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"I have brought you these from Cousin Charlotte," said Penelope, advancing to the table with her wide, frank smile; "and I was to give them to you myself if you were at home." Miss Row took the basket and the letter, but she was paying more attention to their bearer than to either. "I suppose you are one of Miss Ashe's young cousins?" said Miss Row abruptly.
But at this Miss Ashe's gentle spirit rose, and she talked to Miss Row so frankly and seriously that that eccentric lady became very repentant, and to make up for her unkindness promised Penelope the post of organist, at a salary of twenty-five pounds a year, as soon as ever she was capable of filling it.
It was simply through stray references, offhand bits of talk, as they checked up resources and distances, that Thompson pieced out the four years of Ashe's wanderings across Canada four years of careless, happy-go-lucky drifting along streams and through virgin forest, sometimes alone, sometimes with a partner; four years of hunting, fishing, and camping all the way from Labrador to Lone Moose.
Moreover, Ashe's success in the House of Commons was no longer what it had been earlier in the session. The party papers had cooled. Elizabeth Tranmore felt a blight in the air. Yet William, with his position in the country, his high ability, and the social weight belonging to the heir of the Tranmore peerage and estates, was surely not a person to be lightly ignored! Would Lord Parham venture it?
"How ?" He began and then changed to "Where ?" For this was not the engine room of the spacer. He lay in the open, with sweet, rain-wet wind filling his starved lungs now without Ashe's force aid. "It is over," Ashe told him, "all over for now." But not until the sun reached the canyon hours later and they sat in council, did Ross learn all the tale.
I would not have intruded; but this young man expressed a desire to examine the exhibits, and I took the liberty of conducting him." "Come in, Beach come in," said Baxter. The light fell on Ashe's face, and he recognized him as the cheerful young man who had inquired the way to Mr.
Don't all speak at once, and don't mind saying so, if you don't want me." The bitter drop in this pleasant intelligence there generally is one, you know was that the fortnight of Ned's stay was to be spent at Mrs. Ashe's. "It's her only chance to see Ned," said Katy; "so I know you won't mind, for afterward you will have me for such a long visit." But they did mind very much!
Then in the midst of her tirade she suddenly paused, and fixing Ashe with her brilliant eyes, she asked him a surprising question, in a changed and steady voice: "Is Lady Tranmore not well?" Ashe was fairly startled. "Thank you, I left her quite well. Have you " "Did maman ask her to come to-night?" It was Ashe's turn to redden. "I don't know. But we are in mourning, you see, for my brother."
Presently his scullery maid stopped at a door and tapped thereon. A fruity voice, like old tawny port made audible, said: "Come in!" Ashe's guide opened the door. "The gentleman, Mr. Beach," said she, and scuttled away to the less rarefied atmosphere of the kitchen. Ashe's first impression of Beach, the butler, was one of tension.
And Thompson did not like to think he had read Carr's look aright, because he was uncomfortably aware that he, Wes Thompson, was following pretty much in Ashe's footsteps, only on a smaller scale. He tore the figured sheet into little strips, and went to bed. At a minute or two of ten the next morning Thompson stopped his car before the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
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