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I heard the rattle of a rope upon her deck. Silas Bolitho was up in an instant, and we all stood straining our ears, and peering through the dense fog-bank.
Bolitho herself had had a very recent example in her own family of "possession." There had been her old grandfather, living in the farm with them, as hale and hearty a human of sixty-five years as you'd be likely to find in a day's march through Glebeshire. "He lost touch with them," as Mrs. Bolitho put it.
Bolitho was as naturally inquisitive as are most of her sex, and this knowledge that Martin was a doomed creature with a guilty conscience vastly excited her curiosity. What had the man done? What had been his relations with Maggie? Above all, did he really care for Maggie, or no? That was finally the question that was most eagerly discussed in the depths of the Bolitho bedchamber.
"Well, I'll go," he said slowly. "Best take William, though." He went off in search of his man. But Bolitho need not trouble. Half an hour later Maggie returned, stood in the sitting-room looking about her, took off her jacket and hat, then, pursuing her own thoughts, slowly put them on. She was then about to leave the room when the door burst open and Martin tumbled in.
Bolitho who had had the farm in her day. She wrote to her, and two days later received a letter saying that there was room for them at Borhedden if they wished. She was now all feverish impatience. Dr. Abrams said that Martin could be moved if they were very careful. All plans were made. Mrs.
She showed him that it had been her own determination and absolute resolve that had created the situation and she told him that she was happy for the first time in her life. But his letter did force her to realise the difficulties of her position. In writing to Mrs. Bolitho she had spoken of herself as Martin's wife, and now when she was called "Mrs.
Go to bed when you've got things shipshape; I shall go alone; only about four hundred miles this time." "You really mean it, then?" said Barracombe. "Decidedly. If you knew Captain Bolitho you would see that there's no help for it." "Well, then, the sooner you eat your supper and get between the sheets the better. I'll tuck you up." "Tuck in and tuck up. Very well."
She was not sentimental to him, not sighing nor groaning, nor pestering him to answer romantic questions. On the contrary, she was always cheerful, practical, and full of common sense, although she was sometimes forgetful, and was not so neat and tidy as Mrs. Bolitho would have wished. She always spoke as though Martin's recovery were quite certain, and Dr. Stephens told Mrs.
"He doesn't want her to know it," she said. "Why shouldn't he?" asked James. "Now you're asking," said Mrs. Bolitho. "Nice kind of courtin' that be," said James; "good thing you was a bit different, missus. Lovin' a lass and not speaking shouldn't like!" Mrs. Bolitho's heart grew very tender towards Maggie. Married or not, the child was in a "fiery passion of love."
Bolitho looked at her oddly when she gave it to her. Martin's illness, too, seemed to disturb the household. He cried out in his dreams, his shouts waking the whole establishment. Bolitho, once, thinking that murder was being committed, went to his room, found him sitting up in bed, sweating with terror.
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