Furthermore, he travels
with a talking raven, and I'll swear he won't leave it behind. On the
other hand, he is endowed with an amount of craft which comes very
near to genius."
"And--Mrs. Monte Irvin?"
Quentin Gray turned suddenly, and his boyish face was very pale.
"Seton, Seton!" he said. "For God's sake tell me the truth! Do you
think--"
He stopped, choking emotionally. Seton Pasha watched him with that
cool, confident stare which could either soothe or irritate; and:
"She was alive this morning, Gray," he replied quietly, "we heard her.
You may take it from me that they will offer her no violence. I shall
say no more."
Lord Wrexborough cleared his throat and took up a document from the
table.
"Your remark raises another point, Quentin," he said sternly, "which
has to be settled today. Your appointment to Cairo was confirmed this
morning. You sail on Tuesday."
Quentin Gray turned again abruptly and stared out of the window.
"You're practically kicking me out, sir," he said. "I don't know what
I've done."
"You have done nothing," replied Lord Wrexborough "which an honorable
man may not do. But in common with many others similarly
circumstanced, you seem inclined, now that your military duties are at
an end, to regard life as a sort of perpetual 'leave.
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