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He opened the door and entered without knocking. Soolsby was seated at a table, a map and a newspaper spread out before him. Egypt and David, always David and Egypt! Soolsby got to his feet slowly, his eyes fixed inquiringly on his visitor. "I didn't knock," said Eglington, taking off his greatcoat and reaching for a chair; then added, as he seated himself: "Better sit down, Soolsby."
I am not to be held back then, unless I change my mind when I see him. Well, 'tis three years since " "Three years! Time hasn't flown. Is it not like an old memory, his living here in this house, Soolsby, and all that happened then?" Soolsby looked at her over his glasses, resting his chin on the back of the chair he was caning, and his lips worked in and out with a suppressed smile.
I was being coaxed along made believe I was a real man, I suppose. But I wasn't. I was a pillar of sand. When pressure came I just broke down broke down, Egyptian. Don't be surprised if you hear me grunt. It's my natural speech. I'm a hog, a drink-swilling hog. I wasn't decent enough to stay sober till you had said 'Good day, and 'How goes it, Soolsby? I tried it on; it was no good.
Fifteen years ago you came to see my father, and now you have come to see me all in the light o' the moon, as it were; like a villain in a play. Ah, yes, you said it was to make an experiment yet you didn't know what oxygen was! It's foolish making experiments, unless you know what you are playing with, Soolsby. See, here are two glasses." He held them up.
Slowly Eglington moved back to put the retort on a long table against the wall, and Soolsby stepped forward till he stood where the electric sparks were gently hissing about him. Now Eglington leaned against the table, poured some alcohol on his fingers to cleanse the acid from them, and wiped them with a piece of linen, while he looked inquiringly at Soolsby. Still, Soolsby did not speak.
"Ay, she would have come, she would have come," Soolsby answered, "but she was not fit for the journey, and there was little time, my lord." "Why did thee come, Soolsby? Only to welcome me back?" "I come to bring you back to England, to your duty there, my lord." The first time Soolsby had used the words "my lord," David had scarcely noticed it, but its repetition struck him strangely.
Even as Soolsby had done, who went no further than to tell Eglington his dark tale, and told no one else, withholding it from "Our Man"; as Sybil Lady Eglington had shrunk when she had been faced by her obvious duty, so Hylda hesitated, but from better reason than either. To do right in the matter was to strike her husband it must be a blow now, since her voice had failed.
See, the soldiers are moving. They're going to ride out to meet him." She made a gesture towards the far shore where Kaid's men were saddling their horses, and to Nahoum's and Kaid's dahabiehs, where there was a great stir. "There's one from Hamley will meet them first," Soolsby said, and pointed to where Hylda, in the desert, was riding towards the camels coming out of the south.
From the door of the but Soolsby muttered to himself: "I will bring you back. If Luke Claridge doesn't, then I will bring you back. If he dies, I will bring you no, by the love of God, I will bring you back while he lives!" Two thousand miles away, in a Nile village, women sat wailing in dark doorways, dust on their heads, black mantles covering their faces.
I held my peace, not for him, but for her for the promise I made her when she smiled at me and said: 'If I shouldn't be seeing thee again, Soolsby, remember; and if thee can ever prove a friend to the child that is to be, prove it. And I will prove it now. He must come back to his own. Right's right, and I will have it so.
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