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A bit of blood may do very well for young gentlemen, but to go and put a gentleman of Mr. Barradine's years " "Mind you," interposed a Roebuck stableman, "Mr. Barradine liked 'em gay. Mr. Barradine was a horseman!" Mr. Barradine liked gay horses. Mr. Barradine was a horseman. That tremendous sound of the past tense answered the question that Mavis was breathlessly waiting to ask.
She told Mary to bring the candles, and to run out and buy a night-light. Then Mary helped her to undress and to get to bed; and she slept dreamlessly. The feeling after all was one of unutterable relief. Mr. Barradine was! Never again would her flesh shrink at the sight of him; never again could those lascivious hands touch her.
This was the monument of that good kind man, the late Mr. Barradine. Every red tile, every dab of white paint, every square inch of clean gravel, gave substance and solidity to the lasting fame of that dear sweet gentleman.
The old devil would have no suspicions. Then a cold shiver ran down his spine. It was a thought rising from the depths, warning him, terrifying him. The note would remain afterward. If Mr. Barradine did not destroy it and very likely he would not do so the note would be found afterward. But after what? He tore up the note, tore it into tiny pieces.
Barradine and restored her husband's love, which, last of all, had removed Aunt Petherick from North Ride and sent her to live at the seaside. A small thing, this, perhaps; and yet a Providential boon, a filling of one's lap with bounties. There would have been great awkwardness in having Aunt so near, but forbidden to darken one's door.
Barradine got home to the Abbey. "Meet me in the West Gate copse. I want to show my gratitude" or "I want to thank you again" something of that sort. "Meet me at the end of North Ride by the Heronry. I will be there if possible four o'clock to-morrow. If not there to-morrow, I will be there next day. Mavis." He wrote such a letter, in a hand sufficiently like his wife's. Yes, that would fetch him.
It implied that he meant to go on much as usual. He would come back, and be postmaster as in the past. But what would he do with her? Would he go for a divorce? Publish her shame? Perhaps, even if he were willing to spare her, he would not forego the chance of dragging down Mr. Barradine.
And he thought of what lay on the far side of this long grass rampart of down country the fat-soiled valley, the other railway line, the trains from the West of England, full of queer people, running by night as well as by day. As he passed the Barradine Arms, he saw three louts leaning against a dry bit of wall under the eaves of an outhouse.
Barradine laughed. They all laughed. "Our member we agree in politics; but, well, you know, he and I do not altogether hit it off. We are both of us getting older than we were and perhaps we both suffer from swollen head. It's the prevailing malady of the period." Sir John laughed gaily. "I don't think you show any marked symptoms of it. But I can't answer for what's-his-name." "Well;" and Mr.
He would not go away, when the other callers had departed. He told the butler of the services rendered to him by Mr. Barradine. "Not more'n ten days ago." "Don't you remember me? I came here to thank him for his kindness." "Ah, yes," said the agitated butler, "he was a kind gentleman, and no mistake." "Kind! I should think he was. Well, well!" And Dale stood nodding his head dolefully.
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