"I am only too glad to have been able to do anything which has pleased you." At the same moment he felt a pang of remorse for the deception.
He had not long to think of it when he heard Mrs. MacAllister saying to Commander Gardenier:
"What a barbarous jargon to be called a language!"
"Yes," replied the officer drily, "but I have heard a good many others more barbarous."
Then Thomson, the missionary, remarked in his slow way:
"It—some—way—seems—to—me—that—I—have —heard—some—thing—like—that—before."
Sinclair had to act quickly:
"You were a missionary once among the Indians of Bruce Peninsula, were you not?"
"Yes—I—was."
"You probably heard it there."