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Winstay, he said, was of good English family, with an old house in Harrow fortunately on the London and North Western Railway, so that he could easily get a breath of country air on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. The life that had been risked for the larger cause, she vaguely felt as enfranchised from the limitations of the smaller.
"Yes," said Sir Stephen. "I thought you'd like him." "Good heavens!" exclaimed Stafford. "You don't mean that you have bought him for me, sir! I know that Winstay refused eight hundred guineas for him." "I daresay," replied Sir Stephen. "Why shouldn't I buy him for you, my boy? There's another one in the box next that one; a little stiffer. I'm told he's up to your weight and "
Her brain was busy piecing it all together. Yes, she understood it all now those sedulous Saturday and Sunday afternoons at Harrow. She lived at Harrow, then, this Christian, this grateful sister of the rescued Winstay: it was she who had steadied his life; hers were those 'fat letters, faintly aromatic.
I never hid it from her brother, so why shouldn't she know? But her father's a bit of a crank, so I rather avoid the subject. 'A crank? About Jews? 'Well, old Winstay has got it into his noddle that the Jews are responsible for the war and that they leave the fighting to the English. It's rather sickening: even in South Africa we are not treated as we should be, considering
The local commando fell on our cattle-guard the other day a hundred and fifty to our twenty-five and we suffered; it was a horrible bit of country. There was a young chap, Winstay rather a pal of mine he had a narrow squeak, knocked over by a shot in his breast.
And now that he had practically unlimited money to spend, he did not seem to be spending it, but to be keeping better hours than when dodging his father's eye. His only absences from home he accounted for as visits to Winstay, his pal of the campaign, with whom he had got chummier than ever since the affair of the cattle-guard.
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