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While Val and his father and sister were saying their farewells in few words, but with homely demonstrations, Sergeant Tom brought his horse round and mounted it. Inspector Jules gave the word to move on. As they started, Gellatly, who fell behind the others slightly, leaned down and whispered: "Forgive me, Jen. You did a noble act for me, and the life of me would prove to you that I'm grateful.
Waugh, who had sometime seen Sergeant Gellatly, entered into a disputation on the point.
That conviction, at least, he need not surrender. "I suppose," ventured Mrs. Gellatly, "that's how he convinces Lady May that he's always right." Dick looked at her with a touch of covert contempt; clever people could convince the intellect, but there were instincts of honour, of loyalty, and of fidelity which no arguments should be able to blunt or to turn.
Waugh, who had sometime seen Sergeant Gellatly, entered into a disputation on the point.
The sun above was smothered; the earth beneath was trackless; the compass stood for loss all round. What could Sergeant Gellatly expect, riding with a murderer on his left hand: a heathen that had sent a knife through the heart of one of the lords of the North? What should the gods do but frown, or the elements be at, but howling on their path?
Private Waugh declared then that Corporal Galna would be saying Sergeant Gellatly wasn't a man at all, and wore earrings, and put his hair into papers; and when he could find no further enlargement of sarcasm, consigned the Corporal to a fiery place of future torment reserved for lunatics. At this critical juncture Waugh was ordered to proceed to Inspector Jules.
When Dick left her, it was to go home to his wife and tell her, and Mrs. Gellatly whom he found with her, that he did not understand what had come over May Gaston May Quisanté, he corrected himself. Not understanding, he proved naturally quite unable to explain. Lady Richard was more equal to the occasion. "That man's simply got hold of her," she said. "She'll think black's white if he says it is.
Gellatly looked almost frightened. Next her eyes scanned Quisanté's face; he was not weaselly now, nor ostentatious.
Next to her, on the other side, was Mrs. Gellatly, who nodded and smiled effusively at May. "Who's the funny old woman?" May asked. Lady Richard looked round and made a constrained bow; the old lady smiled a little and sniffed the bottle again. "Oh, she's an aunt of the man's; come to hear him, I suppose. Oh, Dick's getting up."
The Sergeant had caught him wild and independent, had brought him in, broken him, and taught him obedience. They understood each other; perhaps they loved each other. But about that even Private Gellatly had views in common with the general sentiment as to the character of Sergeant Fones.
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