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When the two objects of vigilance concluded their lengthy consultation, and moved off in the direction of Lady Wetherby's woods, any doubts he may have had as to whether they were the criminals he had suspected them of being were dispersed. The whole thing worked out logically. The Man, having spied out the land in his two visits to Lady Wetherby's house, was now about to break in.
The boy, reinforced by the children of the entire neighborhood, held a circus in Miss Wetherby's wood-shed, and instituted a Wild Indian Camp in her attic. The poor woman was quite powerless, and remonstrated all in vain. The boy was so cheerfully good-tempered under her sharpest words that the victory was easily his. "Robert, I've stood all I'm a-goin' ter. You've got to go home Monday.
'Well, suggest something else, then. 'How about leaving him on Lady Wetherby's doorstep? See what I mean let them take him in with the morning milk? Or, if you would rather ring the bell and go away, and you don't think much of it? 'I simply haven't the nerve to do anything so risky. 'Oh, I would do it. There would be no need for you to come. 'I wouldn't dream of deserting you.
From the look on Lord Wetherby's face she supposed that he was under the delusion that he was bestowing this attention on his wife. 'You know, Algie, darling, said Lady Wetherby, melting completely, 'when you get that yearning note in your voice I just flop and take the full count.
This was where Lord Wetherby's shack-studio stood; and there it was, right in front of him, black and clear in the moonlight. And the two dark figures were going into it. Mr Pickering retreated into the shelter of the bushes and mused upon this thing. It seemed to him that for centuries he had been doing nothing but retreat into bushes for this purpose. His perplexity had returned.
Carew's home was not Della Wetherby's real opinion, however, was quickly proved; for no sooner had the nurse reached the Sanatorium than she learned something that sent her flying back over the fifty-mile journey to Boston the very next day. So exactly as before did she find circumstances at her sister's home that it seemed almost as if Mrs. Carew had not moved since she left her.
Not until then does he attempt introspection. Lord Dawlish, though ignorant of this fact, pursued almost identically the same policy. He did not run on leaving Lady Wetherby's house, but he took a very long and very rapid walk, than which in times of stress there are few things of greater medicinal value to the human mind.
Lady Wetherby's tranquil voice made itself heard. 'Nonsense; who could be in there? 'I heard him, I tell you. He growled at me! It seemed to Mr Pickering that the time had come to relieve the mental distress which he was causing his host. He raised his voice. 'It's all right! he called. 'There! said Lord Wetherby. 'Who's that? asked Lady Wetherby, through the door. 'It's all right.
The facts contained in Jim Wetherby's letter were telegraphed to Martine, and he was not long in discovering confirmation of them in the temporary hospitals near the battlefield. He found a man of Captain Nichol's company to whom Jim had related the circumstances.
Oh, you don't know how glad I am so soon that I came! I knew I would be, anyway, just as soon as I found out you were YOU that is, Miss Wetherby's sister, I mean. I love Miss Wetherby, so I knew I should you, too; for of course you'd be alike sisters, so even if you weren't twins like Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Peck and they weren't quite alike, anyway, on account of the wart.
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