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Updated: June 10, 2025
When Beddoes came back from consigning Kenneth into the hands of his trooper, he found Hogan seated in the leathern arm-chair, with Ashburn's letter spread before him on the table. "I was right in my suspicions, eh?" ventured Beddoes complacently. "You were more than right, Beddoes, you were Heaven-inspired.
Ashburn's face assumed its grimmest and coldest expression as she replied 'No, Solomon. Mark has chosen his own road we neither have nor expect to have any news of him. At this very moment he may be bitterly repenting his folly and disobedience somewhere. Upon which Cuthbert observed that he considered that extremely probable, and Mr. Ashburn found courage to ask a question.
Ashburn's, a retired business man, who had amassed a considerable fortune in the hardware trade. He was a widower and without children, and it was he who, fired with the ambition of placing a nephew in the Indian Civil Service as a rising monument to his uncle's perception, had sent Mark to the crammer's for Mr.
Ashburn's harsh tones carried a very genuine feeling and concern. She truly believed that the paths of fiction would lead to her son's spiritual as well as his material ruin, and Mark had sense enough to recognise the reality of this belief of hers, and drop the levity he had assumed for defensive purposes.
Vincent took the address down in his notebook and turned to go. 'Good day, said Mr. Fladgate, 'delighted to have been of any service to you by the way, I suppose you saw your friend's' but before he could allude to Mark Ashburn's marriage he found himself alone, Vincent having already taken a somewhat abrupt departure.
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