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When I went downstairs to thank him, he was gone and here we have been for nearly three weeks; sometimes seeing the Captain's yacht, but, to our great surprise, never seeing the Captain himself." "There's nothing to be surprised at, Mrs. Presty. Captain Bennydeck likes doing kind things, and hates being thanked for it. I expected him to meet me here to-day." Catherine went to the window.
"He was bent on mischief when I saw him last. Has he told Bennydeck of the Divorce?" "No." "Thank Heaven for that! There is no one to be afraid of now. Where is the Captain?" "He is still in the sitting-room." "Why don't you go to him?" "I daren't!" "Shall I go?" "Yes and give him this." Mrs. Presty took the letter. "You mean, tear it up," she said, "and quite right, too."
Not having heard from Captain Bennydeck for some little time, Randal thought it desirable in Sydney's interests to make inquiries at his club. Nothing was known of the Captain's movements there. On the chance of getting the information that he wanted, Randal wrote to the hotel at Sandyseal. The landlord's reply a little surprised him. Some days since, the yacht had again appeared in the bay.
Presty waited in the garden to be joined by her daughter and Captain Bennydeck, and waited in vain. It was past her grandchild's bedtime; she decided on returning to the house. "Suppose we look for them in the sitting-room?" Kitty proposed. "Suppose we wait a moment, before we go in?" her wise grandmother advised. "If I hear them talking I shall take you upstairs to bed." "Why?" Mrs.
"When you next see your friend, Captain Bennydeck, give him my compliments, Mr. Randal, and say I congratulate him on having been jilted by my daughter. It would have been a sad thing, indeed, if such a sensible man had married an idiot. Good-morning." She left the room again, and came back again for another last word, addressed on this occasion to me.
Bennydeck answered with the assumed air of importance which was in itself a compliment to Sydney: "You find me engaged on the business of the Home with my new secretary." Randal at once understood what had happened. He took his friend's arm, and led him to the other end of the room. "You good fellow!" he said. "Add to your kindness by excusing me if I ask for a word with you in private."
"I have seen my friend Sarrazin," Randal began, "and I have persuaded him to trust me with Catherine's present address. I can send Herbert there immediately, if you will only help me." "How can I help you?" "Will you allow me to tell my brother that your engagement is broken off?" Bennydeck shrank from the painful allusion, and showed it. Randal explained.
"No; I mean what I say." "My dear child, if you have any regard for yourself, if you have any regard for me, don't ask me to give Bennydeck this mad letter! You won't hear reason? You still insist on it?" "I do." "If Kitty ever behaves to you, Catherine, as you have behaved to me you will have richly deserved it. Oh, if you were only a child again, I'd beat it out of you I would!"
Malcolm produced the card, and instantly received instructions to show the gentleman up. The name recalled the dinner at the London club Captain Bennydeck. The fair complexion of the Captain's youthful days had been darkened by exposure to hard weather and extreme climates.
The same keen sense of the family disgrace, which had led him to conceal from Captain Bennydeck his brother's illicit relations with Sydney Westerfield, had compelled him to keep secret his former association, as brother-in-law, with the divorced wife. Her change of name had hitherto protected her from discovery by the Captain, and would in all probability continue to protect her in the future.
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