"
"If they carry the case against Lorne," said Stella,
"he'll be disqualified for seven years."
"Only if they prove him personally mixed up in it," said
the father. "And that," he added with a concentration of
family sentiment in the emphasis of it, "they'll not do."
CHAPTER XXXII
It was late afternoon when the train from the West
deposited Hugh Finlay upon the Elgin platform, the close
of one of those wide, wet, uncertain February days when
the call of spring is on the wind though spring is weeks
away. The lights of the town flashed and glimmered down
the streets under the bare swaying maple branches. The
early evening was full of soft bluster; the air was
conscious with an appeal of nature, vague yet poignant.
The young man caught at the strange sympathy that seemed
to be abroad for his spirit. He walked to his house,
courting it, troubled by it. They were expecting him that
evening at Dr Drummond's, and there it was his intention
to go. But on his way he would call for a moment to see
Advena Murchison. He had something to tell her. It would
be news of interest at Dr Drummond's also; but it was of
no consequence, within an hour or so, when they should
receive it there, while it was of great consequence that
Advena should hear it at the earliest opportunity, and
from him.
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