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On the morning that she was to sail one of the Lascars was on board; I thought it possible that in order to throw anyone who might be following you off your scent you might at the last moment go ashore, and that Mr. Chetwynd might take the diamonds over, so I watched, and saw you on the deck with your friend.
"Les absents ont toujours tort" and Saidie found so much to say and said it in such a contemptuous, scornful way to Howard Astley, about her sister's husband, that perhaps there was some little excuse for the young man's impression that Bella Chetwynd would be vastly better off under his protection than amid her present surroundings. "The man was a brute," Miss Blackall declared.
She told herself, "I am not your common foolish parent. I see my children impartially. I am incapable of being flattered concerning them." Nevertheless she was flattered, and the thought shaped itself that really Sophia was no ordinary girl. "I suppose she has talked to you about becoming a teacher?" asked Miss Chetwynd, taking a morsel of the unparalleled jam.
And Sir Chetwynd had heard much of Cairo; he understood that there was a great deal of liberty allowed there between men and maids, that they went out together on driving excursions to the Pyramids, that they rode on lilliputian donkeys over the sand at moonlight, that they floated about in boats at evening on the Nile, and that, in short, there were more opportunities of marriage among the "flesh-pots of Egypt" than in all the rush and crush of London.
"Miss Blackhall how unkind to deny me admittance. You must know how fearfully anxious I am. How is she?" "There's the doctor ask him." The stranger turned eagerly. "This is not serious, I trust. She was always delicate, but it is wonderful how she pulls together when the worst is over." For almost the first time in his life John Chetwynd was tongue-tied.
John Thorndyke, going up to town shortly afterwards, went to the headquarters of the Bow Street runners, and had a talk with their chief in reference especially to the stoppage of the Reigate coach. Mr. Chetwynd had lately died, and John Thorndyke had been unanimously elected by his fellow magistrates as chairman of the bench. "No, Mr. Thorndyke, we have no clew whatever.
Denzil flung himself into the chair Sir Chetwynd had just vacated, and gave vent to a sigh that was almost a groan. "Helen doesn't know anything yet," he said hoarsely. "I know nothing myself; how can I? I haven't said a word to to HER. If I spoke all that was in my mind, I daresay she would laugh at me. You are the only one who has guessed my secret.
"Well, Mark," Dick Chetwynd said cheerfully, in order to turn the subject, "I am heartily glad that we have got to the bottom of this jewel mystery.
Miss Chetwynd, carefully and precisely seated, opened the conversation by explaining that even if Mrs. Baines had not written she should have called in any case, as she made a practice of calling at the home of her pupils in vacation time: which was true. Mrs.
She held the spoon with her thumb and three fingers. Her fourth finger, in matters of honest labour, would never associate with the other three; delicately curved, it always drew proudly away from them. "Has she mentioned that to you?" Mrs. Baines demanded, startled. "Oh yes!" said Miss Chetwynd. "Several times.
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