At last they were roused by
the sound of a horn, and, looking down, they saw a four-in-hand drawing
smartly down the road to the village over the gorse-spread common, till
it stopped at the Cloistered House. As Faith looked, her face slightly
flushed. She bent forward till she saw one figure get down and, waving a
hand to the party on the coach as it moved on, disappear into the gateway
of the Cloistered House.
"What is the office they have given him?" asked Soolsby, disapproval in
his tone, his eyes fixed on the disappearing figure.
"They have made Lord Eglington Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs," she
answered.
"And what means that to a common mind?"
"That what his Government does in Egypt will mean good or bad to our
Egyptian," she returned.
"That he can do our man good or ill?" Soolsby asked sharply--"that he,
yonder, can do that?"
She inclined her head.
"When I see him doing ill--well, when I see him doing that"--he snatched
up a piece of wood from the floor--"then I will break him, so!"
He snapped the stick across his knee, and threw the pieces on the ground.
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