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But Lord Arranmore interposed. If he were acting it was marvellously done. "I beg," he said, "that you will none of you desert me. These accusations of Miss Scott, I believe are unnerving. A murderer, a swindler and a rogue are hard names, young lady. May I ask if your string of invectives is exhausted, or is there any further abuse which you feel inclined to heap upon me?"

It was not until the young people appeared themselves, and at once monopolized all attention, that Arranmore was able to draw his companion away into comparative solitude. "Do you by any chance correspond with Brooks?" he asked her. She shook her head. "No!" she answered. "I was thinking of that. I should like him to know from one of us. Can't you write him, Arranmore?"

He rose, and the two women passed from the room. Then he resumed his former seat, and attitude, and Brooks, though he tried to speak, felt his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth, a dry and nerveless thing. For in these doings there was tragedy. "There remains to me you, Philip Kingston, my son," Lord Arranmore said, in the same measured tone.

Sometimes I feel here as though I were a modern Aladdin. There is a sense of unreality about Lord Arranmore's extraordinary kindness to me. To-night, more than ever, I cannot help feeling that it is something like a dream which may pass away at any moment." She looked at him thoughtfully. "Lord Arranmore is not an impulsive person," she said.

And in the second I had every confidence in your own judgment." She was suddenly very thoughtful. "My own judgment," she repeated. "I am afraid that I have lost a good deal of faith in that lately." "Why?" "I have learned to repent of that impulsive visit of mine to Enton." "Again why?" "I was mad with rage against Lord Arranmore. I think that I was wrong.

Arranmore rose up. "I am going down to Christie's to see some old French manuscripts," he said. "Is that on your way?" Molyneux shook his head. "Going down to the House, thanks," he answered. "I'll look you up again some time, if I may." They walked out into the street together. Arranmore stepped into his brougham and was driven off. At the top of St.

"Does he does Lord Arranmore know anything of this?" She shook her head. "Not from me. He may have heard whispers. To tell you the truth, I myself have been asked questions during the last few days. You have been seen about a good deal with Sybil, and you are rather a mystery to people. That is why I felt compelled to speak." He nodded. "I see!" "You must not blame me," she went on, softly.

Bullsom came hurrying up. "Cab waiting," he announced. "Come on, girls." "See you later, then, Brooks." Brooks changed his clothes leisurely, and went into the smoking-room for some sandwiches and a glass of wine. A small boy shouting his number attracted his attention. He called him, and was handed a card. "Lord Arranmore!" "You can show the gentleman here," Brooks directed.

"How well you play those cannons. "I ought to. I had lessons for years. Is he a native of Medchester?" Lord Arranmore was blandly puzzled. She finished her stroke and turned towards him. "Mr. Brooks, you know. We were talking of him." "Of course we were," he answered. "I do not think so. He is an orphan. I met his father in Canada." "He reminds me of some one," she remarked, in a puzzled tone.

His eyes were fixed steadily, almost longingly upon Lord Arranmore's. His manner was not wholly free from nervousness. "I am very much obliged to you, Lord Arranmore," he said. "I quite understand that you are making me the offer of a princely settlement out of the Arranmore estates to which I have no manner of claim. It is not possible for me to accept it." There was a moment's silence.