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He raced across to starboard, and found that, by unfortunate mischance, a Chilean fireman in Tollemache's detachment had been shot through the brain. The poor fellow was prone on the deck; it was only too evident that a doctor's skill could avail him naught, so Tollemache had decided that he should not be taken below. The incident marred an easily won victory.
Indeed, Courtenay soon found that some of the assailants were already screened by the ship's bows, but the larger number were clustered thickly round Tollemache's infernal machines. It was well that a cool-headed sailor was called on to deal with this emergency.
Tollemache, what had she, in the devil's name, to set up with in the world but a pair of good eyes? her aunt, to be sure, taught her the use of them early enough: they might have rolled to all eternity before they would have rolled me out of my senses; but you see they did Tollemache's business.
"It is worth trying," was Courtenay's brief comment, though he saw later that Tollemache's suggestion was a very useful one. It was a simple matter to fill in the few contours given.
If any one wishes to know what the late Master of Balliol was really like in his social aspect, I should refer him, not to the two volumes of his Biography, nor even to the amusing chit-chat of Mr. Lionel Tollemache's Recollections, but to the cleverest work of a very clever Balliol man Mr. W.H. Mallock's New Republic. The description of Mr.
"Sorry, my dear," said a tall thin man, rising from a camp-stool. "Good gracious, it's Mr. Tollemache," whispered Elsie. "Gad, so it is. Let's hail him." Tollemache's solemn face brightened when he heard the hail. He introduced his wife, an eminently artistic being who answered to the name of Jennie. She at once enlisted Elsie in an argument as to atmospheres, but Tollemache drew Courtenay aside.