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Trees to climb, and grandfather watering the geranium-beds below! What was to be done? Tell Dad he must come home? Confide in June? only she was so so sudden! Do nothing and trust to luck? After all, the Vac. would soon be over. Go up and see Val and warn him off? But how get his address? Holly wouldn't give it him! A maze of paths, a cloud of possibilities! He lit a cigarette.
Ardmuir House and some of its land had been Church property before the Reformation. Val looked the matter up once, and discovered that it had been a dependency upon one of the larger abbeys, and was itself a place of no little importance. The mansion itself was rather picturesque; it had been rebuilt in a later century on the site and from the materials of the former church and monastery.
Dolores knew nothing about ancient history, and thought it foolish to study anything that did not tell in a Cambridge examination; but she supposed they knew no better down there; and when it came to her turn to read, she mangled the names so, that Val burst out laughing when she spoke of A-pious-Claudius.
Phil accordingly withdrew to follow up his own speculations, and in a few minutes our friends, who so bravely distinguished themselves in the widow's cabin, entered the office. Val, like most men of his class and experience, was forced to undergo strong contests between the vanity occasioned by his success in life, and his own shrewd sense and acute perception of character.
Val said he should be some time at Brighton, and he gave her his address and offered her his washing. She asked for his name, too, and he replied you know how grave Val is 'Well, ma'am, I'm sorry to say I cannot oblige you with my name, because I don't know it.
"There is no necessity, gentlemen," said Val, "for my making an apology for this shocking sight you all know the life, in this respect, that my unfortunate father led." * This, like most other scenes in the present work, is no fiction. "In any case it is unprecedented," replied one of them; "but if he be so near death, as we apprehend, it is utterly unaccountable it is awful." They then entered.
Here; you take the hull works, and if you need more, I can easy git it for you by sendin' in to the bank." "Oh, but this is too much!" Val protested when she had counted the money. "You're so good but really and truly, I won't need half " Arline pushed away the proffered money impatiently. "How'n time are you goin' to tell how much you'll need?
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Alone with Val after dinner, he sipped port deferentially and answered the advances of this new-found brother-in-law. Jon said he was accustomed to all that at home, and saw that he had gone up one in his host's estimation. "Fleur," said Val, "can't ride much yet, but she's keen. Of course, her father doesn't know a horse from a cart-wheel. Does your Dad ride?"
The slim form and sleepy eyes began to suggest that activity and ferocious genius for pursuit which are the first qualities of a ferret. "If we could be more private," suggested Inspector Val, casting a tired glance about the big public room at Willard's where the two had met. "We will go to my house," replied Richard. "And if you don't mind, we'll ride."
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