But
that evening after they had dined her fears and anxieties drove her
at last to seek her natural and legal protector.
Sir Terence had sauntered off towards the house, gloomy and silent
as he had been throughout the meal. She ran after him now, and came
tripping lightly at his side up the steps. She put her arm through
his.
"Terence dear, you are not going back to work again?" she pleaded.
He stopped, and from his fine height looked down upon her with a
curious smile. Slowly he disengaged his arm from the clasp of her
own. "I am afraid I must," he answered coldly. "I have a great
deal to do, and I am short of a secretary. When this inquiry is
over I shall have more time to myself, perhaps." There was something
so repellent in his voice, in his manner of uttering those last words,
that she stood rebuffed and watched him vanish into the building.
Then she stamped her foot and her pretty mouth trembled.
"Oaf!" she said aloud.
CHAPTER XVI
THE EVIDENCE
The board of officers convened by Marshal Beresford to form the
court that was to try Captain Tremayne, was presided over by
General Sir Harry Stapleton, who was in command of the British
troops quartered in Lisbon.
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