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"Oh, come, old chap, I bet he didn't," observed Captain Heseltine. "We've seen him, you know." Duncombe laughed good-humouredly. "At any rate he made Kilshaw look a little green, and some of the people behind called out 'Shame! and got themselves sat upon.
"And at present no one knows it but you?" If Benham had answered truly he would have been wise, but his vaunting mind persuaded him not to diminish his importance by confessing that he shared his secret with any one. After all, it was all his secret, though Kilshaw had bought it. "Not a soul alive!" he answered, rising to go. "Ah, then yours is a life valuable to your party.
He referred to the unhappy phrase. The storm which had greeted its first appearance broke out again. There were cries of "Withdraw!" Mr. Kilshaw called out, "Do you adopt that? Yes or no;" Norburn's followers cheered; redoubled groans answered them; Eleanor made notes, and Alicia's eyes were fixed on Medland, who stood silent and smiling. Kilshaw cried again, "Do you adopt it?"
They knew what they meant just as well as though they had been indecent enough to say it. "Help us to turn out Medland, and you shall be Chief Justice," said Kilshaw, in the name of Sir Robert Perry, "Chief Justice, and once more a persona grata at Government House." Chief Justice! Soon, perhaps, Sir Alfred! Would not that soften the Eynesford heart? Mr. Coxon honestly thought it would.
Perry, we shall beat him by anything from six to ten! I shan't die a pauper yet!" Sir John bustled on, anxious to anticipate in other quarters the coming newsvendor, and Sir Robert turned to his lieutenant. "I suppose he must have his price," he remarked, with deep regret evident in his tone. "I can't look him in the face if he doesn't," answered Kilshaw. "By Jove, Perry, he's earned it."
You know well enough. It's impossible to live here without noticing that everybody thinks there's something wrong. I believe Kilshaw knows what it is, and, what's more, that he means to have it out some day. However that may be, rumours of the sort there are about are by themselves enough to stop any wise man." "Old wives' scandal, I expect." "Perhaps: perhaps not.
And he added, as if addressing an imaginary waiter, "Thank you, I'm not taking it to-day." His words fell on attentive ears, and the next time Kilshaw had a chance of conversing with Coxon at the Club, he did not forget what he had learnt from Captain Heseltine. "How d'you do, Coxon?" said he. "Haven't seen you for a long time. Come and sit here.
"That's the man, Sir John," answered Kilshaw; and Sir Robert added, "You gave him three months for inciting to riot in the strike at the Collieries two years ago. He's made Minister of Public Works; I hear the Governor held out for a long while, but Medland insisted."
Kilshaw, impelled less by mere self-interest than by the rankling of a personal feud, had dipped the end of his fingers in pitch.
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