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The da Silvas had long had here a manor-house with a chapel, and in 1452 Dona Brites de Menezes, the wife of Ayres Gomes da Silva, the fourth lord of Vagos, founded a small Jeronymite monastery. Of her chapel, designed by Gil de Souza, little now remains, for the chancel was rebuilt in the next century and the nave in the seventeenth.
I had made a large map upon the wall and followed the course of the war as far as possible by making squares of red and green paper to represent the various columns. I said: 'What about Methuen? He has beaten you at Belmont. Now he should be across the Modder. In a few days he will relieve Kimberley. De Souza shrugged his shoulders. Long, dull, and profitless were the days.
"Why don't you fill her glass? That's right!" "Hiram!" Da Souza removed his hand from the back of his neighbour's chair and endeavoured to look unconscious. The girl tittered Mrs. Da Souza was severely dignified. Trent watched them all, half in amusement, half in disgust. What a pandemonium! It was time indeed for him to get rid of them all.
If ever he got there, what would be the price of Bekwando shares on the morrow? On the bridge Da Souza saw him accost a policeman, and brushing close by, heard him ask the same question. The man shook his head, but pointed eastwards. "I can't say exactly, sir, but somewhere in the City, for certain," he answered.
All around were preparations for landing boxes were being hauled up from the hold, and people were going about in reach of small parcels and deck-chairs and missing acquaintances. Trent, in white linen clothes and puggaree, was leaning over the railing, gazing towards the town, when Da Souza came up to him "Last morning, Mr. Trent!" Trent glanced round and nodded.
For four years he studied the morbid phenomena in the tissues of these sufferers at last consigned to their end. First one, and then another, and then a third and a fourth exhibited a striking hypertrophy of the pituitary body and a consequent widening of the portion of the base of the skull which cradles the gland. He proceeded to say so in the graduating thesis of his pupil, Souza Leite.
There was a new world and a greater, if fortune willed that he should enter it. Trent was awakened next morning by the sound of carriage wheels in the drive below. He rang his bell at once. After a few moments' delay it was answered by one of his two men-servants. "Whose carriage is that in the drive?" he asked. "It is a fly for Mr. Da Souza, sir." "What! has he gone?" Trent exclaimed.
"I came," Da Souza answered, "in both our interests chiefly in my own!" "I can believe that," Trent answered shortly, "now speak up. Tell me what you want." Da Souza groaned and sank down upon a vacant deck-chair. "I will sit down," he said, "I am not well! The sea disagrees with me horribly. Well, well, you want to know why I came here! I can answer that question by another.
Da Souza seems to be selling out carefully a few at a time, and my brokers are buying most of them. Pound shares are nineteen shillings to-day. They'll be between three and four pounds, a week after I get back." "And when shall you go?" the boy asked. "Directly I get a man out here I can trust and things are fixed with his Majesty the King of Bekwando!
For it was Da Souza who had fired the train, who had flung his large holding of shares upon the market, and, finding them promptly taken up, had gone about with many pious exclamations of thankfulness and sinister remarks. Many smaller holders followed suit, and yet never for a moment did the market waver.
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