Simpkins?"
"He is; and I wouldn't like any harm would come to him."
"You act as I have told you, and no harm will come to him. But if the
judge stays on here it's impossible to say what may happen. You know
what judges are, Sabina."
"I've heard tell of them, and it's mighty little good is ever said of
them or their like."
"Quite so," said Meldon. "So you do your best to get this one out of
Ballymoy."
CHAPTER XV.
Meldon, although he still kept Doyle's bicycle, did not arrive at
Portsmouth Lodge until after eight o'clock. Major Kent had waited
dinner for him, and was therefore, as even the best men are under such
circumstances, in a very bad temper. When Meldon walked into the study
he was sitting with _The Times_ spread out on his knee.
"I have had," said Meldon, "a long and particularly exhausting kind of
day. I didn't get much lunch with the judge at Donard, and although I
had a cup of tea with Sabina Gallagher at the hotel, I had so much to
say to her that I didn't eat much. I hope dinner's ready."
"Dinner," growled the Major, "has been ready for more than an hour."
"Good," said Meldon. "I'm certainly ready for it.
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