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The messenger, as soon as he knew I was here, produced a letter for me that he was to have taken on to Lytchett. It is a nice letter a very nice letter, as far as that goes. Broadstone wanted me to use my influence with John described his difficulties " Chide's hand suddenly clinched on his knee. " If I could only get at that creature, Lord Philip!" "You think it was the shock killed him?"
Lady Lucy approached Sir James, who was standing apart, and murmured something in his ear, to the effect that she would come to Lytchett that evening, and would bring flowers. "Let mine be the first," she said, inaudibly to the rest. Sir James assented.
A carriage is at the door. You can catch the train at Lytchett, and be in Cullerne by mid-day." The episode was a relief to Lord Blandamer. The architect's attention was evidently absorbed in the tower. It might be that he had already found the blameless herb growing by the wayside. The nebuly coat shone on the panel of the carriage-door.
Chide made himself delightful to them. On that Italian journey of which he constantly thought, Ferrier had been amused and cheered all through by Bobbie's nonsense; and the young fellow had loyally felt his death and shown it. Chide's friendly eye would be on him and his Ettie henceforward. Five or ten minutes afterward, a brougham drove up to the door of Lytchett, and a small lady emerged.
"I have no wish to hurry you, Mr Westray," he said, "but your train leaves Lytchett in little over an hour. It will take you nearly that time to drive to the station. May I help you to repack this picture?" His voice was clear, level, and courteous, as on the day when Westray had first met him at Bellevue Lodge.
For she looked round her, bowed to him slightly, and disappeared with Mrs. Colwood. He spent two or three hours at Lytchett, making the first arrangements for the funeral, with Sir James. It was to be at Tallyn, and the burial in the churchyard of the old Tallyn church.
Sir James gave a slow and grudging assent to this; but in the end he did assent, after the relations between him and Marsham had become still more strained. Further statements were drawn up for the newspapers. As the afternoon wore on the grounds and hall of Lytchett betrayed the presence of a number of reporters, hurriedly sent thither by the chief London and provincial papers.
"Sir James wished me to leave him a little," she said, brokenly. "The ambulance will be here directly. They will take him to Lytchett. I thought it should have been Tallyn. But Sir James decided it." "Mother!" Marsham moved toward her, reluctantly "here is a letter no doubt of importance. And it is addressed to you." Lady Lucy gave a little cry.
"I am afraid it is useless to ask you to stop the night with us," he said; and Westray had his rejoinder ready: "No; I must leave Lytchett by the seven five train. I have ordered the fly to wait." He had named the last train available for London, and Lord Blandamer saw that his visitor had so arranged matters, that the interview could not be prolonged for more than an hour.
He could not bring himself to do it. It was as though Ferrier, lying still and cold at Lytchett, would know of it as though the act would do some roughness to the dead. He went into his sitting-room, found an empty drawer in his writing-table, thrust in the newspaper, and closed the drawer. "I regard this second appeal to West Brookshire as an insult!" said the Vicar of Beechcote, hotly. "If Mr.