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"I will think about it," he said. After Ada Forcus had gone to bed he kept his promise: sitting motionless in his chair, his elbow on the arm of it, his head upon his hand thinking about it. A Prohibition Cancelled "Any letter of interest?" Sir Francis asked of his sister, who, breakfast being over, was glancing again through the correspondence the morning's post had brought her.
"Could we ask Sir Francis Forcus? He is very rich." "I will go somewhere I will ask some one," Mrs. Day said; but, trying to stand, she fell back in her chair, and her frightened children saw that she had fainted. They laid her on the sofa, and over her prostrate body renewed the subject of the bail. "Bessie must go," Deleah said.
He bowed sulkily to Mr. Reginald Forcus, when Mrs. Day murmured that gentleman's name. The fact that the young man when he came of an age to take the third share which was to be his in the brewery would be rolling in money, was nothing to him, and he wished to show to all present it was not!
There were but two of them at the time: Francis Forcus Sir Francis, for the last twelve months, he having been knighted in the second year of his mayoralty on the visit of a Royal Personage to his native town and Reginald, his brother, born twenty years after himself of his father's second marriage, and now in his twenty-fourth year.
Her little Franky crushed to death beneath the wheels of the Forcus carriage! In her heart the mother would have liked Deleah to reject the good things offered her by the Forcus hand. "Of course I am not happy!" Deleah said. "How can I be happy, mama, if you are unhappy? And poor little Franky do you think I forget him? And Bernard, and poor papa?
It is more than possible that if George Boult and Sir Francis Forcus had refused to stand bail for him, and he had remained for those ten weeks in prison, he would have been less unhappy there than was possible to him, a consciously guilty man, in the changed atmosphere of his home. What had happened had changed for him for ever his relations with wife and children.
She might say only the one girl, for the elder had started wildly crying at the appearance of Miss Forcus, and had not recovered when she left. "The poor little boy seems to have been their idol," Ada said with a sigh, miserably oppressed.
You know I hated the thought of your going; but why is it to be for Reggie especially? Were you and Reggie such friends?" Deleah admitted without enthusiasm that they were certainly friends. "Then, no doubt he will be glad to see you," Miss Forcus said, and thought to herself that now she was going to have the daughter of a felon for her sister-in-law.
"Reggie Forcus has ridden past three times this afternoon, mama," Bessie informed her parent. Then turned sharply on her sister, "You were at school, miss." "I met him as I came away," said Deleah, seating herself at the table. "I wish the pleasure had been yours instead of mine, Bessie." "Did he stop to speak?" "Of course he stopped. He always stops." "Well?" "He asked for you."
Very frequently it was necessary for him to remind himself of the fact; for between the duty-loving, serious-minded, middle-aged, sorrowing widower and his half-brother was very little in common. A clerk opening the door announced that a lady had called who was waiting to see Sir Francis. "A lady? My sister Miss Forcus?" "A young lady. She didn't give her name." "Ask it, please."
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