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In a very few minutes the door was opened, and the porter staggered down, after a word with the driver, to the carriage-window, not half awake. "Is Lady Mardykes well?" demanded Lady Walsingham. "Is Sir Bale well?" "Are all the people at Mardykes Hall quite well?" With clasped hands Lady Haworth listened to the successive answers to these questions which her sister hastily put.
"You are quite certain that no one think no one is ill?" "There is no one ill at the Hall, my lady, that I have heard of." "Is Lady Mardykes, my sister, still up?" "Yes, my lady; and her maid is with her." "And Sir Bale, are you certain he is quite well?" "Sir Bale is quite well, my lady; he has been busy settling papers to-night, and was as well as usual."
Miss Janet, now Lady Mardykes, learning that his name was Feltram, made inquiry through a common friend, and learned what interested her still more about him. It ended in an acquaintance, which his manly and gentle nature and his entertaining qualities soon improved into an intimacy.
But in the meantime, all Golden Friars was anxious to see what Sir Bale Mardykes was like. The Baronet Appears As the candles burn blue and the air smells of brimstone at the approach of the Evil One, so, in the quiet and healthy air of Golden Friars, a depressing and agitating influence announced the coming of the long-absent Baronet.
The doctor and the attorney, even Sir Geoffrey Mardykes, did not disdain on this occasion to take chairs and smoke their pipes by the kitchen fire, where they were in the thick of the gossip and discussion excited by the terrible event. The tall stranger entered uninvited. He looked like a gaunt, athletic Spaniard of forty, burned half black in the sun, with a bony, flattened nose.
"There are dreams and dreams, my dear: there's some signifies no more than the babble of the lake down there on the pebbles, and there's others that has a meaning; there's dreams that is but vanity, and there's dreams that is good, and dreams that is bad. Lady Mardykes heavens be her bed this day! that's his grandmother I mean was very sharp for reading dreams. Take another cup of tea.
"Sit down, Doctor Torvey," said Lady Walsingham, who in the incapacity of her sister undertook the doing of the honours. "My sister, Lady Mardykes, has got it into her head somehow that Sir Bale is ill. I have been speaking to him; he certainly does not look very well, but he says he is quite well.
The foundation of all this had been laid in the nursery, in the winter's tales told by its fireside, and which seized upon his fancy and his fears with a strange congeniality. There is a large bedroom at Mardykes Hall, which tradition assigns to the lady who had perished tragically in the lake. Mrs.
A minister of state was drinking the waters at Bath; and Sir Oliver thought it would do him no harm to sip a little also, and his fashionable doctor politely agreed, and "ordered" to those therapeutic springs the knight of the shire, who was "consumedly vexed" to lose the Christmas with that jolly dog, Bale, down at Mardykes Hall.
Now that Sir Bale Mardykes had arrived at the Hall, there were hurried consultations held in many households. And though he was tried and sentenced by drum-head over some austere hearths, as a rule the law of gravitation prevailed, and the greater house drew the lesser about it, and county people within the visiting radius paid their respects at the Hall.
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