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You, is it? Where's the boss?" A black-haired, black-eyed lad of about three-and-twenty, handsome, spare, and very upright, had come suddenly round the corner of a building. He greeted Saltash with enthusiasm. "Why, Charlie! I'm awfully pleased to see you! We all thought you were done for. How are you, I say? It was rotten luck for you to lose the poor old Night Moth like that.
Dick surveyed them with compunction. "I say, they're wet through! You must take them off at once. Get into the boat!" "No, no!" She laughed again with more assurance. "I am not going to take them off. We couldn't dry them if I did, and I should never get them on again. Do you think we ought to get into the boat? Suppose the owner came along?" "The owner? Lord Saltash, do you mean?"
"I'd kill anyone else that said so." "Oh, you needn't do that!" said Saltash, with kindly derision. "Thanks all the same, my turkey-cock! If I ever need your protection I'll be sure to ask for it." He flicked the young face with his finger. "But you're not to follow my example, mind. You've got to run straight. You're young enough to make it worth while, and I'll see you have a chance."
"Tell him that I've enjoyed seeing the animals, and I think he has a very fine show! I never could understand how Saltash could bring himself to part with the stud." "He's so seldom at home," said Bunny. "Yachting is much more in his line though as a matter of fact he is at the Castle just now, came back yesterday." "Is he indeed? Are you sure of that?" Sheila spoke with surprise.
You will see I hardly know what you will not see you will see Ram Head, and Cawsand Bay; and then you will see the Breakwater, and Drake's Island, and the Devil's Bridge below you; and the town of Plymouth and its fortifications, and the Hoe; and then you will come to the Devil's Point, round which the tide runs devilish strong; and then you will see the New Victualling Office, about which Sir James Gordon used to stump all day, and take a pinch of snuff from every man who carried a box, which all were delighted to give, and he was delighted to receive, proving how much pleasure may be communicated merely by a pinch of snuff and then you will see Mount Wise and Mutton Cove; the town of Devonport, with its magnificent dockyard and arsenals, North Corner, and the way which leads to Saltash.
Saltash, carelessly sauntering in the doctor's wake, found himself the object of considerable interest on the part of those passengers who were already up in the murk of the early morning. He was stopped by several to receive congratulations upon his escape, but he refused to be detained for long. He had business below, he said, and the doctor was waiting.
They held a shadowy smile. "Dick, I was just going to say that to you!" He pressed her to his heart. "Ah, my Juliet!" he said. "Could anything matter to us anything on earth except our love?" In the deep silence her lips answered his. There was no further need for words. "I'm not quite sure that I call this fair play," said Saltash with a comical twist of the eyebrows.
Saltash turned his head towards Jake, watching him half furtively through the smoke. There followed a silence of some duration. Jake's brows were slightly drawn. He spoke at last, slowly and softly as his manner was. "Are you suggesting that Captain Larpent's daughter should come to us?" "She'd be useful enough," said Saltash in his quick, vehement way. "She'd help Maud with the children.
Saltash made an excruciating grimace. "My good fellow, spare me! That's just where the shoe pinches. I've broken faith with her already. But damnation! what else could I do? I didn't choose the part of virtuous hero. It was thrust upon me. The gods are making sport of me. I am lost in a labyrinth of virtue, and horribly most horribly sick of it.
The vivid colours of his injured eye had faded to a uniform dull yellow, and he no longer wore a bandage. When they put to sea again he was no longer an invalid. He followed Saltash wherever he went, attended scrupulously to his comfort, and when not needed was content to sit curled up like a dog close to him, dumb in his devotion but always ready to serve him.
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