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He is brought up short, stopped in his career, perhaps disgraced." Sutch started a little at the word. "Yes, perhaps disgraced," Durrance repeated. "Well, the shock of the disgrace is, after all, his opportunity. Don't you see that? It's his opportunity to know himself at last.
Harry, I reckon myself as good as another when it comes to bravery, but for the life of me I could not have done that." "It was not pleasant," said Feversham, simply; and this was the only description of the interview between father and son which was vouchsafed to any one. But Lieutenant Sutch knew the father and knew the son. He could guess at all which that one adjective implied.
"You must go to Suakin. I will give you a letter to Willoughby, who is Deputy-Governor, and another to a Greek merchant there whom I know, and on whom you can draw for as much money as you require." "That's good of you, Durrance, upon my word," Sutch interrupted; and forgetting that he was talking to a blind man he held out his hand across the table.
"A man will bring to you a box of matches. When he comes trust him. Sutch." And he asked, "Who is Sutch?" "A great friend of mine," said Feversham. "He is in Egypt, then! Does he say where?" "No; but since Mohammed Ali, the grain merchant, dropped the paper, we may be sure he is at Suakin. A man with a box of matches! Think, we may meet him to-night!"
His servants could not satisfy him, however quickly they scuttled about the passages in search of this or that forgotten article of his old travelling outfit. Sutch, indeed, was in a boyish fever of excitement. It was not to be wondered at, perhaps.
He will, of course, enter the service, and he might learn something, perhaps, which afterward will be of use one never knows." "By all means," said Sutch, with alacrity. For since his visits to General Feversham were limited to the occasion of these anniversary dinners, he had never yet seen Harry Feversham.
Sutch was not aware that by any movement or exclamation he had betrayed his pleasure. His face, no doubt, showed it clearly enough, but Durrance could not see his face. Lieutenant Sutch was puzzled, but he did not deny the imputation. "It is true," he said stoutly. "I am very glad that she knows. I can quite see that from your point of view it would be better if she did not know.
He commits the fault which stops his career, he finds out his mistake, he sets himself to the work of retrieving his disgrace. Surely it's a case quite in point." "Yes, I see," Sutch agreed. "There is another view, a wrong view as I know, but I thought for the moment it was your view that Harry fancied himself to be a brave man and was suddenly brought up short by discovering that he was a coward.
Besides, for the credit of their regiment they are likely to hold their tongues when they return. Who else?" "Dermod Eustace and and Ethne." "They will not speak." "You, Durrance perhaps, and my father." Sutch leaned back in his chair and stared. "Your father! You wrote to him?" "No; I went into Surrey and told him."
Lieutenant Sutch was even more concerned this evening than he had been the night before. He saw Harry Feversham clearly now in a full light. Harry's face was thin and haggard with lack of sleep, there were black hollows beneath his eyes; he drew his breath and made his movements in a restless feverish fashion, his nerves seemed strung to breaking-point.
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