'Trespassing!' echoed the colonel; 'I could have had the law of him for trespassing nearly a year ago.'
'You mean that time you caught him fishing in the Dome? I only heard of that at second-hand, but I have at least no doubt that he fished to some effect.'
'He can fish,' admitted the colonel; 'I should like to know what flies he used.'
Dick laughed.
'Angus,' he said, 'is a man with a natural aptitude for things. He does not, I suspect, even make love like a beginner.'
'You are on his side, Richard.'
'It has not seemed like it so far, but, I confess, I have certainly had enough of shuffling.'
'There will be no more shuffling,' said the colonel fiercely. 'I shall see this man and tell him what I think of him. As for Mary——'
He paused.
'Yes,' said Dick, 'Mary is the difficulty. At present I cannot even tell you what she is thinking of it all. Mary is the one person I could never look in the face when I meditated an underhand action—I remember how that sense of honour of hers used to annoy me when I was a boy—and so I have not studied her countenance much of late.'