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'You needn't trouble, Mrs Tresize assured him sweetly. 'Your money's good and so will be mine when it comes to settling, for all that I'm reported "near." Good-night! 'Good-night! growled Butcher Truman, and lurched forth with his bag. The widow, staring after him, broke into a laugh. 'Tryphena, she said, 'fetch the doctor's horse and harness him quick! We must get him out of this, good man.
A little later they saw that both balls were on the green, although Bob's was several yards the nearer. Trevanion examined the ground carefully. He felt that much depended on the approach putt. If he laid himself dead, he was sure he could not be beaten. Every one stood breathless while the ball ran over the hummocky ground. "By gosh, it's too merry!" gasped George Tresize.
"I suppose," hazarded the Admiral, "it helps the police in identifying criminals." "But the letter says 'all the prisoners. You don't seriously tell me that anyone wants a photograph to identify Poacher Tresize, whom I've committed a score of times if I've committed him once? And perhaps you'll explain to me this further demand for a 'Composite Photograph' of all the prisoners, male and female.
Admiral Tresize and he had had many arguments about this, and when the Boer War broke out, the condemnation of the doctor was so strong that it seemed almost inevitable that he and the Admiral should quarrel. Indeed, a coolness did spring up between them, and but for the fact that Mrs.
They saw the way of duty clearly, and were going to follow it, while he must go in the opposite direction, and thereby lose oh God, he could not bear it! He felt himself a pariah. He was no longer wanted, his presence would no longer be tolerated. Even his friend, Dick Tresize, would turn his back on him if he attempted to join him.
A ghastly affair, I'll admit, but everything can be settled." "Has Admiral Tresize mentioned a letter which he received from Vienna a day or two ago?" I asked. "Yes," replied Bob, "but of course it was pure imagination. Do you know, I admire the Kaiser. He's a good man, a religious man." I coughed.
"It is because our boys don't understand, don't realise what we are fighting for," said one to another; and then we heard with delight that Admiral Tresize and the Member of Parliament for St. Ia were arranging for a public meeting, at which truth should be made known. During this time Bob Nancarrow was much alone.
"Who suggested it, then?" "Oh, it was Miss Tresize here. She thinks it such a disgrace for any man to shirk at such a time as this, that she thought they should be shamed to some sense of decency and pluck." "Three cheers for Miss Tresize!" shouted some one, and a minute later, Nancy, half-angry and half-pleased, was blushing at the shouts of her friends.
'It doesn't refer to my age at all, said Mrs Tresize, positively. 'It it alludes to something quite different. I was barely nineteen when I married. 'If you can guess to what it alludes 'Reported good money, but near read the widow, paused, and uttered a liquid laugh. 'Oh, I am glad you showed me this. We'll punish him for that, doctor, if he dares to turn up.
Mrs Tresize stood by the table, and so that, glancing sideways across her left shoulder, her eyes studied the doctor's back, which he kept obstinately turned upon her. He had put up a hand to the chimney-shelf and leaned forward with his gaze bent on the embers. 'Doctor? 'Ma'am? after a long pause. 'Do you really reckon smuggling so very sinful? 'It is not a question of smuggling, ma'am.
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