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Fenimore's; but when he drew near he signalled to the driver: 'Stop at the gate. Don't drive up. From the entrance to Mrs. Fenimore's round to the by-road which was the direct approach to Redgrave's bungalow would be a walk of some ten minutes. Hugh had his reasons for not taking this direction.
A contriver likes not others to learn his secret ere the time hath come to reap its profits." "Surely, surely!" said Adam, and alarmed at the idea thus suggested, he threw the folds of his gown over the model. The attendant bowed and retired; Hugh followed him, but not till he had exchanged a significant look with Allerton.
Then we take all the reports with the proverbial grain of salt. That Mademoiselle is a woman of outstanding intellect and courage, as well as of great beauty, cannot be denied. Therefore I tell you that I am intensely interested in this attempt upon her life." "And so am I," Hugh said. "I have a strong reason to be."
"But the thing is " Fleda knew quite well what the thing was, and did not answer. "But, my dear Hugh," she said, presently "I don't remember that sweep of hills when we were coming?" "You were going the other way," said Hugh. "Yes, but Hugh I am sure we did not pass these grain fields. We must have got into the wrong road." Hugh drew the reins, and looked and doubted.
"Do you want to kill your wife?" she demanded in a low voice of concentrated anger. "If so, you're going the right way about it." The next moment the door closed behind her, and Hugh found himself standing alone on the landing outside it. Although the scene with her husband did not kill Diane, it went very near it.
Then there had come to be that famous war between Great Britain and the republic of Patagonia, and Hugh Stanbury had been sent out as a special correspondent by the editor and proprietor of the Daily Record. His letters had been much read, and had called up a great deal of newspaper pugnacity.
The afternoon wore on, they returned to the garden for tea, and a peaceful stillness continued to reign about them, the very sky smiling placidly at her fears. Not by assuring her that Hugh was unusual horseman, that he had passed through many dangers beside which this was a bagatelle, could the student of the feminine by her side have done half so well.
Whether it was extravagant, unchristian, whatever might have been truly said of that unholy compact, Lord Newhaven would have stood by it. "I suppose I must stand by it, too," said Hugh to himself, the cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. "I suppose I am bound in honor to stand by it, too." He suffered his mind to regard the alternative.
He only hoped I would not incline to join McLane's troop, and when I asked why, declaring that to be my utmost desire, he said it was a service of needless peril. Upon this I laughed so that the hut shook, and poor Jack became quite disconcerted, and fell to making a variety of excuses. It is of this he says: "Hugh is come from death, and there is more to live for.
After that visit he was never lonely again. Mr. Pidgen came on a visit to the vicarage three days before Christmas. Hugh Seymour saw him first from the garden. Mr. Pidgen was standing at the window of Mr. Hugh had never before seen any one in the least like Mr. Pidgen. He was short and round, and his head was covered with tight little curls.
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