I suppose, now, if anything of the sort
occurred you'd be sure to have seen it."
"Don't I tell you there wasn't," said Callaghan; "nor there couldn't
have been, for Simpkins wasn't near the place since the afternoon you
was in it yourself."
"What! Do you mean to say--?"
"He was in it the once," said Callaghan, "not long after you leaving,
and barring that she gave him a cup of tea there was nothing passed
between them, and I wouldn't say he was there half an hour."
"Do you hear that, Major? That silly ass Simpkins has actually flung
away a priceless opportunity. He hasn't been near her."
"I'm glad to hear it," said Major Kent. "Perhaps now you'll stop your
foolish games."
"Could she have gone out to meet him anywhere?" said Meldon to
Callaghan.
"She could not. It wouldn't be possible for her to do the like
unbeknown to me, for I had my eye on her."
"All day?"
"After what your reverence was saying to me I'd have been afraid to let
her out of my sight."
"Very well, Callaghan, you can go home. I shall have to think the
matter over. I don't deny that I'm disappointed. I thought when I saw
you standing there on the shore that you'd have had some definite news
for me.
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