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Updated: June 12, 2025
Sobieski touched Barry Whalen's arm, and they all stood waiting while a hand slowly opened wide the door of the little room, and, white with a mastered agitation, Byng appeared. For a moment he looked them all full in the face, yet as though he did not see them; and then, without a word, as they stepped aside to make way for him, he passed down the room to the outer hallway.
Norah stepped firmly into the fray. "Yes, doesn't one? What a comfort it must be to you to know that your dear girls are safe at home with you, and no doubt will be secure, for years to come, from the buffeting winds of matrimony." There was a tinge of purple in Mrs. Whalen's face as she moved toward the door, gathering her brood about her.
You're the only real politician among us. Some one else must go to Johannesburg." "You Barry?" "You know I can't, Byng there's my girl. Besides, I don't carry enough weight, anyhow, and you know that too." Byng remembered Whalen's girl stricken down with consumption a few months before. He caught Whalen's arm in a grip of friendship. "All right, dear old man," he said, kindly.
"The Baas!" mocked Barry Whalen, swinging round again. "The Baas is gone to find a rope to tie Oom Paul to a tree, as Oom Paul tied you at Lichtenburg." Slowly Krool's eyes went round the room, and then settled on Barry Whalen's face with owl-like gravity. "What the Baas does goes good," he said. "When the Baas ties, Alles zal recht kom."
Whalen's sentence was to have been carried out a month from the time he was tried; but as there was a strong feeling of indignation in the regiment about the severity of his sentence, a recommendation for pardon was presented to General Pillow, and Whalen was reprieved and sent to Memphis. He was at last pardoned, and transferred into a regiment which went to Virginia.
Then Barry Whalen's gossip suddenly came to his mind, and he added: "Fellowes will want to get married some day. That face and manner will lead him into ways from which there's only one outlet." "Matrimony?" She laughed. "Oh dear, no, Adrian is much too selfish to marry." "I thought that selfishness was one of the elements of successful marriages. I've been told so."
We don't do it in Thamesfontein, my noble buccaneer not even in Barry Whalen's mansion in Ladbroke Square, where Barry Whalen, Esq., puts his silk hat on the hall table, and and, 'If you please, sir, your bath is ready'! ... Don't be an idiot-child, Barry, and don't spoil my best sentences when I let myself go.
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