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And then, as they stood there, a step between them, there came almost like the benediction of a cathedral bell the soft, low tinkling chime of the half-hour bell in Aldous' watch! It struck him like a blow. Every muscle in him became like rigid iron, and his torn hands clenched tightly at his sides.
"There were six hundred people upstairs, and four hundred coachmen and footmen downstairs, according to our man. Everybody said it was splendid." His piercing enigmatic gaze could not leave her. As he had often frankly warned her, he was a man in quest of sensations. Certainly, in this strange meeting with Aldous Raeburn's betrothed, in the midst of the sleep-bound house, he had found one.
"But it will be a bench of landlords," cried Marcella; "of men with whom a poacher is already condemned." "You are unjust to us, I think," said Aldous, slowly, after a pause, during which Mrs. Boyce left the room "to some of us, at any rate. Besides, as of course you know, the case will be simply sent on for trial at the assizes.
"And comparatively easy," said Aldous, "when you know that neither Socialism nor land-nationalisation will come in your time!" "Oh! so you think him altogether a windbag?" Aldous hesitated and laughed. "I have certainly no reason to suspect him of principles. His conscience as a boy was of pretty elastic stuff." "You may be unfair to him," said Hallin, quickly.
She did not let go of his hand until they entered the open space which Aldous had made in the spruce.
The next morning, when Aldous joined the engineer in the dining-room below, he was disappointed to find the breakfast table prepared for two instead of four. It was evident that Peggy Blackton and Joanne were not going to interrupt their beauty nap on their account. Blackton saw his friend's inquiring look, and chuckled. "Guess we'll have to get along without 'em this morning, old man.
An' she asked me how long it would take to walk there, an' I told her half an hour. An' she's going to the cavern, Johnny!" He was telescoping his long glass as he spoke, and while Aldous was still staring toward the gorge in wonderment and a little fear, he added: "We'd better follow. Quade an' Rann can't get here inside o' two or three hours, an' we'll be back before then."
Another practically sleepless night, peopled with images of horror, had decreased her stock of sane self-control, already lessened by long conflict of feeling and the pressure of self-contempt. Now, as she lay listening for Aldous Raeburn's ring and step, she hardly knew whether to be angry with him for coming so late, or miserable that he should come at all.
But, after the first evening with him, Betty had made them in profusion, without the smallest demur, though perfectly well aware of her mother's ambitions. There was a tie of cousinship between them, and a considerable difference of age. Betty had decided at once that a mother was a dear old goose, and that great friends she and Aldous Raeburn should be and, in a sense, great friends they were.
And won't you let me remind you that we're getting a long way from what I want to know about your trip into the North?" "That's just it: we're hot on the trail," chuckled Aldous, deliberately placing her hand on his arm again. "You don't care for riches. Neither do I. I'm delighted to know we're going tandem in that respect. I've never had any fun with money. It's the money that's had fun with me.
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