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"In my heart," she went on slowly, "I know that my father is wrong and that Colonel Ray is right. He has simply done his duty. Blenavon was being sorely tempted. He is better away out of the country. Oh, I am sure of that." "Colonel Ray has done what he believed to be his duty," I said slowly. "It is hard that he should suffer for that."
"Do you know if Lord Blenavon is here?" "Yes, sir," the girl answered promptly. "He was brought in last night rather badly hurt, but he is much better this morning. I will let Mrs. Smith-Lessing know that you are here, sir." She hurried out, with the rustle of stiff starch and the quick light-footedness of the well-trained servant. Ray and I exchanged glances.
"I am not going to take you any farther," she declared, "especially as you are coming up to-night. Eight o'clock, remember. Go and salve your conscience with some work." I protested, but she was firm. So I stood by the gate and watched her slim young figure disappear in the gathering shadows. I dined that night at Rowchester. Lord Blenavon was sulky, and Lady Angela was only fitfully gay.
"Selfishness, you know, is the permitted vice of the young and of lovers." "Blenavon can scarcely rank amongst the other people with me," she said. "He is my only brother." "Colonel Ray is to be your husband," I reminded her, "which is far more important." She turned upon me with flaming cheeks. "You do not understand what you are talking about, Mr. Ducaine," she said, stiffly.
"I have told my father," she said, "all that I know." "Then I must discover the rest for myself," the Duke replied. "I know that Blenavon is uncertain and unstable to a degree. When I heard that he had left for the Continent, I was not particularly surprised or interested. I have only just discovered the manner of his leaving. It puts an entirely different complexion upon the affair.
What followed?" "Colonel Ray was very forcible and very imperative, sir," I answered. "He insisted upon Lord Blenavon leaving England at once." "Well?" "Lord Blenavon consented to do so, sir," I said quietly. I saw the veins in the Duke's forehead stand out like whipcord. He began a sentence and left it unfinished. He was in that condition when words are impotent. "Can you tell me, Mr.
"A front door which does not boast a knocker or a bell must expect to be taken liberties with. But it is a great surprise to see you here. I had no idea that any one was at Rowchester, or expected there, except Lord Blenavon. Has the Duke returned?" She shook her head. "I came down alone," she answered. "I found London dull.
I caught a glimpse of her face as they flashed by, and it puzzled me. Her hair was almost straw coloured, her complexion was negative, her features were certainly not good. Yet there was something about her attractive, something which set me guessing at once as to the colour of her eyes, the quality of her voice, if she should speak. Blenavon reined in his horse.
I am waiting for you to give me a lesson at billiards." I crossed the hall to her side. "I thought that as Lord Blenavon had gone out " She shrugged her shoulders. "That you would evade your duty, which is clearly to stay and entertain your hostess." She closed the door and glanced at me curiously. "What has happened to you?" she asked. "You look as though you had been with ghosts."
Doesn't that strike you as singular?" "Is it," I asked calmly, "a genuine case?" Lord Blenavon nodded. "I do not think that it is a secret," he said, helping himself to wine and passing the decanter. "She has made up her mind at last to marry Mostyn Ray. The affair has been hanging about for more than a year. In fact, I think that there was something said about it before Ray went abroad.
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