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Abruptly he held up a warning finger. For one instant his eyes commanded her, compelled her. Then deliberately he extracted two cigarettes, slipped one into his pocket, stuck the other between his lips. She watched him in silence. He returned the case to its owner with the slight, cynical smile she knew so well, and began to smoke. "What time is Sir Kersley Whitton going?" asked Violet. "Soon.
But we won't count on it too much or we may find ourselves crying for the moon, which is the silliest amusement I know. How do you like Sir Kersley Whitton?" "Oh, very much. You heard about about Violet's mother having been engaged to him, I suppose?" "He told me himself," said Nick. "What did he tell you, Nick?" Nick hesitated momentarily. "He spoke in confidence," he said then.
Nick, moreover, who had patiently chaperoned her for the past five weeks, was wanting to rejoin his wife who had returned to Redlands soon after Noel's operation. And Noel himself, though still undergoing treatment at his brother's hands, had so far recovered as to be able to leave the home and take up his abode temporarily with Sir Kersley Whitton and Max.
Sir Kersley Whitton fell silent. He looked at the door. Max wheeled from the window. Olga waited tensely for the coming of her friend. The door swung back and she entered. With her careless Southern grace she sauntered in upon them. "Good Heavens!" she said, breaking off in the middle of her song. "Is it a party of mutes?"
Wyndham is another, being the protégé of Kersley Whitton to whom the girl's mother was engaged and who was the first to discover the fatal tendency. She married Campion mainly out of pique because Whitton threw her over. He was a man of sixty, and his son was grown up at the time.
At Rothbury, a pele-tower has formed the dwelling of the Vicars of that town from the time that any mention of Whitton Tower is to be found, it being first noticed as "Turris de Whitton, iuxta Rothebery." Rothbury itself occupies quite the finest situation of any of the Northumbrian towns.
"Of course, Sir Kersley Whitton recommended him," conceded Olga. "And he is an absolutely wonderful man, Dad says. He calls him the greatest medicine-man in England. He took up Max Wyndham years ago, when he was only a medical student. And he has been like a father to him ever since. In fact, I don't believe Dr. Wyndham would ever have come here if Sir Kersley hadn't made him.
Markham, bringin' the notes about Helen Whitton the dope that she's been feedin' you. If you'll put that together with what the spirit she Miss Markham, told you tonight about declarin' dividends " "Mrs. Granger," interrupted Mrs. Markham, "you are a shrewd woman, but you carry your deductions a little far "
The tale you heard this morning was true every word of it. I heard it myself from Bruce Campion and also from Kersley Whitton. Kersley was engaged to marry her mother when he detected in her a tendency to madness which he afterwards discovered to be an hereditary taint in her family. It is a disease of the brain which is absolutely incurable.
"Max didn't tell me your name, you know," she said to the stranger. "This is Captain Ratcliffe of Wara." "Monkey!" said Nick briefly. "Plain Ratcliffe of no-where in particular is my description." The big man rose with outstretched hand. "I know you well by repute, and I am very pleased to meet you. My name is Whitton Kersley Whitton." "Goodness!" ejaculated Olga. "Max might have told me!"
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