follow how it got lifted out of their hands at Rodhaven, and brought before us." "I demanded it," said Dale proudly. "I wasn't going to be messed about any further by a pack of funking old women for that's what they are, at Rodhaven. And I wasn't going to have it hushed over nor write any such letter as they asked." "Oh, they suggested "
Dale" this was Sir John, who had unexpectedly raised his eyes "are those who take most and make least;" and he lowered his eyes and went on reading the documents. "First," said the Colonel, "there is your correspondence with the staff at Rodhaven. Here it is. We have gone through it carefully and there's plenty of it.
"But apart from Rodhaven, we have evidence against you from the village. Your neighbors, Mr. Dale, complain more forcibly than anybody else." "Is that so?" Dale felt as if he had received a wickedly violent blow in the dark. "Of course," and he moved his hands spasmodically "Of course I've long expected I'd enemies." Then he snorted.
After twelve o'clock there was much more to look at. The children came shouting out of school, laborers passed to and fro on their way to dinner, and with horns loudly blowing, three heavily-laden chars-a-bancs arrived one after another from Rodhaven. The tourists filled the street, and for about two hours the aspect of things was lively and bustling.
In truth what he said now was almost what had been said by the authorities at Rodhaven good intentions, over-zeal, a mistake, if you care to call it so; but from these lips it fell on Dale's ear as soothing music. Mr. Barradine might say whatever he pleased: and the man he was defending would not object. "And now if I show the edge of the little private ax that I myself have to grind!" Mr.
Dale, if by my bruskness and apparent lack of consideration I put you to a little test. But it seemed necessary. You see, as to Rodhaven, the gravamen of their charge against you " "Charge!" Dale's voice had dropped to a whisper. "Do they lodge a charge against me, sir in spite of my record?"
"Oh, you're very clever, you Londoners. I don't doubt you can all see through a brick wall. Yes, I'm from the country but I'm beginning to know my way about the town too. Ever bin on a steamboat to Rodhaven?" "Rodhaven? No, sir." Then Dale told the waiter about the heaths and downs and woods that lie between Rodhaven and Old Manninglea.
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