He rushed around the rear wheels of the limousine and for the first time spied the gate in the hedge.
“Tricked, by God! In after her, some of you.”
“It won’t do a bit of good,” remarked Cyril. He was sitting in the dirt of the middle of the road near the front wheels of the machines. “She doesn’t smoke, o’ chap. Bad taste, I call it, gettin’ a lady mixed up in a hunt for cigarettes. Besides she’s almost home by this. The house isn’t far. She lives there, you know.”
In her tree Doris trembled. She was well screened by the branches and she heard the crackle of footsteps in the dry leaves as the searchers beat the bushes below her, but they passed on, following the path toward the house. As the sounds diminished in the distance she saw Cyril still seated on the ground leaning against the front wheels of the touring-car while he argued and cajoled the men nearest him. Helping himself by a wheel as he arose he faced the tall man who had come up waving his revolver and uttering wild threats.
“It won’t help matters calling me a lot of names,” said Cyril, brushing the dust from his clothes. “You[47] want something I haven’t got—that’s flat. I hope you’re satisfied.”
“Not yet. They’ll bring the girl in a minute. She can’t have gone far.”
Cyril glanced around him carelessly and brushed his clothes again.
He had discovered that Stryker had put on the spare wheel and was parleying with one of their captors.
“Oh, very well. Have your way. What more can I do for you? If you don’t mind I’d like to be going on.”
“You’ll wait for the girl—here.&rd
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Set during WW1 when all the young men are insisting to go off to the trenches, Doris Matter and her friends can't help but wonder why The Honerable Cyril hasn't joined. Worse, he seems bored with the topic when its brought up and shows no sign of doing anything for the war eff