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Toby what?" "Toby Wright, sir." Very promptly the answer came. Saltash's eyes scrutinized him with half derisive amusement. "I hope it's a good fit," he remarked. "Well, look here, Toby, you must go to bed. Did you bring any luggage on board?" "No, sir. 'Fraid not, sir. Very sorry, sir. I came away in a hurry," explained Toby rather nervously. "And stole the hotel livery," said Saltash. "No, sir.
He kept his arm round Fielding, and in a few moments succeeded in drawing him aside. He put him into a chair by the table, poured out some brandy and water, and made him drink it. Looking up a moment later, he found Saltash's odd eyes curiously upon him. He returned the look with a conscious sense of antagonism, but Saltash almost immediately turned away.
Can't you fix it up immediately? And you can have the little car and leave of absence till you've got over it. Old Bishop can run this show till the winter. Maud can fit up the Dower House for you. And I shall feel at liberty to roam the desert once more unencumbered." "You're jolly decent to me!" said Bunny. "Think so?" Saltash's brows twitched humorously.
All the visitors in the town were congregated about the shore, or were rowing in pleasure boats near the centre of attraction. The yacht lay moored to the quay on which by Saltash's orders a long strip of red carpet had been laid leading to the gangway which was decorated with trails of flowers.
A vein of sincerity mingled with the banter in his voice, and Bunny was aware of a curious quality of reverence, of something sacred in a waste place. It affected him oddly. Convinced though he was that in one point at least Saltash had sought to deceive him it yet influenced him very strongly in Saltash's favour. Against his judgment, against his will even, he saw him as a friend.
"But you'll keep me with you, sir," said Toby swiftly. "You'll keep me always with you!" "Ah!" Saltash's brows twisted oddly for a second. He seemed to ponder the matter. "I can't say off-hand what I'm going to do with you," he said. "You're a bit of a problem, you know, Toby." "Yes, sir. I know. I know." Toby's voice was quick with agitation. "But you won't send me away from you!
"I don't follow you," said Jake deliberately. "You married your wife to deliver her from a fate you deemed unsuitable." Saltash's teeth showed for a moment in answer to the gleam in Jake's eyes. "You did it in an almighty hurry too." "But damn it she needed protection!" Jake said. "And at least I loved her!" Saltash bowed. "Hence your motive was an entirely selfish one.
Juliet's cigarette remained poised in the act of kindling, but no smoke came from her lips. She had the look of one who listens with almost painful intentness. The flame of the lighted match licked Saltash's fingers, and he dropped it. "Pardon my clumsiness! Let's try again! So you know Yardley, do you?" He flung the words at Dick. "Quite the coming man in his profession.
But even when free from the traffic, he did not speak or turn towards his companion, merely gave himself to the task of covering the ground as quickly as possible. In the end it was Toby who spoke, abruptly, boyishly. "By jingo! You can drive!" Saltash's face showed its own elastic grin. "You like this?" "Rather!" said Toby with enthusiasm.
"Columbus, my acknowledgments though I am quite well aware that your eloquent appeal is not made on my behalf! You know what the little beggar is asking for, don't you?" Dick laid a soothing hand on the grizzled head. "All right, Columbus!" he said. Saltash's smile leapt out again. "Oh, it's all right, is it? I am to have a free pardon then for boosting you over your last fence?"
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