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"Here I am, as you say, Holmes," he answered, quite coolly and unconcernedly. "But where are you bound for, and what's the excitement, anyway?" "Why, I thought I'd see if I could meet you. Hazon said you had gone down to Booyseus this morning. What do you think? I've got round him, and I'm going with you." Laurence stared, then looked grave. "Going with us, eh?
On reaching Booyseus he was so fortunate as to find Lilith not only at home but alone. Her face lighted up at the sight of him. "How sweet of you to toil out here this hot afternoon," she said, as he took within his the two hands she had instinctively held out to him.
"You know it is not," she answered. "Now, I won't be a minute." She was as good as her word, for she reappeared almost immediately with a hat and sunshade, and they set forth, striking out over the bare open veldt which extended around and behind the Booyseus estate.
So having already, with Rainsford or Wheeler, and seven other spirits more wicked than themselves, gone the round three or four times, just to see what there was to be seen, and found that not much, he had subsided into a good bit of a stay-at-home. A pipe, a newspaper or book, and bed, would be his evening program normally, that is; for now and then he would stroll out to Booyseus.
This idiot, we were going to say, looked back upon that deadly, monotonous, starved, dusty, flea-bitten coach-ride of three days and two nights as a species of Elysium, and in the result was perennially importuning Laurence to take a stroll down to Booyseus, "Just for a constitutional, you know." And the latter would laugh, and good-naturedly acquiesce.
He sought out Rainsford, who, having stable-room, willingly consented to put up his steed, and, being a discreet fellow, was not likely to indulge in undue tongue-wagging. Then he took his way down to Booyseus. As he stepped forth through the gloom for by this time it was quite dark the words of that missive seemed burned into his brain in characters of fire and of gold. What words they were, too!
It is nothing of a walk out to Booyseus, and besides, there are several omnibuses in the course of the day. Mind you come too, Mr. Holmes. Good-bye." And the four resumed their way, and so did our two. "Jolly, genial old party that Mrs. Falkner," pronounced Holmes, half turning, slyly, to sneak a last glance after the blue-eyed and receding Mabel.
In the afternoon he took his way down to Booyseus. Would he find Lilith in? It was almost too much good luck to hope to find her alone. As he walked, he was filled with a strange elation. The dull pain of a very near parting was largely counteracted by the manner of it.
"You know I will, if I may," she answered, stealing a hand into his for a sympathetic pressure, as they walked side by side. They had been walking at a good pace over the open, treeless veldt, and the roofs of Booyseus were now quite dwarfed behind them. "But, tell me," she continued, "are things any better?
You had landed already, I think. From your description I recognize them. So they are up here? Where are they staying?" "At that outlying place where the coach first begins to get among houses. I can't remember the name. There's a biggish pub, you know, and a lot of houses." "Booyseus?" "That was it; Booyseus. They asked me to go and see them. You'd better come along too, Stanninghame.
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