At that moment Mr. Galloway entered: the subject was continued. Mr.
Yorke and Mr. Galloway were eloquent on it, telling Mr. Channing that
he _must_ go to Germany, as a point of duty. The Channings themselves
were silent; they could not see the way at all clear. When Mr. Yorke
was leaving, he beckoned Constance and Arthur into the hall.

"Mr. Channing must go," he whispered to them. "Think of all that is at
stake! Renewed health, exertion, happiness! Arthur, you did not urge it
by a single word."

Arthur did not feel hopeful; indeed his heart sank within him the whole
time that they were talking. Hamish and his difficulties were the dark
shadow; though he could not tell this to Mr. Yorke. Were Mr. Channing
to go abroad, and the arrest of Hamish to follow upon it, the post they
held, and its emoluments, might be taken from them at once and for
ever.

"Dr. Lamb says the cost was so trifling as scarcely to be credited,"
continued Mr. Yorke in a tone of remonstrance. "Arthur, _don't_ you
care to help--to save him?"

"I would move heaven and earth to save my father!" impulsively spoke
Arthur, stung by the implied reproof. "I should not care what labour it
cost me to procure the money, so that I succeeded."

"We all would," said Constance; "you must know we would, William. From
Hamish downwards."

"Who is that, making free with Hamish's name?" demanded that gentleman
himself, entering the house with a free step and merry countenance.