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Trenholme's baritone was strong and tuneful for the Muses, if kind, are often lavish of their gifts so the final refrain of an impassioned love song traveled far that placid morning. Thus, when he reached the iron gates, he found the Roxton policeman standing there, grinning. "Hello!" said the artist cheerily. Of course he knew the policeman.
Two men had been swept overboard, as Roxton said one of them was Percivale but they had both got on board again, to drift, oarless, with the rest now in a windless valley now aloft on a tempest-swept hill of water away towards a goal they knew not, neither had chosen, and which yet they could by no means avoid.
By the way, I led the youth at the call office to believe that I was searching for an undersized Polish Jewess, all nose and gold earrings, a description which hardly applies to Miss Garth. And one last question do you return to Roxton tonight?" "Within the hour." So Winter descended the stone stairs a second time, a prey to a feeling of failure. What had he gained by his impetuous actions?
There was a crash of broken boughs as it dived wildly down into the tangle of green. I caught a glimpse of a hairy body like that of a reddish pig, and then it was gone amid a swirl of leaves and branches. "What's the matter?" shouted Roxton from below. "Anything wrong with you?" "Did you see it?" I cried, with my arms round the branch and all my nerves tingling.
The village barber, too, bore out Eliza's statement. "A rare old row there was in Roxton twenty year ago, when Fenley fust kem here, an' tried to close the path," said the barber. "But we beat him, we did, an' well he knows it.
"Still, I'm glad you attended to those bonds. Who had charge of the Paris end?" "Jacques Faure." "Ah, a good man." "Pretty fair, for a Frenchman." Winter laughed. "You born frog!" he cried.... "Hello, there's a Roxton sign post. Now let's compose our features. We are near The Towers." The estate figured on the county map, so the chauffeur pulled up at the right gate.
"What more do you want? The fellow is a self-confessed humbug. We have only to return home and report him as the brazen imposter that he is." "Invisible ink!" I suggested. "I don't think!" said Lord Roxton, holding the paper to the light. "No, young fellah my lad, there is no use deceiving yourself. I'll go bail for it that nothing has ever been written upon this paper."
"I remember now that Roxton told me he had far more confidence in his rockets than in anything a life-boat could do, upon this coast at least." While we spoke we came to the bank of the canal. This we had to cross, in order to reach that part of the shore opposite which the wreck lay. To my surprise the canal itself was in a storm, heaving and tossing and dashing over its banks.
Add to these personal traits the fact that he had dwelt in Roxton exactly two days and a half, and was already on speaking terms with most of the inhabitants, and you have a fair notion of John Trenholme's appearance and ways.
Most certainly the vague day-dreams evoked by her reading of books and converted into alluring vistas by an ever-widening horizon were not sated by the prospect of becoming the wife of either of the only two young men she knew. There was a big world beyond the confines of Roxton Park. There were interests in life that called with increasing insistence.
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