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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Unhappily their only child is ill " Captain Bennydeck started to his feet. "I am ashamed of having intruded on you," he began. His new friend pressed him back into his chair without ceremony. "On the contrary, you have arrived at the best of all possible times the time when our suspense is at an end. The doctor has just told us that his poor little patient is out of danger.
Looking round to see that he was out of the way, Mrs. Presty rushed forward tore open the door in terror of what might happen and admitted Captain Bennydeck. The Captain's attention was first attracted by the visitor whom he found in the room. He bowed to the stranger; but the first impression produced on him did not appear to have been of the favorable kind, when he turned next to Mrs. Presty.
"Am I to congratulate you?" he asked. "Congratulate me on having discovered Roderick Westerfield's daughter." That reply, and the tone in which it was given, led Randal to ask if the engagement had been prematurely announced. "There is no engagement at all," Bennydeck answered, with a look which suggested that it might be wise not to dwell on the subject.
She took a letter from her bosom; and, showing it, begged him to remark that it was not closed. "I was in my bedroom writing," she said, "When my mother came to me and told me that you and Captain Bennydeck had met in my sitting-room.
On second thoughts, however, he had returned, in the hope "In the hope," Herbert interposed, "of seeing Mrs. Presty's daughter?" "That was one of my motives," Bennydeck answered. "Is it indiscreet to inquire what the other motive was?" "Not at all. I heard a stranger's voice, speaking in a tone which, to say the least of it, is not customary in a lady's room and I thought "
One of those copies lay on the chimney-piece in Catherine's room. Bennydeck brought it to her, and placed it on the table near which she was sitting. He turned to the New Testament, and opened it at the Gospel of Saint Matthew. With his hand on the page, he said: "I have done my best rightly to understand the duties of a Christian.
"Pray let me take you back to the house," he said. "I am afraid you are not well." "I shall be better directly. Do me a kindness take the child!" She spoke faintly and vacantly. Bennydeck hesitated. She lifted her trembling hands in entreaty. "I beg you will leave me!" Her voice, her manner, made it impossible to disobey. He turned resignedly to Kitty and asked which way she wanted to go.
The man turned again to the person who had so strongly interested him. The person was gone. In fear of being followed, Sydney hurried to the railway station. By the light in the carriage she looked for the first time at the fragment of the letter and the card. The stranger had presented her with her own address! And, when she looked at the card, the name was Bennydeck!
He read the paragraph in which it appeared. "The charming widow, Mrs. Norman, is, we hear, among the distinguished guests staying at Buck's Hotel. It is whispered that the lady is to be shortly united to a retired naval officer of Arctic fame; now better known, perhaps, as one of our leading philanthropists." The allusion to Bennydeck was too plain to be mistaken.
Kitty had heard the name mentioned in connection with a yacht. Like all children, she knew a friend the moment she looked at him. "I've seen your pretty boat, sir," she said, crossing the room to Captain Bennydeck. "Is it very nice when you go sailing?" "If you were not going back to London, my dear, I should ask your mamma to let me take you sailing with me.
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