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The butler remained on sufferance because of his grey hairs, but the footmen, who had been rather a feature of the Anselman establishment, had departed, and their places had been filled by half a dozen of the smartest of parlourmaids, one or two of whom were still in evidence. "Yours is certainly one of the most patriotic households, Sir Alfred, which I have entered," he declared.
It was a very cheerful little party dining that night at the Dormy House Club. There was Granet; Geoffrey Anselman, his cousin, who played for Cambridge and rowed two; Major Harrison, whose leave had been extended another three weeks; and the secretary of the club, who made up the quartette. "By-the-bye, where were you this afternoon, Captain Granet?" the latter asked.
We have put no one upon it who is not far and away above all suspicion. I am given to understand that a letter addressed to Sir Alfred Anselman was opened yesterday. I went to see your Chief about it this morning. He has referred me to you." "The letter," Thomson remarked, "was opened by my orders." "I happened," Mr.
"Thomson," he continued, "I know that you are not a sensationalist. At the same time, this request of yours is a little nerve-shattering, isn't it? Sir Alfred Anselman has been the Chancellor's right-hand man. It was mainly owing to his efforts that the war loan was such a success. He has done more for us in the city than any other Englishman.
"Come and have a drink first, at any rate," Geoffrey Anselman insisted. The orderly shook his head, the two soldiers were barring the gateway. "Some one from the War Office has arrived and is waiting to speak to Captain Granet," he announced. "We're all coming over after lunch," young Anselman protested. "Wouldn't that do?" The man made no answer.
"Granet!" he said to himself thoughtfully, "Do I know any of his people, I wonder?" "You know some of his connections, of course," Mrs. Cunningham replied briskly. "Sir Alfred Anselman, for instance, his uncle." "His father and mother?" "They are both dead. There is a large family place in Warwickshire, and a chateau, just now, I am afraid, in the hands of the Germans.
"Why is Miss Conyers here without a chaperon?" he asked. "And why did she go away with Thomson?" Lady Anselman laughed. "Didn't she tell you?" "Tell me what?" he insisted eagerly. Lady Anselman looked at her nephew curiously. "Evidently," she remarked, "your progress with the young lady was not so rapid as it seemed, or she would have told you her secret which, by-the-bye, isn't a secret at all.
"Look here," he said, with an attempt at good-humour, "you can at least abandon the official attitude for a moment with me. Tell me why, of all men in the world, you have chosen to suspect Sir Alfred Anselman?"
We took him direct from the hospital." "I hope the poor fellow will soon recover," Lady Anselman declared. "Please do not think anything more of the affair so far as we are concerned. You must let me know later on how he is." The maitre d'hotel retreated with a little bow. Geraldine turned to Captain Granet. "I think," she said, "that you must be very kind-hearted, for a soldier."
"We are so little in London, Lady Anselman," she murmured. "You know how difficult father is, and just now he is worse than ever. In fact, if he weren't so hard at work I don't believe he'd have let me come even now." "These scientific men," Lady Anselman declared, "are great boons to the country, but as parent I am afraid they are just a little thoughtless.
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