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"I don't know!" he answered shortly. "It requires consideration. I will see Lord Cheisford. You shall hear from me in the morning." That was all the consolation I had from Colonel Mostyn Ray. At ten o'clock the next morning the Duke came to me in the study, where I was already at work.

"Mitchell happened to be at the bank when the telegram came from Buckton announcing the death of Mrs. Mostyn. Buckton called it heart- failure, but everybody knew from the wording that it was suicide. Mitchell did, I am sure. He read the telegram with scarcely a change of face. I happened to be close to him at the moment, and heard him mutter: "'It is better so!

"Is it not amazing that a woman who could think like that should be capable of flinging up her art the art which I gave her on account of the preaching of that wooden-headed Mostyn?" Sitting down suddenly he opened a drawer, and, taking out her photograph, he said: "Here she is as Leonore, but you should have seen her in the part.

You are the only man who ever held me this way. There is no use saying it you know I love you. You know I couldn't help it. I'd be a queer girl if I didn't." He tried to detain her at the steps, but she would not stay. She entered the house, leaving the door open so that he might go up to his room. The next day was Sunday. Mostyn did not see Dolly at breakfast.

Pressing him fondly to his breast, he kissed the warm, flushed cheeks. Till dusk he played with the child on the grass, pitching the ball and teaching the little fellow to hit it. Then Hilda, the mulatto nurse, came for her charge, and little Dick, with many expostulations, was taken away. Going into the house, Mostyn met his father-in-law in the hall.

"Tell her, Mary, that I want to see her, but not to hurry, for I have plenty of time," Mostyn said, "I have just got back." "Yes, sir; I heard her say she was 'spectin' you to-day." He had an impulse to make inquiries of the girl regarding her mistress's disposition, but a certain evasive, almost satirical expression in her eyes prevented it.

Then with a touch of anxiety, "I hope all this cleverness was natural I mean, I hope it wasn't champagne. You know, Ethel, we think as we drink, and Fred isn't used to those frisky wines. Mostyn cellars are full of old sherry and claret, and Fred's father was always against frothing, sparkling wines." "Granny, it was all Fred.

Grenfell's father, after a brilliant career at Rugby School and at Balliol College, Oxford, became assistant master at Repton, and later, when he married, head master of Mostyn House School, a position which he resigned in 1882 to become Chaplain of the London Hospital. "He was a man of much learning, with a keen interest in science, a remarkable eloquence, and a fervent evangelistic faith."

His private fear was that when she reached Mostyn she would find that her father had gone somewhere else.

Look at him he's grinning he's laughing he is telling one of his funny yarns to pretend to Saunders that he is indifferent about the stock. Huh! Well he may laugh. Who knows, perhaps his luck will turn? The man that counts on luck is God's fool." Mostyn took out a cigar as he approached the two men. "Match?" he asked Delbridge.