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'I suppose so, was the reply, so listlessly given that Mrs. Hylton glanced keenly at her daughter. 'What do you feel about it yourself, Ella? 'I? oh, I I've no feeling. Perhaps, if we waited no, it doesn't matter let it be when you and George wish, mother, please! Mrs.
"He rented a shoot called Rannoch, near Dumfries. A mysterious incident occurred on his estate a double murder, or murder and suicide; which is not quite clear but shortly afterwards there appeared one evening at the house a man named Chater, Hylton Chater, and the whole family at once fled and disappeared."
"I don't care a damn, Captain Hylton," said he, in a tone singularly different from any that he had used in our pleasant talk "if anybody knows I was born in a stable. A far better man than I once had that privilege.
There is no reason for believing, however, that this was the generally accepted notion at that time. For even Marshall himself a few years later, as attorney in the case of Ware v. Hylton, which involved the validity of an act of the legislature of Virginia, appears to have defended the opposite view before the United States Supreme Court.
"You, my dear Hylton, I shall be delighted to see." The emphasis on the pronoun would have rendered his meaning clear to even a more obtuse man than myself. No Lady Auriols flaunting over to Vichy. "May I ask when you came to this decision?" I enquired. "Bakkus's note suggested only a postponement of our meeting." "Last night," said he. "That's one reason why I sent for Bakkus."
As I walked on alone, with the dark line of woods crowning the hill-top before me, the scene of that double tragedy, I again calmly reviewed the situation. I longed to go to the hospital and see Hylton Chater, yet when I recollected the part he had played with Hornby on board the Lola, I naturally hesitated.
"Anthony " I could not help feeling that her repeated change of her term of reference to me, from the formal Captain Hylton to my Christian name, sprang from an instinctive desire to put herself on more intimate terms with Lackaday "Anthony," she said in her defiant way, "would have cried, if he could." Lackaday's features relaxed into his childlike smile.
Hylton, which was a suit brought by a British creditor to compel the payment by a citizen of Virginia of a pre-Revolutionary debt, in conformity with the stipulations of the treaty of peace.
That was why he was so anxious for the picture." Elma Heath dead! Could it be true? That sweet-pictured face haunted me as no other face had ever impressed itself upon my memory. It somehow seemed to impel me to endeavor to penetrate the mystery, and yet Hylton Chater had declared that she was dead! I recollected the remarkable letter from Abo, and her own declaration that her end was near.
"Three miles along the sea-shore. To-morrow I hope you'll both come and dine with me." "Delighted, I'm sure," declared Hornby. "To eat ashore is quite a treat when one has been boxed up on board for some time. So we'll accept, won't we, Hylton?"
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