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Updated: May 10, 2025
First of all you saved my Lord of Wisbech's daughters; then, as Prince Rupert tells me, you saved him and all on board his ship from being burned; and now a miracle has well-nigh happened in your favour. I see, too, that you have the use of your arm, which the Prince doubted would ever altogether recover." "More still, Your Majesty," the Prince said.
It was in most respects a fortuitous moment for Wisbech's nephew to meet him, and the older man smiled as Nasmyth strode along the track to grasp his outstretched hand. "I'm glad to see you, Derrick," said Wisbech, who drew back a pace and looked at his nephew critically. "You have changed since I last shook hands with you in London, my lad," he continued.
His companions watched him closely, and Acton, who looked round for a moment, noticed the suggestive glint in Wisbech's eyes. Nasmyth straightened himself suddenly. "I know what I am turning my back upon," he added. "It is very probable that I shall never get another opportunity of this kind again. Still, I owe the boys something, and I feel I owe a little to myself.
Why did you take the trouble to make me understand that you were doing nothing unusual when you asked me to dinner?" Laura laughed. "Well," she said, "if one must be accurate, I do not exactly know. I may have been a little unwise in endeavouring to impress it on you. Why did you consider it worth while to explain you had very seldom been in the saddle?" Wisbech's manner became confidential.
They're rather primitive," he said. Wisbech's eyes twinkled. "I almost think I shall feel as much at home as I did when you last entertained me at your club, and I'm not sure that I don't like your new friends best," he said. "The others were a trifle patronizing, though, perhaps, they didn't mean to be. In fact, it was rather a plucky thing you did that day."
"I wonder why you should seem so sure of that. As a matter of fact, he had rather more than thirty dollars in his possession when he set out from the logging camp, but on the journey he lost the belt he kept the money in." A queer light crept into Wisbech's eyes. "That is just the kind of thing one would expect Derrick Nasmyth to do. You see, as I pointed out, he is my nephew."
He turned to Wisbech. "Now if you will listen, I will tell you something." For the next few minutes he described his project for running the water out of the valley, and when he sat silent again there was satisfaction in Wisbech's face. "Well," said Wisbech, "I am going to give you your opportunity.
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