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He responded to their summons. And it was in response to a very urgent summons from Fairbairn that he had hurried the completion of certain arrangements with the French authorities in Paris and was now returning to the south! But he was going very reluctantly. It was July, 1916. The first battle of the Somme, launched some days past, was at its very climacteric.
"From where he sat he could not see into the room, but he noticed that the electric light had not been switched on, and that the manager seemingly had no light but an occasional match. "'For the minute, continued James Fairbairn, 'a thought did just cross my mind that something might perhaps be wrong, and I put my newspaper aside and went to the other end of the room towards the glass partition.
The satisfactory execution of this important work at once placed the firm of Fairbairn and Lillie in the very front rank of engineering millwrights. Mr. Kennedy's good word was of itself a passport to fame and business, and as he was more than satisfied with the manner in which his mill machinery had been planned and executed, he sounded their praises in all quarters.
"Because," replied Fairbairn, taking Riddell's arm and walking slowly off "because we can do better without you." Gilks stared at him a moment as though he meditated flying at him. If he did, he thought better of it, and turned away, muttering to himself that he would pay them all out, let them see if he did not.
"I shall want the tub-pair after third school," said he to the boatman. "Riddell, will you come and cox. Crossfield and me?" "Who Crossfield?" asked Coates. "Yes; I shall try him for bow." "You mean to say," exclaimed Gilks, taking the matter in, "you're going to turn me out of the boat?" "Certainly," said Fairbairn, coolly. "What for?" demanded Gilks, threateningly.
"I suppose, dear, you could hardly fail to notice how matters were going. This calling at once, and his bringing the children too; and his wish to find out my opinions, and tell me his own on various subjects." Silence on the part of the hostess. "I could almost have wished, dear Emily, that you had not " She paused. "Had not what?" asked Emily. Miss Fairbairn remembered that she was Mrs.
"None of your buts, old man," said Fairbairn. "I say, if we only were to win, with you as cox, what a score it would be!" "None of your `ifs, old man," said Riddell, laughing. "But I'll come to-morrow, if you are determined to have your way." "Of course I am," said Fairbairn.
"I never saw such a rum fellow as Riddell," said Coates, as the three strolled over. "Did you see how cut up he got when something was said about the boat-race?" "He's a little cracked on that subject," said Fairbairn. "I do believe, until the culprit is found out, he considers himself responsible for the whole affair."
But Fairbairn was loth to give up his idea; so he went to Mr Parrett, and asked him if he would mind running with the schoolhouse pair-oar during the next morning's spin, and watching the steering of the new captain. Mr Parrett did so; and was not a little pleased with the performance, but advised Fairbairn to try him in the four-oar before deciding.
She was a good woman; she would have ruled his house well; she would have been just to his children; and if he had established her in all comfort and elegance over his family, he might have left her, and attended to those prospective Parliamentary duties as long as he liked, without annoying her. She was a lady too, and her mother, old Lady Fairbairn, was a pleasant and unexceptionable woman.
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