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It is given to only a few to be sure of a warm and sincere welcome when they take their friends by surprise. Nasmyth frowned at Crestwick, who had rashly hinted at the feeling of constraint that had seized upon the party. Millicent, however, was looking at Gladwyne and her heart grew softer as she noticed his weariness and his strained expression.
One of the men immediately went in search of him, and the lady crossed the hall to where Millicent Gladwyne was sitting, for the time being alone. Millicent had noticed Bella's sudden change of demeanor upon her hostess's entrance, with something between amusement and faint disgust. Mrs.
Behind the trees rough, lichened rock and stony slopes ran up to a bare ridge, silhouetted against the roseate glow of the morning sky. The sun had not risen, the water lay in shadow; it was very quiet and rather cold, and Lisle was surprised to see Millicent Gladwyne picking her way cautiously over a bank of stones.
Marple's laugh you heard." His voice had been most in evidence it usually carried far but Lisle was half amused at the disapproval in the girl's tone. "I'm afraid I'm now and then a little boisterous, too," he ventured. "It depends a good deal upon what you laugh at," Millicent informed him. Mrs. Gladwyne looked up again, as if she had not heard, and the girl smiled at her.
"Has it ever struck you that you might have less difficulty if you could be content with proving half of what you claim?" he asked. "It's the more important part I mean that your late comrade failed to find the cache." "Half a truth is not much use Gladwyne realized that. To declare you haven't done the wrong is a good deal less effective than pointing to the guilty man."
"I don't expect anything from you," Lisle informed him. "In proof of it, I'll mention that I called to tell Gladwyne he must keep you off of Jim Crestwick." He made a slip in the last few words, which the other quickly noticed. "Ordered him, in fact," he said. Lisle made no answer and Batley resumed: "You have some kind of a hold on Gladwyne; so have I. Of course, it's no news to you.
"You have just called on Gladwyne," Batley began. Lisle stopped. There was, so far as he knew, nothing to be said in favor of the man, but his cool boldness was tempered by a certain geniality and an occasional candor that the Canadian could not help appreciating. He preferred Batley to Gladwyne. "That's so," he agreed. "I'm inclined to think your visit concerned me.
"Why didn't you take him then?" Millicent asked coldly. "Remember you have justified my being personal." Bella grew rather hot when Carew had made his first offer she had been in eager pursuit of Gladwyne but she sternly suppressed a desire to retaliate. "I don't think we need go into that," she replied.
"Quite right," agreed Batley, walking up and casting a swift and searching glance at Gladwyne. "But you can't let him lie on the wet grass!" Millicent expostulated. "I'm afraid we must; it's safest," said Batley. "The shock's not so much to be dreaded with a man of his kind."
"I'm sorry for you, Gladwyne you don't seem to realize that a man can't very well play two widely different parts at once," Batley rejoined, smiling. "Your interfering Canadian friend would describe your attitude as sitting upon the fence. It's an uncomfortable position, one that's not often tenable for any length of time. Hadn't you better make up your mind as to which side you'll get down on?"
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