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Moreover, she decided not to press her nephew to visit her at present. Next morning, Medenham was up betimes. He heard the early postman's knock, and Tomkinson in person brought the letters. "There's nothink in the name of Fitzroy, my lord," said he, having been warned in that matter overnight.
Lord luv yer, they'll twist a tale twenty ways for Sundays to suit their own pupposes afterwards." Lightning struck from a cloudless sky a second time that night at Symon's Yat, and in its gleam was revealed the duplicity of Mrs. Devar. Medenham could not guess the double significance of Dale's message and failure to appear, but he was under no delusion now as to the cause of those honeyed words.
It did not even occur to him it might be advisable to call again at the College Green Hotel, since Medenham had slept elsewhere, and Hereford was now the goal. Certainly, the Frenchman's good fairy might have pushed her good offices to excess by permitting him to see, careering about Bristol with a pair of chauffeurs, the man whom he believed to be then on the way to London.
Medenham found, however, that she also had handed him a sovereign, and his conscience smote him, for he guessed already, with accuracy as it happened, that she was Miss Vanrenen's paid chaperon during the absence of the girl's father on the Continent. "Personally, I am a duffer in matters connected with the turf," he explained. "A friend of mine a chauffeur mentioned Eyot "
Simmonds positively jumped when he heard his name. He wheeled round, raised his cap, and broke into stuttering excuse. "I beg your lordship's pardon I hadn't the least notion " These two had not met since they discussed Boer trenches and British generals during a momentary halt on the Tugela slope of Spion Kop. Medenham remembered the fact, and forgave a good deal on account of it.
And Fitzroy was Viscount Medenham, heir to the Fairholme estates, one of the most eligible young bachelors in the kingdom! Oh, blind and crass that she had not guessed the truth!
Devar, gazing darkly at Cynthia's too innocent discovery of Medenham standing on the tiny quay, came the Welsh maid, saying: "Beg pardon, mam, but iss your chauf-feur's name Fitz-roy?" "Yes." "Then he iss wan-ted on the tel-e-phone from Her-e-ford, mam." "There he is, below there, near the river." Mrs.
What money I could scrape together I devoted to the furtherance of this marriage-project, and I am well aware that when you meet Mr. Vanrenen, my poor little cobweb of intrigue will be blown into thin air. You are quite a desirable parti, Viscount Medenham every condition points to your speedy and happy union to the lady of your choice.
So Cynthia was charmed but not convinced, and Medenham himself could scarce believe his recollection that the tops of the towers of the far larger bridge at Brooklyn would be only twenty-six feet higher than the roadway at Clifton. Mrs. Devar, of course, showed an utter lack of interest in the debate. Indeed, she refused emphatically to walk to the middle of the bridge, on the plea of light-headedness, and Cynthia instantly availed herself of the few minutes' tête-
Feeling that Dale would have managed this part of the day's adventures far better than himself, Medenham took his seat and touched the switch. "We have to make Bristol by seven o'clock, so I shall pull out in front; I suppose Count Marigny will give the ladies the road?" he remarked casually. Smith was listening to the engine. "Runs like a watch, don't it?" was his admiring cry.
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