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It was nearly one o'clock when he entered it, but the thought of sleep never occurred to him. He took out of his pocket the telegram from Braeside, re-read it, and destroyed it. So Mason was with her for of course it was Mason. Not one word of such a conjunction was to be gathered from the sister. She had clearly supposed that Laura would start alone and arrive alone. Or was she in the plot?
If she did not arrive by the first train he would get a horse at Marsland and drive on to Braeside. But first he must take care to leave a message for Mrs. Denton, whose venomous face, as she stood listening the night before to his story of Miss Fountain's mishaps, recurred to him disagreeably. The housekeeper would not be stirring yet, perhaps, for an hour.
She loves you at West Inch, and she loves me on the braeside; and in her devil's heart she cares a whin-blossom for neither of us. Let's join hands, man, and send the hellfire hussy to the right-about!" But this was too much. I could not curse her in my own heart, and still less could I stand by and hear another man do it; not though it was my oldest friend. "Don't you call names!" I cried.
She and her mother had lived now for two years at Braeside, a lovely country place which they had come to look on as home. Hildegarde was always happy, and was unconscious of any want in her life; but her mother often longed for another daughter, or a pleasant girl in the neighbourhood, to be a companion for her dear one.
Laura turned rather pale. "A telegram to Mr. Helbeck?" Polly, surprised at so much ignorance, could not forego the sensation that it offered her. She bit her lip, but the lip would speak. So the story of the midnight telegram as it had been told by that godly man Mr. Cawston of Braeside to that other godly man Mr.
But Marjory knew nothing of these causes, and, seeing only their effects, her feelings towards the newcomer had not softened at all by the time church was over. The three girls walked together as far as the turning to Braeside, and conversation flagged considerably. "Are there many parties here at Christmas?" asked Maud. "I don't know," replied Blanche. "Are there, Marjory?" "Not that I know of."
Good-bye, and long live the T. A.!" cried Alan, running off towards home. It was nearly four o'clock when they said good-bye at the Braeside gate, and it was rapidly getting dark. Marjory went quickly up the hill, fearing a reprimand from her uncle for being out so late. The day had been an eventful one, but its excitements were not yet over.
Why, there's no train beyond Braeside to-night." "No. 4 platform," said Hubert to his companion. "Train just going." Laura threw off her exhaustion and ran. The guard was just putting his whistle to his lips. Hubert lifted her into her carriage. "Good-bye," she said, waving to him, and disappeared at once into a crowd of fellow-passengers. "Right for Marsland?" cried Hubert to the guard.
He fell asleep in the heat of the day, and it was to him as if he were once more sitting by the old shepherd on the braeside, hearing him tell the old tales of Johnnie Armstrong or Willie o' the wudspurs.
In this frame of mind he determined that he would return to Hendon Hall almost immediately. Further hope of hunting with the Braeside Harriers there was none; and it was necessary for him to see Roden as soon as possible. That evening at the Castle Lady Amaldina got hold of him, and asked him his advice as to her future duties as a married woman.
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