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Rosamond Tallant had been tiresome also and had made her feel that even here she was no more than a dependent who must conform to the wills of her official superiors. Joan Gildea might have served as a safety-valve, but Joan was away in or near the Jenolan Caves, and could not be got at unless Bridget chose to throw up other things and go to her, which Bridget was not inclined to do.
It is possible you may have sold the place. I hear of severe droughts in parts of Leichardt's Land, but have no information about the Leura district. Now that Sir Luke Tallant has exchanged to Hong Kong, Bridget hasn't any touch with Leichardt's Land, and I have very few correspondents there. Write to me not a stilted, legal kind of letter like the last.
I'm not sure, though, that either Rosamond or Luke approve of my drawing the Leichardt's Town people into my mysterious sphere of influence. 'I think, if you ask me, that Lady Tallant is a bit of a cat, and Sir Luke more than a bit of a prig. 'No. You mustn't say a word against them. It was not in Bridget to be disloyal. 'They've given me the time of my life.
"All right!" they both ejaculated at once. "We win," I said. They stood gazing at me. Even Dickinson, who was rarely ruffled, seemed excited. "Do you mean to say you've fixed it?" he demanded. I nodded. They stared at me in amazement. "How the deuce did you manage it?" "We organize the Interurban Telephone Company, and bid for the franchise that's all." "A dummy company!" cried Tallant.
She threw away the end of her cigarette. 'Well, so you've become the Governor's unconstitutional adviser? she said. 'Joan, do you know that Luke Tallant kept Mr McKeith talking and smoking in the loggia just below my bedroom for hours last night after every one had gone I know, because I couldn't get to sleep. McKeith had all compunction, 'I'm downright sorry for that, Lady Bridget.
Other conservative newspapers followed suit.... Both Tallant and I were surprised to hear these sentiments out of the mouth of Mr. Jason. "You don't think that crowd's going to win, do you?" asked the owner of the Era, a trifle uneasily. "Win!" exclaimed the boss contemptuously. "They'll blow up, and you'll never hear of 'em.
Bridget skimmed through the groups of admirers, stopping to murmur something to Lady Tallant who had met her half way; then stopped with hands before her like a meek schoolgirl, in front of Mrs Gildea and Colin McKeith he almost the only man who had made no movement towards her. Bridget sank into her former seat.
Miller Gorse was there, and Tallant, waving a palm-leaf while sitting under the electric fan. They were all very grave, and they began to talk about the suddenness of Mr. Watling's illness and to speculate upon its nature.
Our resentment was directed, not so much against Commissioner Greenhalge as against Krebs. It is curious how keen is the instinct of men like Grierson, Dickinson, Tallant and Scherer for the really dangerous opponent. Who the deuce was this man Krebs?
We "operated," like burglars; we "looted": only, it was intimated in one place, "second-story men" were angels compared to us, who had never seen the inside of a penitentiary. Here we were, all arraigned before the bar of public opinion, the relentless Dickinson, the surfeited Scherer, the rapacious Grierson, the salacious Tallant.
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