They are angry and disturbed and have
ambushed the roads to Trelawney, so I'm told."
"Did Mr. Calhoun tell you that when he was here?"
"It was not that which Mr. Calhoun told me the only time he came here.
But who Erris Boyne was. I never knew till, in his honour, he told me,
coming here for that purpose. I never knew who my father was till he
told me. My mother had kept it from me all my life."
The governor looked alert. "And you have not seen him since that day?"
"I have seen him, but I have not spoken to him. It was in the distance
only."
"I understand your manager, Mr. Boland, sees him."
"My manager does not share my private interests--or troubles. He is free
to go where he will, to speak to whom he chooses. He visits Enniskillen,
I suppose--it is a well-managed plantation on Jamaican lines, and its
owner is a man of mark."
Sheila spoke without agitation of any kind; her face was firm and calm,
her manner composed, her voice even. As she talked, she seemed to be
probing the centre of a flower which she had caught from a basket at the
window, and her whole personality was alight and vivifying, her good
temper and spirit complete.
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