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But that little bit of frontier there is so little known and apparently so remote that I begin to be afraid of trouble in that direction. What do you think?" Wratislaw shook his head. He had no opinion to offer. "At any rate, you need fear no awkward questions in the House, for this sort of thing cannot be public for months." "I am wondering whether somebody should not go out.
Arthur and George, resigned now to the inevitable lady, had seen in the incident only the anxiety of a man for his beloved, and just a hint of the ungenerous in his treatment of Mr. Stocks. They were not prepared for the silent tragic figure which Wratislaw brought with him. Arthur had a glint of the truth, but the obtuse George saw nothing.
He tested the guns, gave his verdict on rods, and ranged through a cabinet of sporting requisites. Then he fell on his host's books, and for an hour the three were content to listen to him. It was rarely that Wratislaw fell into such moods, but when the chance came it was not to be lightly disregarded.
Lewis Haystoun, whom she was never likely to meet again, became a figure of interest in her eyes. She turned to say something more, but Wratislaw, having unburdened his soul to some one, and feeling a little relieved, was watching his chief's face further down the table.
Somebody quite unofficial and sufficiently clever." "My thought too," said Beauregard. "The pinch is where to get our man from. I have been casting up possibilities all day, and this one is too clever, another too dull, another too timid, and another too hare-brained." Wratislaw seemed sunk in a brown study. "Do you remember my telling you once about my friend Lewis Haystoun?" he asked.
Lieutenants Young, Wilson, Hay, Salmon, and Wratislaw were promoted to the rank of commanders; Dr Flanagan, assistant surgeon, was promoted to the rank of surgeon; Mr Verney, mate, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant; Mr Comerford, assistant paymaster, was promoted to the rank of paymaster; and each of the engineers and warrant-officers received a step.
"And meantime there is that thousand-mile piece of desert of which we know nothing, and where our friends may be playing pranks as they please. Well, well, we must wait on developments. It is the last refuge of the ill-informed. What about the dissolution? You are safe, I suppose?" Wratislaw nodded. "I have been asked my forecast fifty times to-day, and I steadily refuse to speak.
Now the good Gribton is coming home, and so he will have the place for a happy hunting-ground." Wratislaw was puffing his under-lip in deep thought. "It is a sweet business," he said. "But what can we do? Only wait?" "Yes, one could wait if Marka were the only disquieting feature. But what about Taghati and the Russian activity?
Do you know what I am, Tommy?" "I am prepared to hear," said the other. "A coward! It sounds nice, doesn't it? I am a shirker, a man who would be drummed out of any regiment." "Rot!" said Wratislaw. "In that sort of thing you have the courage of your kind. You are the wrong sort of breed for common shirking cowards.
I feel a terrible pity, but all the same I cannot touch them. And then I become a coward and dare not face them and talk straight as man to man. I repeat my platitudes to the ceiling, and they go away thinking, and thinking rightly, that I am a fool." Wratislaw looked worried. "That is one of my complaints. The other is that on certain occasions you cannot hold yourself in check.
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