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I had cast the inmates of the house and all around it into slumber, in order that none might witness her departure; had I not done so, I should have summoned others to my aid, in spite of your threat." "And would Lilian Ashleigh have passively accompanied you, to her own irretrievable disgrace?"
Vigors, or others in this neighbourhood, with whom I know that he corresponds. It will bring affairs to a crisis, and before it may be too late. I think it well that Ashleigh Sumner should leave that house; if he leave it for good, so much the better. And, perhaps, the sooner Lilian returns to L the lighter your own heart will be." "And for these reasons you have published the secret of "
"Mine, I fancy, are obvious enough," Lord Ashleigh interposed. "Superficially, I grant it," his brother acknowledged. "As a matter of scientific fact, I recognize the probability of your actually being a person utterly different from what you appear. Man becomes what he is according to the circumstances by which he is assailed. Now your life here, George, must be a singularly uneventful one."
I do hope! Let me know where you fix yourself. I will seize a holiday, I need one; I will arrange as to my patients; I will come to the same place; she need not know of it, but I must be by to watch, to hear your news of her. Heaven bless you for what you have said! I hope! I do hope!" Some days after, I received a few lines from Mrs. Ashleigh. Her arrangements for departure were made.
I speak thus openly and boldly to you now, because now I have not a sentiment that can interfere with the dispassionate soundness of my counsels. I repeat, you cannot now marry Lilian Ashleigh; I cannot take my daughter to visit her; I cannot destroy the social laws that I myself have set in my petty kingdom." "Be it as you will. I have pleaded for her while she is still Lilian Ashleigh.
To the mild Mrs. Ashleigh the magistrate's anger was more decidedly manifested. He ceased his visits; and in answer to a long and deprecatory letter with which she endeavoured to soften his resentment and win him back to the house, he replied by an elaborate combination of homily and satire.
All my thoughts were, however, diverted to channels of far deeper interest even than those in which my mind had of late been so tumultuously whirled along, when, on returning home, I found a note from Mrs. Ashleigh. She and Lilian had just come back to L , sooner than she had led me to anticipate. Lilian had not seemed quite well the last day or two, and had been anxious to return.
Quietly and gently I made my observations, addressed my questions, applied my stethoscope; and when I turned my face towards her mother's anxious, eager eyes, that face told my opinion; for her mother sprang forward, clasped my hand, and said, through her struggling tears, "You smile! You see nothing to fear?" "Fear! No, indeed! You will soon be again yourself, Miss Ashleigh, will you not?"
"I was in hopes, in great hopes," the Professor admitted, "that you might have heard something. I promised to call at Mrs. Rheinholdt's this afternoon." Quest shook his head. "There is nothing to report at present, Mr. Ashleigh," he announced. "Dear me," the Professor murmured, "this is very disappointing. Is there no clue, Mr. Quest no clue at all?" "Not the ghost of one," Quest acknowledged.
"I'd like to take this matter up right on the spot where Craig disappeared," he suggested. "Couldn't we do that?" "By all means," Lord Ashleigh agreed, touching a bell. "We have several hours before we change for dinner. I will have a car round and take you to the spot."
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