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Tollemache, too, gave a queer little nod to the American, who had moved near to Isobel and placed a hand on her shoulder. Elsie was quite sure that Gray whispered: "For goodness' sake, don't cause a scene!" And, indeed, he did ask Isobel and Mrs. Somerville, with some curtness, to restrain themselves.
Meanwhile, the meeting between Tollemache and Gray was full of racial subtleties. Tollemache, stepping forward to grasp Gray's hand, felt it was incumbent on him to utter the first word. "Had a pretty rotten time of it, I expect?" said he. "Poisonous. And you?" "Oh, fair. Beastly close squeak when you turned up."
Brooke?" "Yes, sir; and he begged me to say that he was extremely glad to get the news, and much obliged to you for sending it so promptly." "There is no occasion for you and Mr. Tollemache to stay here any longer, now; but at five o'clock I shall ride out to the pagoda. At any rate, should I want you before then, I shall know where to send for you."
Tollemache, Frascuelo, and three Chileans were engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with nearly a score of savages; the doctor could distinguish the cries of the combatants, the irregular stamping of boot-shod feet.
She was as determined as ever to cross the bay and endeavor to communicate with the imprisoned men. But she recognized the absurdity of the thought that Courtenay and Tollemache would consent to escape in the canoe and leave the others to their fate, even if such a thing were practicable. Oddly enough, the one person whose daring might reasonably be suspected, gave no signs of the pangs of doubt.
A fleet of canoes put off from Otter Creek. There was every prospect of a fight before they reached their fortress. They had a long two miles to travel, and the Indians could attack them ere they covered half the distance. Gray and Tollemache were sitting together in the fore part of the boat.
Refuse whom you please go where you please get what friends, and what admirers, and what establishment you can I have nothing more to do with it I will never more undertake the management of young people. There's your sister Tollemache has made a pretty return for all my kindness! she is going to be parted from her husband, and basely throws all the blame upon me.
He disliked these references to the Alaculof bogy in Elsie's presence. It was enough that it should exist without being constantly paraded. Though the girl herself was the culprit, Tollemache should have left the topic alone. But Tollemache was a man of fixed ideas.
"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.
Tollemache she received coldly; he had defended Robert Penfold feebly, and she hated him for it. Hennessy she received graciously, and, remembering Robert's precept to be supple as a woman, bewitched him. He was good-natured, able and vain. By eleven o'clock she had enlisted him in her service.
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