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He appeared at seven o'clock one evening, just as the sisters were sitting down to their high tea, which meal they had substituted for the orthodox dinner to which they had been accustomed in London. Clare's cheeks grew pale as she greeted him. 'How long have you? she asked, a little breathlessly. 'Till eight o'clock to-morrow morning. I must catch the 8.30 train from Brambleton.
This was a great convenience as well as pleasure to them, and when Clare had a fit of the blues, she would go off to Brambleton and do some shopping, and return quite interested and eager to tell all she had seen and heard. She met Miss Villars on one of her expeditions, and she asked her to go and have a cup of tea with her before she returned home. This Clare willingly did.
'Miss Dane, what is the meaning of this? No; I cannot stay to sit down. I'm off to a committee meeting in Brambleton, for the "Friendly Girls." The pony cart is waiting at the top of the lane. I have just met Major Lester. He is terribly put out by his visit here.
I think they had walked from Brambleton station taken the short cut through the woods. They looked as if they had roughed it. So weather-beaten and worn! 'This is an excitement, Agatha said, turning round from her writing; 'what is Alick Lester like, Elfie? 'Oh, I didn't notice, I hadn't time. They were both tall, broad-shouldered men in rough shooting clothes, I think.
The train steamed out of the station, and Clement Arkwright turned away with a grave, thoughtful face. 'Poor Gwen! Yet it will be the making of her, if she can once be got to confess that her judgment is not infallible. I should like to get hold of that scoundrel! It was about five o'clock when Gwen reached Brambleton.
'Perhaps it is a clue to the mystery, said Clare, with shining eyes; 'I am dying to know what this cupboard contains. Mrs. Tucker said she never saw it opened the whole time she was here; but Mr. Lester told her once that he prized this cupboard more than anything else in the house. She thinks, foolish woman, that it is full of gold! I only hope she won't spread that notion about Brambleton.
The big houses round here won't be desirous of the acquaintance of four unknown females with a very small income. 'I always thought, said Elfie, 'that country villages contained a clergyman and family, a doctor, and a squire. Isn't that the case here? 'No; this is a kind of suburb of Brambleton. There is a vicarage, but I don't know anything about the clergyman.
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