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You must excuse my ignorance." "No, it is not ignorance," Miss Brande demurred. "You have been away so much. You have hardly been in England, you told me, for years, and " "And progress has been marching in my absence," I interrupted.
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That was the whole interview on which so much depended. After this I did not speak to Brande on any subject but that of his symptoms, and before long he was able to come on deck. The month I spoke of as the duration of his illness was an intentional exaggeration on my part. Rockingham was forgotten with a suddenness and completeness that was almost ghastly.
He must still cling to the thought that your purpose may fail, and he expects to escape on horseback from the fate of the earth. Reason with him yet a little further." "There is no time to reason," I interrupted. "The horses are ready. "Surely you have not lost your reason? Have you forgotten the drop of water in the English Channel?" Brande said quietly.
I postponed my breakfast for want of appetite, and, as Brande's house was the best example of Liberty Hall I had ever met with, I offered no apology for my absence during the entire day when I rejoined my host and hostess in the evening. The interval I spent in the woods, thinking much and deciding nothing. After dinner, Brande introduced me to a man whom he called Edward Grey.
Brande and Grey were nothing better than clever tricksters, the park gate was far enough, and the nearest policeman force enough, to save me from their vengeance. But the girl Natalie! She was clairvoyante. They practised upon her. My diagnosis of the strange seeing-without-sight expression of her eyes was then correct.
"And I made it up this evening," I said, a little less aggressively, "that I would join it if the devil himself were already in it, as I half suspect he is." "I like that," Brande said gravely. "That is the spirit I want in the man who joins me." To which I replied: "What under the sun is the object of this Society of yours?"
It would have been pleasanter on the upper deck, owing to the heat, but the speaker could not then have been easily heard in the noise of the wind and waves. I could scarcely believe that it was Brande who arose to speak, so changed was his expression. The frank scepticism, which had only recently degenerated into a cynicism, still tempered with a half kindly air of easy superiority, was gone.
I approached leisurely, for it struck me that the boy would have shown better breeding if he had come toward me, considering my seniority. "I am sorry I did not notice you sooner. Why did you not come on when you saw us?" the smallest and slimmest youth called to me. "In the name of Miss Miss " I stammered. "Brande; you haven't forgotten my name, I hope," Natalie Brande said coolly.
I knew beforehand who the sender was, and what the drift of the message would be. I was right. It was from Brande. "I beg you to be more cautious. Your discussion with Miss M. this evening might have been disastrous. I thought all was over at nine o'clock. I sat down stupefied. When my senses returned, I looked at the table where I had thrown the telegram. It was not there, nor in the room.
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