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"It's solid rock, clean through. It would take him a hundred years to burrow a hole like that." "You know nothing of engineering and its tools. We now have electric drills that will eat into granite like cheese," condescendingly explained Ashton. "Think I don't know that? But just you try to figure out how he's going to get his electricity for his drills," retorted Gowan.
Ashton bowed rather stiffly, put his hat down, and Jabez shut them in. "Is there any service you require of me?" inquired the Rector, coldly. It was the impulsive Val Elster of old days who answered; his hand held out pleadingly, his ingenuous soul shining forth from his blue eyes. "Yes, there is, Doctor Ashton; I have come to pray for it your forgiveness."
Hardly had Miss Ashton dropt the pen, when the door of the apartment flew open, and the Master of Ravenswood, entered the apartment. Lockhart and another domestic, who had in vain attempted to oppose his passage through the gallery or antechamber, were seen standing on the threshhold transfixt with surprize, which was instantly communicated to the whole party in the stateroom.
You have gotten up out of your bed and wandered into Polly's and my room. And you have frightened us nearly to death! Dear me, you have not walked in your sleep for years, have you?" At Betty's first words following the stream of light, Mrs. Ashton had opened her eyes with returning consciousness until now she appeared almost entirely wide awake.
"She's been at home waiting for you. She thinks you have deserted her and your baby. I tell you she loves you, you fool, she LOVES you!" The fingers on his throat suddenly relaxed; the flaming eyes of Ashton, glaring into his, wavered and grew wide with amazement. "Loves me," he whispered. "WHO loves me?" "Your wife," protested Ford; "the girl at the Savoy, your wife."
"You had no business to come down on the track." "We might have gotten our biplane off the track, if you had halted the train," returned Dick. "We could have dragged it into the bushes." "I don't know about that." As soon as the train rolled into Ashton the bays alighted. The only other passenger to get off was one of the local storekeepers. "You were lucky boys," said the man, pleasantly.
"Nonsense, Arthur, don't be so absurd," said Lady Ashton tartly. "Indeed my dear Aunt, as I persuaded her to come I positively could not have her treated so unceremoniously," he replied. "Here Thomson," he called to the man who was about to take Archer to the stable, and the next moment he had handed the mistified Louisa into the chaise, leaving the astonished Lady Ashton crimson with rage.
It was just after he had entered into business on his own responsibility that he became acquainted with Ashton. At that time he was simply looked upon as a rather fast young man, who would take a glass with a friend, and, as the boys would say, "just once in a while get a little 'O be joyful!" But among this class he passed as a "Jolly good fellow!"
"Well, I guess I might almost say so, for it is reported he has used up all the capital which was left him by his father and has drawn heavily on his wife's means. From what I hear, I would conclude he has but a few hundred pounds left to take him to America. I pity his wife. She was a charming girl, so beautiful, so clever, and yet so modest. Many a man envied Ashton his prize.
"You never knew that man's name?" continued Viner. "Nor who he was? Just so so I gathered. Then I'll tell you. There was a good reason why he had not been to that tavern for some nights. He was John Ashton, the man who was murdered in Lonsdale Passage!"
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