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And I couldn't possibly either write or telegraph last night it was too late." "Where were you?" said Ashe, slowly. "I went to the Alcots' this morning, and " " the butler told you Madeleine was in bed? So she is. She was ill yesterday morning. There was no coach and no party. I went with Geoffrey."
Outside the house he suddenly asked himself what line he was going to take with Kitty. Kitty, however, was not at home. As far as he could remember she had gone coaching with the Alcots into Surrey, Geoffrey Cliffe, of course, being of the party.
Kitty held herself erect; her eyes, from which the tears were involuntarily dropping, were fixed on her husband. "Of course I guessed that," said Ashe. "It was Geoffrey brought me the news here, just as I was starting to go to the Alcots'. Then he said he had something to read me and it would be delicious to go to Pangbourne spend the day on the river and come back from Windsor at night by train.
"You look horribly tired. What what did you do last night?" She turned away from him. "I sat up reading then went to sleep down-stairs. I thought the coach had come to grief, and you were somewhere with the Alcots." "If I had known that," she murmured, "I might have gone to sleep. Oh, it was so horrible the little stuffy room, and the dirty blankets." She gave a shiver of disgust.
Then he went to bed and slept a little. But with the post next morning there was no letter from Kitty. There might be a hundred explanations of that. Yet he felt a sudden need of caution. "Her ladyship comes up this morning by train," he said to Wilson, as though reading from a note. "There seems to have been a mishap." Then he took a hansom and drove to the Alcots. "Is Mrs.
Something seemed to have gone wrong with the Alcots' coach, and they were somehow divided from all their party. I can't remember exactly what it was they said, but Mr. Cliffe was confident they would catch their train. Though my boy you remember my boy? they've just put him in the eight! thought they were running it rather fine."
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