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"May I get Auntie to write to him? She said she knows for sure he'd help us." "Well, he said so himself, didn't he?" "Yes. Anything in his power!" Dale reflected for a moment, and when he spoke again his tone was less firm. "In his power! Of course Mr. Barradine is a powerful gentleman. That stands to reason; but all the same Let's have a look at his letter." "I haven't got his letter, Will."
Barradine expressed the wish that the number should not be increased if, as he hoped, the income of the Trust grew bigger with the passage of time. He desired that extension of revenue should be devoted to improving the comfort and amenities of the fifty occupants, to increasing their dowries, and to assisting them after they had gone out into the world.
This pastor, who had succeeded old Melling a few years ago, was a short, bearded man of sixty, and he lived in lodgings on the outskirts of Rodchurch. Evidently he was not going home to dinner. Perhaps he had some sick person to visit, and he might get a snack at the Barradine Arms or one of the cottages.
Barradine came by his death was obvious. He had been riding through or near the rocks, and the horse, probably stumbling, had thrown him; and then, frightened and struggling away, had dragged him some considerable distance, until the rocks held him fast and tore him free. What remained doubtful was how or why Mr. Barradine approached the rocks.
Barradine, at the zenith of political power, exerted his influence; the postmastership was obtained. To top up, Dale made the not unpleasing discovery that Mavis was an heiress as well as an orphan. She had two hundred pounds of her very own, "which came in uncommon handy for the furnishing." And his education did not cease with wedlock.
He might even get Will spirited away, never to be found again! One was always reading in the newspaper of mysterious, inexplicable disappearances. New fears almost as bad as the old fear began to shake her again. Of this there could be no question. Mr. Barradine would pay a very large sum of money to avoid the threatened disgrace.
Barradine's hand he gave it a mercilessly severe squeeze. "Damnation!" Under the horny grip, Mr. Barradine emitted a squeal of pain. "Confound it my good fellow why the deuce can't you be careful what you're doing?" Mr. Barradine, very angry, was ruefully examining his hand; and Dale, apologizing profusely, stared at it too.
Barradine, sir, I thank you for what you've done for me and for the kind and open way you done it. So much he will expect, and the rest he will understand." He was equally determined to despatch a telegram giving the good news to Mrs. Petherick at North Ride Cottage, and he became almost huffy when Mavis again suggested that a letter would meet the case. "I don't understand you, Mav.
Auntie forbade her to utter a whisper or hint of it; she said that Mr. Barradine would never pardon such a betrayal of his confidence, whereas if a properly discreet silence were preserved he would give the bride a suitable wedding present, as well as push the fortunes of the bridegroom.
The horrid, lying, carneying old woman of the cottage received home truths instead of tea and sugar from Mavis Dale, who, with all her maternal feelings aroused, rushed off straightway to hunt for the neglectful father. She found him at the Barradine Arms, and demanded his permission to take away the child.
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