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He paused drearily, and Atherton said, "And how did she actually treat you?" "I hardly know. I hadn't been at the pains to look them up since the thing happened, and I had been carrying their squalid secret round for a fortnight, and suffering from it as if it were all my own." Atherton smiled at the touch of self-characterization.
His father and Mr. Atherton had been schoolfellows and old friends. He was affectionately received, and was invited to pay a visit the next day to the lawyer's villa at Richmond. "You will be near enough to London to attend to your business at the Admiralty," said Mr.
"Damn fool, Pinkerton," he said gruffly, "Never could see the attraction myself dancing girls almond eyes and all that sort of thing." Craven made no answer but his whistling stopped suddenly and the knuckles of his clasped hands whitened. Atherton looked away quickly and his eyeglass fell with a little tinkle against a waistcoat button. There was another long pause.
Morris, who had been sent on by Mistress Jane Atherton when she had heard the news, was there holding his horse by the bridle; and behind him had collected a little crowd of idlers. He gave the bridle to one of them, and came down the steps to help them out of the boat. "You have heard?" said Chris as he stepped out last. "Yes, father," said the servant.
"But don't you think this is a case for a a doctor, rather than a detective?" Atherton glanced up quickly. "Kennedy," he answered slowly, "where millions of dollars are involved, no one can guess to what lengths the human mind will go no one, except you." "Then you have suspicions of something worse?" "Y-yes but nothing definite. Now, take this case.
Now, Atherton, I ask you to t- tell me frankly, what do you think of a child who behaves as she has done? who t-takes a nameless vagabond into the house and con- conceals his presence from her father? And m-mark the sequel! even the vagabond warns her against the r-rascal Lessingham! Now, Atherton, tell me what you think of a girl who behaves like that? I shrugged my shoulders.
"I came to see if I could be of any use to you, Master More; I know a friend's face is a good councillor sometimes, even though that friend be a fool." More patted him softly on the knee. "No fool," he said, "far from it." He looked at him so oddly that Ralph feared that he suspected him; so he made haste to bring out Beatrice's letter. "Mistress Atherton has written me this," he said.
'He escaped by the much more prosaic method of dashing through the drawing-room window, and clambering down from the verandah into the street, where he ran right into someone's arms. 'Into whose arms, a constable's? 'No; into Mr Atherton's, Sydney Atherton's. 'The inventor? 'The same. Do you know him? 'I do. Sydney Atherton and I are friends of a good many years' standing.
And," he said, straightening up, "I find that Eugenia Atherton has within her blood an undue proportion of these thyroid hormones. Now, is it overfunction of the glands, hyper-secretion or is it something else?" No one moved as Kennedy skillfully led his disclosure along step by step.
"That is the messenger," he said to himself, triumphantly, "and it is quite time, too." But it was a man's heavy footstep that mounted the stairs, and when Allan Lyster looked anxiously at the door, he was astonished to see Lord Atherton enter, carrying a thick riding whip in his hand. He sprang obsequiously from his chair.
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