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"The truth is, I am on my way to visit some friends; and if Captain Bennydeck had got here in time to see me, I must have gone away to the junction to catch the next train westward, just as I am going now. I had only two words to say to the Captain about a person in whom he is interested and I can say them in this way." He wrote in pencil on one of his visiting cards, and laid it on the table.
Her residence at the sea-side, helped by the lapse of time, had restored to her personal attractions almost all they had lost under the deteriorating influences of care and grief; and her change of name must have protected her from a discovery of the Divorce which would have shocked a man so sincerely religious as Bennydeck. Had her beauty fascinated him?
From time to time long afterward, when we thought we had got the clew in our hands I continued my inquiries, still without success. A poor woman and her little family are so easily engulfed in the big city! The person from whom I got my information told me how you were employed, and where." "Oh, Captain Bennydeck, who could the person have been?" "A poor old broken-down actor, Sydney.
Kitty had something to say, and said it before he could speak. "Mamma, I want to go where the other children are going. Susan's gone to her supper. You take me." Her mother was not even listening. Kitty turned impatiently to Bennydeck. "Why won't mamma speak to me?" she asked. He quieted her by a word. "You shall go with me." His anxiety about Catherine was more than he could endure.
She was quite unable to rally her spirits, even with dear Captain Bennydeck present to encourage her. "'I am not receiving you as I ought, she said to him, when we began dinner, 'but there is perhaps some excuse for me. The prettiest answer that I ever heard was the answer that the Captain returned. 'Let the true friend, he said, 'take the place in your heart which the false friend has lost.
Looking round, she took up the railway guide and her knitting left on the table. Was there anything else left about? There was nothing to be seen. Mrs. Presty crossed the passage to her daughter's bedroom, to hurry the packing. Captain Bennydeck went downstairs, on his way back to the yacht. In the hall of the hotel he passed the lady and gentleman and, of course, noticed the lady.
Norman was dead, and if the beautiful mother of Kitty was an honest woman, her social position was beyond a doubt. Captain Bennydeck felt a little ashamed of his own impetuosity. "I beg your pardon, ma'am," he said; "the lady and gentleman who have taken these rooms have just arrived." Mrs. Presty got up in a hurry, and cordially shook hands with the Captain.
Captain Bennydeck was the first to speak again. That modest distrust of himself, which a man essentially noble and brave is generally the readiest of men to feel, seemed to be troubling him once more just as it had troubled him when he first found himself in Randal's presence. "I hope you won't think me vain," he resumed; "I seldom say so much about myself as I have said to you."
The prospect, as he saw it, disheartened him. As a means of employing his mind on a more agreeable subject for reflection, he opened his traveling desk and took out two or three letters. They had been addressed to him, while he was in America, by Captain Bennydeck. The captain had committed an error of which most of us have been guilty in our time.
Captain Bennydeck happened to be downstairs when he heard that we were obliged to go away, and that one of us was a lady in delicate health. This sweetest of men sent us word that we were welcome to take his rooms, and that he would sleep on board his yacht. Conduct worthy of Sir Charles Grandison himself.
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