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Five minutes after he had withdrawn, a messenger delivered a letter for Lord Loring, in which Father Benwell's interests were directly involved. The letter was from Romayne; it contained his excuses for breaking his engagement, literally at an hour's notice.
Some men, having Father Benwell's object in view, would have taken instant advantage of the opening offered to them by Romayne's unguarded enthusiasm. The illustrious Jesuit held fast by the wise maxim which forbade him to do anything in a hurry. "No," he said, "your life must not be the life of our dear friend. The service on which the Church employs Penrose is not the fit service for you.
That was the question in Father Benwell's mind, while he put some of the books away on the shelves, and collected the scattered papers on the table, relating to his correspondence with Rome. It had become a habit of his life to be suspicious of any circumstances occurring within his range of observation, for which he was unable to account.
ON the tenth morning, dating from the dispatch of Father Benwell's last letter to Rome, Penrose was writing in the study at Ten Acres Lodge, while Romayne sat at the other end of the room, looking listlessly at a blank sheet of paper, with the pen lying idle beside it. On a sudden he rose, and, snatching up paper and pen, threw them irritably into the fire.
The separation of Romayne from his wife, and the alteration of his will in favor of the Church, seem to be now merely questions of time. A FORTNIGHT after Father Benwell's discovery, Stella followed her husband one morning into his study. "Have you heard from Mr. Penrose?" she inquired. "Yes. He will be here to-morrow." "To make a long visit?" "I hope so. The longer the better."
I have good reason for believing that you are entirely mistaken in your estimate of Father Benwell's character. But I know, by sad experience, how you hold to your opinions when they are once formed; and I am eager to relieve you of all anxiety, so far as I am concerned.
Forgive me, if I say no more for the present. I prefer to be silent, until my audacity is justified by events. * Father Benwell's experience had, in this case, not misled him. If Stella had remained unmarried, Winterfield might have justified himself.
He filled the glasses; he offered more biscuits. he was really, and even perceptibly, agitated by the victory that he had won. But one last necessity now confronted him the necessity of placing a serious obstacle in the way of any future change of purpose on the part of Romayne. As to the choice of that obstacle, Father Benwell's mind had been made up for some time past.
"I once made the same remark myself to Lady Loring," she said. Father Benwell's pulse began to quicken its beat. "Yes?" he murmured, in tones of the gentlest encouragement. "And her ladyship," Miss Notman proceeded, "did not encourage me to go on.
Penrose answered firmly. "In Father Benwell's position it might have been his doing, but for his goodness to me. For the first time since I have known him he has shrunk from a responsibility. For my sake he has left it to Rome. And Rome has spoken. Oh, my more than friend my brother in love !" His voice failed him.
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