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"There wasn't no one there, any more than in the other attics, nothing but an old packing-case." "And what?" said Deede Dawson, his voice so soft it was like a caress, his smile so sweet it was a veritable benediction. "What was in that packing-case?" "Didn't look," answered Dunn, and then, with a sudden change of manner, as though all at once understanding what previously had puzzled him.
For a second time he had been humiliated, and humiliation was an experience to which Mr. Rae was not accustomed. It was in a distinctly wrathful frame of mind that he called upon Mr. Dunn, and the first quarter of an hour of his interview he spent in dilating upon his own folly in having allowed Captain Cameron to accompany him on his visit to Sir Archibald.
The shock of the change in eyes and voice brought Martin quite to himself. "Wrong? Not a bit," he hastened to say, "but just the finest thing in the world. It is all here in this letter. Dunn could not come himself, and there was no one else, and he thought Cameron ought to have it to-day, so here I am, and here is the letter. Where is he?"
"Did you hear about Ramsay Dunn? Oh, he did splendidly. He was wounded; got a cross or something." "Did you know that Mr. Murray had organised a battalion and is Lieutenant-Colonel and that Doctor Brown is organising a Field Ambulance unit and going out in command?" "Oh, that is settled, is it? Jane told me it was possible." "Yes, and perhaps Jane and Ethel Murray will go with the Ambulance Unit.
"You told me once you knew this part fairly well. Do you know Wreste Abbey?" Dunn gave his questioner a scowling look that seemed full of anger and suspicion. "What about it if I do?" he asked. "I am asking if you do know it," said Deede Dawson. "Yes, I do. Well?" "It belongs to Lord Chobham, doesn't it?" Dunn nodded. "Old man, isn't he?"
"And the opening is on the other side, opposite the dead brush," said Dunn. "Then you know it?" said Brace suspiciously. "I reckon!" responded Dunn, grimly. "That's enough! Fall back!" To the surprise of his companion, he lifted his head erect, and with a strong, firm step walked directly to the tree. Reaching it, he planted himself squarely before the opening. "Halloo!" he said.
Sumner and Dunn volunteer to take the little boat and make the attempt. They start, reach it, and out come the barometers! The boys set up a shout, and I join them, pleased that they should be as glad as myself to save the instruments. When the boat lands on our side, I find that the only things saved from the wreck were the barometers, a package of thermometers, and a three-gallon keg of whiskey.
It was given out, like this, that she went to the Burnhams'. I don't mind saying, Dunn, that I went down myself, all on the square, thinking I might get a show to talk to her, just as you might have done, you know, if you had my chance. I didn't come across her anywhere. But two men that I met thought they recognized her in a disguise going into the woods.
They were waiting for the International players, and were bent on carrying their great captain down the street, shoulder high; for the enthusiasm of the Scot reaches the point of madness only in the hour of glorious defeat. But before they were aware, Dunn had shouldered his mighty form through the opposing crowds and had got safely into the carriage beside his father and his young brother.
One day Rascal, his pony, pulled up the lariat pin which held him out upon the prairie and scampered for home, and Billy and Davie Dunn, his chum, were forced to "hoof it," as the western slang goes, home.
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