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You will have everything ready white choker, black coat and all the rest of it, and now, my dear boy, you've got to excuse me as I've got a lot of work on hand." They shook hands and Langdon's footsteps were soon echoing down the corridor. The foul insinuation that Sanderson had just made about Anna rankled in his mind. He went to the sideboard and poured himself out a good stiff drink.
What proper avenging of Brother William's death, your own wrongs, and of Oswald Langdon's murder! "With but faint hint of terrible after strain, nerved by these strong appeals, I entered into this fearful covenant. "Soon after this conversation Sir Charles Chesterton and Agnes Randall received invitations to a ball given by a prominent Bombay resident. They there met Paul Lanier.
Why, there, on those same steps, a bare six months ago Something snapped in her head, and she stumbled to her feet, clinging to the arm of her chair. "I can't stand it!" she gasped. "No, no, it's no use I can't, I tell you. Rosemary's arm was about her Mrs. Langdon's soft voice in her ears a deeper note from Rosemary's engineer. "Oh, I say, poor girl! What is it, dear child what's the matter?
Blacklock," she said plaintively, "I only wished to say what was pleasant and nice about your fiancée. I know she's a lovely girl. I've often admired her at the opera. She goes a great deal in Mrs. Langdon's box, and Mrs. Langdon and I are together on the board of managers of the Magdalene Home, and also on the board of the Hospital for Unfortunate Gentlefolk." And so on, and on.
"She could not have done that better if she had been brought up Lady Langdon's daughter, instead of having been under that general's tuition, and emancipated from a life of seclusion, just about six months. Decidedly, she is worth cultivating." He looked at her reflectively. That he was in utter disgrace admitted of not a doubt. Women found little fault with him, as a rule.
With ruin staring him in the face, Blacklock takes energetic measures to save himself. He makes the startling discovery that Langdon is the person responsible for the rise in Textile, the object being to drive him from the Street. He sees Anita, tells her the situation and frees her, but she refuses to accept her release when she hears of Langdon's duplicity.
"You don't have an allowance, then?" "No; papa declared I ought to dress on eighty pounds a year, but I never could make both ends meet, and I got a tiresome long bill at Langdon's, and that vexed him, so now I get what I like and mamma pays." Erica made no comment, but was not a little amazed. Presently Mrs. Fane-Smith came in, and seemed well pleased with her niece's appearance.
I asked myself, and I felt that if I could answer, I should find I had the means wholly or partly to defeat them. But I could not explain to my satisfaction even Langdon's activities against me. I felt that Anita was somehow, in part at least, the cause; but, even so, how had he succeeded in convincing Roebuck that I must be clipped and plucked into a groundling?
And in that space of a second or two Langdon's hands involuntarily gripped at his broken rifle, and he decided that he was doomed! A broken, choking breath a stifled sound that was scarcely a cry was all that came from Langdon's lips as he saw the monstrous grizzly looking at him. In the ten seconds that followed he lived hours. His first thought was that he was powerless utterly powerless.
Yet it is creditable both to his ability and energy, that, laying hold of what was really valuable in Langdon's contrivance; he constructed the model of a machine for raising water from coal-mines, and other great depths, by means of what he termed the "renovated pressure of the atmosphere." On communicating this invention to Mr.
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