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As we could not get beyond this question, we left the riddle for time to solve, and turned next to the singular state of mind into which young Henry Wallingford had fallen. "Well," said my wife, speaking with some emphasis, after I had told her of the case, "I never imagined that he cared so much for the girl!" "What girl?" I inquired.
He got twenty-seven hundred pounds currency with my mother, similarly bestowed; and, two or three great landed proprietors, and as many retired merchants from York, excepted, Captain Wallingford was generally supposed to be one of the stiffest men in Ulster county.
I had made all the calculations about the tide, and knew that the Wallingford would go out about nine in the morning, leaving us to follow before midnight. It was necessary to depart at night and when the wharf was clear, in order to avoid observation. Tuesday was an uneasy, nervous and sad day for us all, Mr. Hardinge excepted.
"It just looks to me as if Wallingford had anticipated that something was about to happen. Had he ever given you any idea in his letters that he was going to do this?" "Never!" replied Brent. "Still I'm the only very near relative that he had." "Well," said Tansley, "it may be mere coincidence, but it's a bit odd that he should be murdered within a week of that will's being made.
In a sort of awe she hesitated a moment and then said timidly, "Captain Bodine." He looked up quickly, and seeing Mara's lustrous eyes and flushed face, divined instantly who she was. "Is not this Miss Wallingford?" he asked, his face expressing glad anticipation as he began to gather up his crutches. "Do not rise," cried Mara, coming forward instantly with outstretched hands.
They told this to Henry, they urged him to go ahead and become a strictly moral Wallingford, they slapped him on the back and assured him that if there was justice in the Sunday-school books, he was certain to finish in the money; and Henry, who had provided himself with several air-tight alibis, found them dead stock on his hands.
"We have got the ship, Moses," I commenced, "and the question next arises, what we are to do with her?" "Carry her to her port of destination, Captain Wallingford, to be sure. What else can we do with her, sir?" "Ay, that is well enough, if it can be done.
Hardinge returned the customary thanks to those who had assembled to assist me "in burying my dead out of my sight," I had even sufficient fortitude to bow to the little crowd, and to walk steadily away. It is true, that John Wallingford very kindly took my arm to sustain me, but I was not conscious of wanting any support.
xii End of the Campaign of 1006. The following extract from the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" gives the further history of the campaign very concisely: "Then went the Danes to Wallingford, and that all burned, and were then one day in Cholsey: and they went then along Ashdown to Cuckamsley hill, and there abode, as a daring boast; for it had been often said, if they should reach Cuckamsley hill, that they would never again get to the sea: then they went homewards another way.
What humble and devout Christians have I known to kneel at its little altar, Miles, among whom your mother, and your venerable old grandmother, were two of the best. I hope the day is not distant when I shall meet there another Mrs. Miles Wallingford. Marry young, my boy; early marriages prove happier than late, where there are the means of subsistence."
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