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It was a night as wild as that on which Durrance had left England; and, like Durrance, Feversham had a friend to see him off, for the last thing which his eyes beheld as the packet swung away from the pier, was the face of Lieutenant Sutch beneath a gas-lamp.
Women make a god of it. That girl, for instance," and again Harry Feversham interrupted. "You must not blame her. I was defrauding her into marriage." Sutch took his hand suddenly from his forehead. "Suppose that you had never met her, would you still have sent in your papers?" "I think not," said Harry, slowly. "I want to be fair.
Thereupon Feversham told him the whole truth, without exaggeration or omission, forcing himself to a slow, careful, matter-of-fact speech, so that in the end Sutch almost fell into the illusion that it was just the story of a stranger which Feversham was recounting merely to pass the time. He began with the Crimean night at Broad Place, and ended with the ball at Lennon House.
They were Durrance and his servant, and they came out at once on to the road. Lieutenant Sutch hailed Durrance, who walked to the side of the trap. "You received my telegram in time, then?" said Durrance. "Luckily it found me at home." "I have brought a bag. May I trespass upon you for a night's lodging?"
Lieutenant Sutch limped across the hall, where the portraits of the Fevershams rose one above the other to the ceiling, and went out on to the stone-flagged terrace at the back. There he found his host sitting erect like a boy, and gazing southward toward the Sussex Downs. "How's the leg?" asked General Feversham, as he rose briskly from his chair.
It had been his perpetual menacing companion. It had kept him from intimacy with his friends lest an impulsive word should betray him. Lieutenant Sutch did not wonder that in the end it had brought about this irretrievable mistake; for Lieutenant Sutch understood. "Did you ever read 'Hamlet'?" he asked. "Of course," said Harry, in reply. "Ah, but did you consider it?
You said that if one was in trouble, the telling might help." Sutch stopped his companion. "We will go in here. We can find a quiet corner in the upper smoking-room;" and Harry, looking up, saw that he was standing by the steps of the Army and Navy Club. "Good God, not there!" he cried in a sharp low voice, and moved quickly into the roadway, where no light fell directly on his face.
It is possible that only Lieutenant Sutch and Harry Feversham himself would have understood. "I was sad and sorry enough when I had done it," she resumed. "Indeed, indeed, I think I have always been sorry since. I think that I have never at any minute during these five years quite forgotten that fourth white feather and the quiet air of dignity with which he took it. But to-day I am glad."
He had indeed mapped out already the plan of action concerning which Lieutenant Sutch was so disturbed. Sutch, however, was occupied with his own thoughts. "Who knows of the feathers? How many people?" he asked. "Give me their names." "Trench, Castleton, Willoughby," began Feversham. "All three are in Egypt.
"But it is not necessary that the three men should be themselves in peril," objected Sutch, "for you to convince them that the fault is retrieved." "Oh, no. There may be other ways," agreed Feversham. "The plan came suddenly into my mind, indeed at the moment when Ethne bade me take up the feathers, and added the fourth.
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