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The second slight-built gendarme at the door, proved to be General Sir George Higginson, most admirably made up. My father insisted on the two gendarmes dining with us. As our servants were not in the secret, the presence of two French policemen in uniform at the family dinner-table must have rather surprised them. I must plead guilty myself to another attempt at impersonation.
After which he accompanied a caravan for Jenne; and on the 10th March crossed the Niger, which appeared to be about 500 feet broad at that point. On the 23rd March he embarked on the Joliba, in a slight-built vessel, fastened together by cords, and of about 60 tons burden. On the 2nd April they came to the place where the river widens into the great lake Dibbe.
He was a slight-built, slope-shouldered young fellow, in prison garb, with a meager visage heavily furrowed with sickness and suffering he had tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis, and the indigestion with which all prisoners who eat the regular prison fare are afflicted. In his haggard face shone a pair of very intelligent and kindly gray eyes, and above them rose a compact, well-filled forehead.
Even among his like, he has his own criteria by which one 'white man' knows another, and coheres with him politically. Most strongly contrasted externally with the 'Boreal' type is the slight-built Mediterranean brunet.
"Who the blue blazes are you?" countered the barefoot man, his eyes running contemptuously over the shabby and slight-built figure. "My name is Brice," said the other. "Gavin Brice. Not that it matters. And now, perhaps you'll answer my question. Whose dog is that?" "Mine," returned the barefoot man, renewing his effort to drag the collie toward the boat.
Shelton hurried out, and was about to run down the lower lawn, when he was accosted by another person walking in the sunshine a slight-built man in a turned-down collar, with a thin and fair moustache, and a faint bluish tint on one side of his high forehead, caused by a network of thin veins.
The other was a small, slight-built person, with a nervous, intelligent face, and bright eyes peering out from under eyebrows which he was incessantly twitching. He was just now manifesting unmistakable signs of impatience, nervously pacing up and down, and unable to stand still for a moment. This was Fix, one of the detectives who had been despatched from England in search of the bank robber.
He could see the three men bending over Forrester. Their voices came in confused, broken, snatches: "... Dead!... Good God!... Are you sure?... Perhaps he's only fainted.... No, he's dead, poor devil!..." And then one of the men, the youngest of the three, a slight-built, clean-shaven, dark-eyed man of perhaps twenty-eight or thirty, rose abruptly, and glanced sharply around the room.
Chickerel had directed a maid-servant known as Jane to receive his humbler daughter and make her comfortable; and that friendly person, who spoke as if she had known Picotee five-and-twenty years, took her to the housekeeper's room, where the visitor deposited her jacket and hat, and rested awhile. A quick-eyed, light-haired, slight-built woman came in when Jane had gone.
In civilian clothes he bore a more distinct resemblance to the man he had been; and yet the resemblance only served to emphasize the change that had taken place in him. The old Braithwaite had been a slight-built, gentle creature, loyal to the point of self-effacement, soft-spoken and dependent on the appreciation of a master for his happiness.
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