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She would have given a great deal to know Clemence Verney's conception of success. Miss Verney, when she presently appeared, in the wake of the impersonal and exclamatory young married woman who served as a background to her vivid outline, seemed competent to impart at short notice any information required of her. She had never struck Mrs. Peyton as more alert and efficient.
I suddenly put down the sextant, and having the rifle almost in position, I grabbed it suddenly with my left hand and fired into the thickest mob, whereupon a horrible howling filled the midnight air. Seizing Verney's rifle that was close by, I fired it and dispersed the foe. All the party were lying fast asleep on the tarpaulin, but my two shots quickly awoke them.
I said to myself, 'He's barmy he's gone off his rocker. I thought to myself I ought to drive him to the police station, but I reckoned it was none of my business, after all, so I'll take him to Verney's and be done with it. So I drove to Verney's. He got out, and paid me, but I couldn't see that he had been crying, and he looked much as usual, so far as I could see.
We left Verney's Wells and made up to the well in the Ferdinand that I have just mentioned. This we opened out with shovels, and found a very good supply of water. From thence we proceeded to my old dinner-camp at the range, where, as I said before, the whole space about, was filled up with fig-trees.
Did you go, after all?" he asked Caesar. They had not met since Warde's visit of the night before. "I didn't go," said Caesar. "Dumber gave it to me, with Verney's compliments." "You've lost your bet," said John. "But how?" "Jonathan went to town instead of me," said Desmond. "We thought he was with Warde he wasn't. This morning, early, I found out that he hadn't slept in his bed.
"Never mind," Scaife continued, "I won't burst the pretty bubble. And I admit, remember, Verney's cleverness." He was turning to go, but Desmond clutched his sleeve. When he spoke his fair face was scarlet. "You sneer at the wrong man and at the wrong time," he said angrily, "and you talk as though I was a fool. Well, I am a fool, perhaps, and I blow bubbles. Prick this one, if you can.
"Anthony, Anthony, I am loth to see you go, old friend!" cried the Colonel. "Tut, tut, as well leave my scalp in the woods as in Dick Verney's parlor! but I shall do neither. Hold the house as long as you can, and look for Carrington, and Fitzhugh, and Ludwell, and myself with a hundred men at our heels before the dawn. Until then vale." He was gone.
Certainly to Archie to anyone. Now I've only one thing to say. 'Do say it. 'That I never wish to hear Hyacinth Verney's name mentioned again. You are never to speak of her to me. Do you hear? 'Yes, Bruce. 'It is such a disillusion. I'm so shocked, so horrified, finding her a snake in the grass. 'Oh, I'm sure she didn't look a bit like a snake, Bruce.
The excitement of this discovery had nearly, in mid-concert, swept Mrs. Peyton from her seat to the girl's side. Fearing to miss the latter in the throng at the entrance, she slipped out during the last number and, lingering in the farther drawing-room, let the dispersing audience drift her in Miss Verney's direction.
He was as sober as a judge, all in a moment. 'No, sir, I didn't, I said. 'I wouldn't take the liberty, I said. 'Then get back on your seat and drive me to the Hyde Park Hotel no, I think I'll go to Verney's. But don't go there direct. Drive me round the Park first. I feel I want a breath of cool air."
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