So there he was. The meeting
between the two was affectionate but peculiar.
"Hullo, dad!" said Stephen. "Whoever would have thought of seeing you
here?"
"Hullo, Stephen," said his father. "Whoever would have expected to
find you alive and looking well--yes, very well? It is more than you
deserve, you young ass, and I hope you won't do it again."
Having delivered himself thus, the old boy seized Stephen by the hair
and solemnly kissed him on the brow.
"No, dad," answered his son, "I don't mean to do it again, but thanks
to Allan there we've come through all right. And, by the way, let me
introduce you to the lady I am going to marry, also to her father and
mother."
Well, all the rest may be imagined. They were married a fortnight
later in Durban and a very pleasant affair it was, since Sir
Alexander, who by the way, treated me most handsomely from a business
point of view, literally entertained the whole town on that festive
occasion. Immediately afterwards Stephen, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Eversley and his father, took his wife home "to be educated," though
what that process consisted of I never heard.
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