Part 2 (2/2)
”How your father can have been so unjust I cannot irace to re after his chat with Dr Hanly ”You and Frank are equally his sons, and should have been treated alike But it was always the same You were to have first place, and Frank was to have as left It is abominable, and if it were not that your father was always unjust in dealing with Frank, I really should begin to think that he was out of his senses when he made that will”
Jack listened to his nantly protesting; but better counsel prevailed, and he kept silent
Teeks later he and Dr Hanly took theMrs So in a lordly uised air of triumph about him which seemed to say that now at least he would be head and ruler of the establishment
Jack had only once before been to London, and when the four-wheeler in which he and his friend were driving to their hotel becaes at the Mansion House he was perfectly astounded Nor was his astonishment lessened when he noticed how the bushed as they drove their vehicles through the narrowest parts with an accuracy which onderful; while tall, powerful-looking policemen stood in the thick of it all, and with a wave of a hand arrested the flow in one direction, while a flood of oes swept by in the other
”Fine fellows, aren't they!” exclaimed Dr Hanly ”And many of them are old soldiers too I really do not think there is another force in the world that equals the, especially to country-cousins like ourselves, and with a pohich is sih I have known of many attempts to copy In Paris, for instance, the policeman's efforts to control the traffic, andcomparatively safe, are simply ludicrous”
Ten e was carried in
”Now, Jack, you can do as you like for the next hour,” cried the doctor
”I have letters to write, and so will go to o as far as you can in the tih the Strand and on past Charing Cross and West”
Jack had never gone alone through the streets of London before, but he was quite old enough to take care of hi selected a bus, with the words ”Strand, Charing Cross, and Victoria” painted on the side, he boarded it while it was running at a respectable pace, just as every boy likes to do, and seated hiarden-seat on top, just behind the driver
”Afternoon, sir!” the latter, a jolly, red-faced individual, exclaimed
”Good afternoon!” Jack replied ”I'm up in town for the second time in my life, and if you can tell s we pass, I shall be entleman frorinning with pleasure, for, seated forthe day on his box, an occasional chat came as a treat, which relieved the 's the Law Courts, and a fine place it is too; and under that funny-looking arch on t'other side is the Tes and their church”
As they drove through the Strand the driver showed him the various theatres, and finally pointed to the National Gallery across Trafalgar Square
”That's where all the best pictures go to, sir,” he said, ”and if yer was to pass along on the right of it you'd see the sodger-sergeants a-walking up and down a-looking for recruits And a fine bag they are er and the Transvaal Boers there's likely to be trouble co, and that's what draws recruits When there's a chance of active service the young chaps comes up in scores
Funny, ain't it, when yer think of other countries where pretty well every man has to join the arland, it's left to choice, and no one need belong who doesn't like!
”Do yer knoho it is who's perched up yonder a-looking doards West to the Nelson Monument
”Yes, that's Nelson, of course,” answered Jack ”I've been here once before, I re”
”Nelson it is, right enough, sir, but he ain't the only chap as perches himself up there There's a lot of chaps stands on the stonework below at ti of the sort they calls 'eues in their lishathers when there's a row abroad, so as to let everybody knohat they thinks about the ar Square's a useful sort of place, if it ain't so very nice to look at”
The omnibus now turned down Parliament Street, swept past Whitehall and the Horse Guards, and finally drew up at Westood-bye” to the genial driver, Jack jue, where he stopped for a quarter of an hour or , and at the panting tugs and the lazy barges floating on the river Then he walked along the Embankment, back into the Strand, and so returned to his hotel
”Well, Jack, to-ood run round the place,”
exclaimed the doctor as they finished their dinner, ”and after that we must find rooards the rooood plan for you to board with sos by himself, as I remember well, for I spent four years of that kind of life when I was a student To-night, if you are not too tired, ill go to some place of aly they went to Drury Lane, and thoroughly enjoyed the piece and the wonders ofday they went to various other places, and in the evening looked up an old friend of the doctor's, a barrister, who lived near Victoria Station
”Look here, Jackson,” said Dr Hanly as soon as he had introduced his young friend, ”I ao to a crammer's and work up for the army The next examination takes place in about six et him into some comfortable place where he will not be too much alone”