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"The news which I believe Lady Caroom is sending you to-day may perhaps convince you of the folly of this masquerading. I make you, therefore, the following offer. I will leave England for at least five years on condition that you henceforth take up your proper position in society, and consent to such arrangements as Mr. Ascough and I may make.
They had lunched with him twice in Medchester, and more often still the Enton barouche had been kept waiting at his office whilst Lady Caroom and Sybil descended upon him with invitations from Lord Arranmore. After his talk with Mr. Ascough he put the matter behind him, but it remained at times an inexplicable puzzle.
"Lord Arranmore is one of the most self-centred men I ever knew and the least impulsive. Why, therefore, he should go out of his way to do me a kindness I cannot understand." "If this is really an enigma to you," Mr. Ascough answered, "I cannot help you to solve it. Lord Arranmore has been the reverse of communicative to me. I am afraid you must fall back upon his lordship's eccentricity." Mr.
Ascough rose, but Brooks detained him. "You have plenty of time for your train," he said. "Will you forgive me if I go over a little old ground with you for the last time?" The lawyer resumed his seat. "I am in no hurry," he said, "if you think it worth while." "My father came to you when he was living at Stepney a stranger to you." "A complete stranger," Mr. Ascough agreed.
"He made over his small income then to my mother in trust for me. Did it strike you as strange that he should do this instead of making a will?" "Not particularly," Mr. Ascough declared. "As you know, it is not an unusual course." "It did not suggest to you any determination on his part never to return to England?" "Certainly not." "He left England on friendly terms with my mother?" "Certainly.
Ascough of your more reasonable frame of mind, and while personally I agree with you that we are better apart, you can always rely upon me if I can be of any service to you. "Yours sincerely, He read the letter through thoughtfully and folded it up. "I really don't see what the young fool can kick about in that," he said, throwing it into the basket. "Well, Hennibul, how are you?" Mr.
"The world seems to have grown more quixotic since I knew it better. I am almost afraid to ask you whether my last letter has yet received the favour of your consideration." Brooks flushed a little at the biting sarcasm in Arranmore's tone, but he restrained himself. "I have considered the matter fully," he said; "and I have talked it over with Mr. Ascough.
"You were rather fond of being on your feet!" he admitted. Lord Arranmore sighed regretfully. "And to think that I might have been Lord High Chancellor by now," he remarked. "Good-bye, Ascough." Later, at the reception of a Cabinet Minister, Lord Arranmore came across Hennibul talking with half-a-dozen other men. He detached himself at once. "This is odd," he remarked, with a whimsical smile.
Ascough with your desire to leave the new firm of Morrison and Brooks, and while I congratulate you very much upon the fact itself, I regret equally the course of reasoning which I presume led to your decision. You will probably have heard from Mr. Ascough by this time on a matter of business.
"I will send for Ascough to come down from town, and we must meet one day next week at Morrisons' office, and go into matters thoroughly. That reminds me. Busher, my head bailiff, will be in to see you this afternoon. There are half-a-dozen leases to be seen to at once, and everything had better come here until the arrangements are concluded."
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