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I'll send some of my men with you, Mr. Kilshaw, if you please, sir." Kilshaw made a wry face. "I wish I had my men," he said. "The Mounted Volunteers would teach these fellows a lesson." "Well, we may see that before we're many days older, sir," answered the officer. "Mr. Medland'll be here to-morrow, and heaven knows what they'll be up to then." Alicia Derosne had a fantastic dream that night.
Young Heseltine offered just now to lay me six to five you'd be out in a month." "Confound him! Who is he?" "One of the Governor's young fellows." "Oh, yes, I remember." "Talking of that, I had some very kind inquiries about you at Government House to-day." "Ah!" "From Miss Derosne. She's a warm admirer of yours, and really a most charming girl. Well, good-night.
Dick Derosne perhaps was not unaware that many people in Kirton frowned on him as an unprincipled deceiver, or, at best, a fickle light-o'-love; he would have been much more surprised, and also more displeased, to know that there was even one who thought of him as a deluded innocent, and had determined to rescue him from the snares which were set for his destruction.
Medland, with one hand on his daughter's shoulder and the other holding his hat, walked down the lane between human walls, and was lost to sight as the walls found motion and closed in behind him. After some moments' silence Dick Derosne recovered himself, and remarked with a cynical air, "Neat bit of acting kissing the girl and all that." But Alicia would not have it.
A long period of intimacy and favour excluded from his mind the suspicion that he might have to fight for his position with Daisy Medland; and, if he could have brought himself to entertain the thought of a successful rival of some one who, coming suddenly between, should break the strong bonds of affection well tried by time he certainly would not have expected to find such a competitor in Dick Derosne.
It struck him that a pitfall or two lay in Sir Robert's path, and he saw his way to giving Kilshaw a bad quarter of an hour over one of his election speeches. The only thing that he could not get away from was the thought of Alicia Derosne.
Kilshaw, soon after he had, by his bargain with Benham, been put in possession of the facts that gentleman had to dispose of. Kilshaw knew Dick Derosne very well, and for a time he remained quiet, expecting to see Dick's zeal slacken and his infatuation cease of their own accord.
"I've the greatest respect for Mr. Medland as my leader, but come, Miss Derosne, he's hardly now is he?" "I like him very much indeed," declared Alicia. "I think he's the most interesting man I've ever met." "But thinking a man interesting and thinking him a man one would like to marry are quite different, surely?" suggested fastidious Mr. Coxon.
One evening about half-past nine, she was sitting alone, wishing her father or her lover would come back to her, when there was a knock at the door. Alicia Derosne came in, with a hasty, almost furtive, step. "You are alone, aren't you? I saw Mr. Medland was away." "Yes, I am alone," said Daisy, doubtful whether to put on her armour or not.
Lady Eynesford admired Sir Robert because there was no smack of the young community about him; Miss Scaife conceded that point of view, but maintained that there was another: and from that other she ranked Mr. Medland above a thousand Sir Roberts. All this she explained to Alicia Derosne, after Lady Eynesford had retired in dudgeon, and while the Governor was closeted with the new Premier.
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