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It was a fine, dry night, and feeling the need for exercise, Mr. Caryll set out to walk the short distance from St. James's Street to his lodging, with a link-boy, preceding him, for only attendant. Arrived home, he was met by Leduc with the information that Sir Richard Everard was awaiting him. He went in, and the next moment he was in the arms of his adoptive father.
He examined the heels very closely, going over to the window for the purpose. That done, he dropped them. "Your breeches now," said he laconically. Meanwhile Leduc had taken up the coat, and with a needle and thread wherewith he had equipped himself he was industriously restoring the stitches that Mr. Green had taken out. Mr. Caryll surrendered his breeches.
Leduc, who stood slightly behind him, fussily, busy about a little table on which were books and cordials, flowers and comfits, a pipe and a tobacco-jar, had just informed him for the first time that during the more dangerous period of his illness Mistress Winthrop had watched by his bedside for many hours together upon many occasions, and once on the day after he had been wounded, and while his fever was at its height Leduc, entering suddenly and quietly, had surprised her in tears.
"I am following my Lord Carteret's orders to the letter. I am to effect no arrest until I have positive evidence." "Yet you are detaining me. What does this amount to but an arrest?" Mr. Green disdained to answer. Leduc entered, and Mr. Caryll turned to Lord Ostermore.
He looked thinner, paler and more frail than was his habit, which is not wonderful, considering that he had been four weeks abed while his wound was mending. He was dressed, again by the hands of the incomparable Leduc, in a deshabille of some artistry.
Caryll had formed that all was far from well with his lordship. Leduc brimmed a glass, and handed it to my lord, who emptied it at a draught. Mr. Caryll waved an impatient hand. "Away with you, Leduc. Go watch the goldfish in the pond. I'll call you if I need you." After Leduc had departed a silence fell between them, and endured some moments.
But even when Leduc won the race, beating the best heat on record; when the ladies in the grand stand arose in a body, like a thousand butterflies, disturbed by a sudden footfall in a sunlit field; when the jockey became the hero of the hour; when the small boys outside nearly fell from the trees in their exuberance of ecstasy, and the men threw their hats in the air and shouted themselves hoarse even these exhilarating circumstances failed to reawaken the land baron's concern in the scene around him.
Kennedy had taken her hand, and as he heard us enter, turned half way to us, while we stared in blank wonder from Elaine to the weird and complicated electrical apparatus. "It is the life-current," he said simply, patting the Leduc apparatus with his other hand. With the ominous forefinger of his Clutching Hand extended, the master criminal emphasized his instructions to his minions.
You had better investigate to the bitter end." Mr. Green's small eyes continued to scrutinize Leduc at intervals. The valet was a silent, serious-faced fellow. "I'll search your servant, leastways," the spy announced. "By all means. Leduc, I beg that you will place yourself at this interesting gentleman's disposal." What time Mr.
With a gesture he dismissed Leduc, who returned to the neighborhood of the pond. His lordship frowned, angered by the interruption. Then: "If your ladyship will come inside," said he, "you will hear better and with greater comfort." "Not to speak of dignity," said Mr. Caryll. The stiff gown rustled again, this time without stealth. The countess appeared, no whit abashed. Mr. Caryll rose politely.
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