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"I think the gamekeeper has told the truth," he said. "It's pretty plain, thanks to the soft ground hereabout, notwithstanding the policemen's boots. Here they came together the thorn-twig sticks to the shoe still, you see and here they stopped. The marks face about, and Bowmore's steps are retraced to the corner of the wood.
THERE WAS a more serious reason than Bervie was aware of, at the time, for the warning which he had thought it his duty to address to Percy Linwood. The new footman who had entered Mr. Bowmore's service was a Spy. Well practiced in the infamous vocation that he followed, the wretch had been chosen by the Department of Secret Service at the Home Office, to watch the proceedings of Mr.
In the meantime, refuse to accept Mr. Bowmore's assistance in the matter of your claim on Parliament; and, above all things, stop him at the outset, when he tries to steal his way into your intimacy. I need not caution you to say nothing against him to his wife and daughter. His wily tongue has long since deluded them. Don't let him delude you!
"I told you when we met just now at Mr. Bowmore's cottage that I had something to say to you; and I have not yet said it. The truth is, I don't feel sure whether I have been long enough your friend to take the liberty of advising you." "Whatever your advice is," Percy answered, "trust me to take it kindly on my side." Thus encouraged, the Captain spoke out.
"Not by my wish, Heaven knows!" persisted the cook. "Leave the room!" said Mrs. Bowmore. Even her patience had given way at last. The cook looked as if she declined to believe her own ears. Mrs. Bowmore pointed to the door. The cook said "Oh?" accenting it as a question. Mrs. Bowmore's finger still pointed. The cook, in solemn silence, yielded to circumstances, and banged the door.
"Here is the right foot, plain enough," he said, carefully fitting the shoe he had brought in the mark. "He alighted on that as he came over the gate. Half over it is another footmark Bowmore's, I expect, for I can see signs of others, in both directions going and coming. But we shall know better presently." He rose, and we followed the irregular track across the meadow.
He will leave no effort untried to reach that end; and, if he gets you into political difficulties, he will desert you without scruple." Percy made a last effort to take Mr. Bowmore's part for the one irresistible reason that he was Charlotte's father. "Pray don't think I am unworthy of your kind interest in my welfare," he pleaded.
Don't be afraid, mamma! I know what I am about, and I know I am right." "Going to Justice Bervie's!" cried Mrs. Bowmore, in the utmost extremity of astonishment. "What will your father say, what will Percy think, when they come back from the Club?" "My sister's carriage is waiting for me close by," Bervie answered. "It is entirely at Miss Bowmore's disposal.
Percy and Charlotte were walking together in the little garden at the back of Mr. Bowmore's cottage, near the town of Dartford, in Kent. "Mr. Linwood," said the young lady, "you were to have paid us your first visit the day after the ball. Why have you kept us waiting? Have you been too busy to remember your new friends?" "I have counted the hours since we parted, Miss Charlotte.
A man of a suspicious turn of mind might have discovered, in those artless words, the secret of Mr. Bowmore's interest in the success of his young friend's claim on the Government. But honest Percy Linwood was not a man of a suspicious turn of mind.
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