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Jordan listened with increasing interest as the story was told, interrupting only when Sedgwick spoke of his love for Grace Meredith, and when he explained how Jack had been swindled. To the first he joyfully responded: "I am glad, old boy, blast my broad-horned heart if I aint! She's a daisy; she's a real woman; and I thank God she found yo' and tuk pity on yo'."
"Then, my dear Bev?" said the Viscount impulsively. "Yes, my dear Dick?" "Suppose we shake hands on it?" "Willingly, Dick, yet, first, I think it but honorable to tell you that I love the Lady Cleone Meredith." "Eh what?" exclaimed the Viscount, falling back a step, "you love her? the devil you do! since when?" "Since this morning."
I have my own money but, well, I'll stay on if it will help you in your business." Then light dawned. "You will stay on!" Thornton snapped the words out. "You are my wife, and you will stay on!" "Very well. I will stay," Meredith turned and walked away. Thornton looked after her and his face softened. Something in him was touched by the spirit under the cold, crude exterior of the girl.
Mike lil' Injun, so big, Mike take canoe oop and down," explained the trapper, holding his hand down to his knees to show the boys how long he had been acquainted with the treacherous channel. Paul was soaked and Meredith partially wet, so the boys ran over to the raft where a hot fire was soon blazing to dry off their outer clothing.
She had been oppressed with dread that she should not arrive in time. No time had been set, no one knew that she was coming, and the forenoons were long. Nevertheless impatience consumed her to encounter Mrs. Meredith; and once on the way, inasmuch as Pansy usually walked as though she had been told to go for the doctor, but not to run, she was not long in arriving.
"You've rather taken my breath away," she said after a while. "All this wants thinking about, and if Mr. Meredith is in prison " "Mr. Meredith is not in prison," said Glover quietly. "He was released two days ago to go to a nursing home for a slight operation. He escaped from the nursing home last night and at this particular moment is in this house."
It appears that Hoggins had effected an entrance into Mrs. Meredith's flat, descending from the roof by means of a rope, making his way into the premises through the window of Mrs. Meredith's bedroom. Whilst there he was detected by Mrs. Meredith, who would undoubtedly have been murdered had not Dr. Thun, who, in some mysterious manner, had gained admission to the flat, intervened.
Mrs. Meredith, for the sake of the quiet, had been put in the back room, the daughter taking that on the street, and this arrangement, as it proved, was a fortunate one.
"Claims?" Thornton laughed, and the sound had a dangerous note that startled Meredith. "Claims? Good Lord! That's quaintly delicious. You don't know men, my dear. It would be a deed of charity to inform you. Claims, indeed! You drove me, when you might have held me, and you talk claims." "I did not want to hold you after I knew that you had never really been mine."
"He was devoted to his first wife, this girl told me," said Lord Ashiel. "You never knew Lena Meredith, Gimblet, or you would not be surprised that people kept their promises to her. She was my wife's friend, as I told you, and I only saw her once, but I don't think I shall ever forget her.
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