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"In my position," said Hilliard at length, "what would you have done?" "It's a difficult thing to put myself in your position." "Is it, really? Why, then, I will tell you something more of myself. You say that Mrs. Brewer gave me an excellent character?" "I certainly shouldn't have known you from her description." Hilliard laughed. "I seem to you so disreputable?"
"Come on, Hilliard, and hear what he has to say." It was the mineowner speaking from his office. "I've just rung up our friends," he told them, "and that business is all right. There was some delay about it at first, for Benson that's the manager was afraid he hadn't enough stock of props for current orders.
There was nothing anywhere about it to excite suspicion, and it kept Archer in touch with the illicit undertaking, while enabling him to hold himself absolutely aloof from all its members. If the rest of the organization was as good, it was not surprising that Hilliard, and Merriman had been baffled. But the puzzle was now solved, the mystery at an end.
Almost incessantly the thin screech of the saws rose penetratingly above the sounds of hacking and chopping and the calls of men. "There doesn't seem to be much wrong here," Merriman said when they had surveyed the scene for nearly an hour. "No," Hilliard agreed, "and there didn't seem to be much wrong when I inspected the place on Sunday. But there can't be anything obviously wrong.
"It is because, for the purpose of the war in this country, they know infinitely more than the officers of our army. They talk the languages, they know the men. These blacks will follow them anywhere, to the death. As for Mr. Hilliard, he has performed feats that any officer in the army, whatever his rank, would be proud to have done.
No doubt they could have tea on board.... He mustn't forget to buy some decent cakes in Bordeaux.... Perhaps she would help him to get it ready while Hilliard steered and pottered over his old engines.... He could just imagine her bending over a tea tray, her graceful figure, the little brown tendrils of her hair at the edge of her tam-o'-shanter, her brown eyes flashing up to meet his own....
"Let us hear your Latin, which should be purer than Philip's." My grandfather glanced uneasily at me across the table; he saw clearly the trick Grafton had played me, I think. But for once I was equal to my uncle, and haply remembered a line Dr. Hilliard had expounded, which fitted the present case marvellously well.
Stacks of pit-props stood ready for loading between the lines. "Seems a sound arrangement," Hilliard commented as they made their inspection. "Quite. Anything I noticed before struck me as being efficient." When they had seen all that the wharf appeared to offer, they walked round the end of the shed.
The men gazed at each other, Dengate superbly triumphant, Hilliard incredulous but betraying excitement. "I'm going to pay you four hundred and thirty-six pounds," Dengate repeated. "No less and no more. It isn't a legal debt, so I shall pay no interest. But go with me when we get to Birmingham, and you shall have my cheque for four hundred and thirty-six pounds." The train began to move on.
"She would like to speak to you at the door, Sir, if you wouldn't mind going out." He hastened thither. The front door stood open, and a light from the passage shone on Patty's face. In the girl's look he saw at once that something was wrong. "Oh, Mr. Hilliard I didn't know your number I've been to a lot of houses asking for you " "What is it?" he inquired, going out on to the doorstep.
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