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"Well," Kendrick continued, "Phipps attracts sympathy because of his lavish hospitality and apparent generosity, whilst Wingate is a man of many reserves and has few friends, either on this side or the other. Then Phipps, I should say, is the wealthier man, and in this present deal, at any rate, he has marvellous support, so that financially he must tower over Wingate.
"The sentiments which I entertain for your wife, Lord Dredlinton," Wingate declared, "are not sentiments of friendship." Dredlinton paused in the act of lighting a cigar. "What's that?" he exclaimed. "You mean that, after all, you've humbugged me, both of you?" "Not in the way you seem to imagine. This much, however, is true, and it is just as well that you should know it.
Well, if you wanter know in my opinion there never was any 'Lige Curtis!" Billings lifted his head with difficulty; Wingate turned his face to the speaker. "There never was a scrap o' paper ever found in his cabin with the name o' 'Lige Curtis on it; there never was any inquiry made for 'Lige Curtis; there never was any sorrowin' friends comin' after 'Lige Curtis. For why?
The victorious Overlanders with the assistance of Henry chased the lumber outfit to the river, into which the jacks plunged and waded across with all speed. "Don't you ever show your face in our camp again! Next time, if you do, it will be bullets, not clubs," Lieutenant Wingate shouted after the retreating attackers.
"After me they called up Brooke, and Calthorp, and Clements, and then old Wingate, Tom Wingate's father, who had examined them, seemed to get tired, and turned to Pierson, and said, 'Sir Richard, you ought to take your turn." And so Sir Richard began, and, as if by accident, called up Den. "'Mr. Duval, said he, 'how do you find the variation of the compass by the amplitudes or azimuths?
His experience as a fighting aviator in France had made Hippy somewhat callous to bullets, as well as an expert in ducking. In the present instance, Lieutenant Wingate made so many ducks and dives, side-slips and Immelman turns that the mountaineer, crack shot that he was, found himself unable to score a hit. The darkness, too, prevented his getting a good sight at the man he was trying to shoot.
It sailed up and up in a long curve, began to drop, passed over the piazza roof, and out of sight. "'Lock your door, Miss Sterzer, sung out Fred Bearse 'Willie' for short. 'Lock your door and keep that ball. I think your father's paper is inside it. "As sure as my name is Barzilla Wingate, he had kicked that football straight through the open window into old Gabe's room."
Wingate and his wife were talking heatedly, she in her nervousness not knowing that she fumbled over and over in her fingers the heavy bit of rock which Molly had picked up and which was in her handkerchief when it was requisitioned by her mother to bathe her face just now. After a time she tossed the nugget aside into the grass. It was trodden by a hundred feet ere long. But gold will not die.
Hippy was a little taken back by the answer, but his eagerness for more information overcame what might have become embarrassment. "Your father! Do you think he would sell the section?" he asked eagerly. "No sell." "But I wish to buy it, Willy." "You buy?" questioned the Indian, regarding Lieutenant Wingate thoughtfully. "Yes." "You Big Friend. Me fix." "Do you mean it?" "Me fix." "Good. When?"
"'Thankin' you for the compliment, it ain't, I says. 'My name's Wingate. "'Oh! says he. 'Is that so? I've heard father speak of you, Mr. Wingate. He is Solomon Bearse, of West Ostable. I think you know him slightly. "Know him? Everybody on the Cape knows Sol Bearse; by reputation, anyhow. He's the richest, meanest old cranberry grower and coastin'-fleet owner in these parts.
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