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But John Trenchard, of whose life and death I have tried elsewhere to say something, was young Bohun's opposite, and I do not think that the strange unexpectedness of Russia can he exemplified more strongly than by the similarity of appeal that she could make to two so various characters.
To Nikitin she was the face of one woman upon whose eyes his own were always fixed. To Marie Ivanovna she was a flaming glorious wonder, mystical, transplendent, revealed in every blade of grass, every flash of sun across the sky, every line of the road, the top of every hill. And to Trenchard and myself? For Trenchard she had, perhaps, taken to herself some part of his beloved country.
Trenchard declared that he had always spoken of His Majesty as a subject ought to speak of an excellent sovereign, who had been deceived by evil counsellors, and who would be grateful to those who should bring the truth to his knowledge. He vehemently denied that he had called the grant to Lady Orkney villainous.
Bribed by a certain Sir Rowland Trenchard, Jonathan kidnapped the carpenter's adopted son, Thames Darrell, and placed him in the hands of a Dutch Skipper, with orders to throw him overboard when he got out to sea; and though this was proved as clear as day, the rascal managed matters so adroitly, and gave such a different complexion to the whole affair, that he came off with flying colours.
Wilding was gone with Trenchard to White Lackington in a vain hope that there he might find news to confirm his persisting unbelief in any such rashness as was alleged on Monmouth's part. So Blake was forced to wait, but his purpose suffered nothing by delay. Returning on the morrow, he found Mr. Wilding at table with Nick Trenchard, and he cut short the greetings of both men.
When he reached his room, he found upon his table the envelope which Trenchard had directed to him. He opened it, and unwrapped the key from the inclosed sheet of note-paper, on which were written these words: "Dear Jack, "I am off again. And this time I can't say when I shall be back. In any case, I have completed my part of the book, and leave the finishing of it in your hands.
He drew both his pistols, and prepared for a desperate encounter. "There is another mystery I would have solved," said Trenchard, addressing Wild; "you have told me much, but not enough." "What do you require further?" asked Jonathan. "The name and rank of Thames Darrell's father," said the knight. "Another time," replied the thief-taker, evasively.
"Not now, I thank you," answered Richard. "You are thinking of the last occasion on which I drank with you," said Trenchard reproachfully. "Not so. But... but I am not thirsty." "Not thirsty?" echoed Trenchard. "And is that a reason? Why, lad, it is the beast that drinks only when he thirsts. And in that lies one of the main differences between beast and man.
"Ah, a haunted house, Anthony," said I, glancing at the place with perfunctory interest. "So the yokels say hereabouts, Perry, but if half what I hear is true, it is haunted by things far worse more evil than ghosts." "Meaning what?" I questioned. "Well, it is owned by a person of the name of Trenchard who seems to be a rich mixture of gentlemanly ruffian, Turkish bashaw and the devil.
"But how lost?" he cried a moment later. "Ask Grey," snapped Trenchard. "Ask his craven, numskulled lordship. He had as good a hand in losing it as any. Oh, it was all most infernally mishandled, as has been everything in this ill-starred rising. Grey sent back Godfrey, the guide, and attempted in the dark to find his own way across the rhine. He missed the ford.
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