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"Please, sir, missus is in, but she ain't alone; Captain George and Mrs. George's father have just come not half an hour ago." And so Joyce Harker's self-imposed task was at an end, and George Jernam's long brooding upon his brother's fate was over.
The "Albatross" was not ready for her next cruise till three months after George Jernam's first visit to River View Cottage, nor did the captain of the vessel seem particularly anxious to hasten the completion of the repairs.
Good luck to you, dear old boy, now and always, and every good wish. From your affectionate brother," "GEORGE JERNAM." It was Joyce Harker's melancholy task to tell Valentine Jernam's younger brother the story of the seaman's death.
That's the sort of thing you'd do, if I happened to be a born innocent, isn't it, Mr. Wayman? But you see I'm not a born innocent, so you won't get the chance of doing anything of the kind." "Don't be a fool," returned Dennis Wayman, in a surly tone. "You'll please to remember that one half of Valentine Jernam's money belongs to me, and ought to have been in my possession long before this.
When the clergyman reached the house, and lifted his hand to the bright knocker, he heard a sound of many and gleeful voices within a sound which died away as he knocked for admittance. Presently the door was opened by Mrs. Jernam's trim maid, who replied, when Mr. Colburne asked if he could see Mrs. Jernam, and if she were alone as a hint that he did not wish to see any one beside
Poor Rosamond remembered having heard of the fatal effects of sunstrokes effects which have sometimes revealed themselves long after the occurrence of the calamity that caused them; and she told herself that the change in George Jernam's nature must needs be the result of such a calamity.
Never did a married couple begin their new life with a fairer prospect than that which lay before George Jernam and his wife when they returned to River View Cottage. Captain Duncombe received his son-in- law with the hearty welcome of a true seaman; but a few days after George Jernam's return, the old sailor took him aside, and made an announcement which filled him with surprise.
Despite all differences of character, their love for each other had known neither change nor diminution; and to-day, walking alone upon this quiet country road, the tears clouded Valentine Jernam's eyes as he remembered how often he had trodden it in the old time with his little brother in his arms. "I shall see his dear face on the fifth," he thought; "God bless him!"
Larkspur, after a long and agitating explanation had put Lady Eversleigh in possession of all the foregoing circumstances. "And here's Captain Jernam's brother comes and takes the job of finding little missy out of my hands does my work for me as clean as a whistle." "But I did not know I was doing it, Mr. Larkspur," said George.
When at length that long-deferred meeting took place, Valentine Jernam's murder was a mystery rather more than five years old, and Mr. Andrew Larkspur had made no progress towards its solution. He had been obliged to acknowledge to Joyce Harker that he had not struck the right trail, and to confess that he had begun to despond.
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