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'Now listen to me, Dolly, said Mark. 'If all you are afraid of is being sent to prison, you needn't think any more about it. You can trust me, can't you? You know I wouldn't deceive you. Well, I tell you that you can't have done anything that you would be sent to prison for that's all nonsense. Do you understand? Harold Caffyn said that to frighten you.
When Caffyn had had enough of the huntsmen he returned to the sitting-room, and was disgusted to find that Holroyd had retired and left the Review. 'I shall hear all about it to-morrow, he said to himself; 'and if he knows nothing I shall have to enlighten him myself!
Still 'Illusion' had revealed a nature the nobility of which no weaknesses could obscure, and if his daily life did not quite bear out such indications, he was Mark Ashburn, and she loved him. Nothing could alter that. Some weeks later Vincent returned from Italy, and one of the first persons he met was Harold Caffyn.
Caffyn gave a searching look at Mabel's sweet, tranquil face, then at Mark's, which bore no sign of guilt or confusion. 'Knocked up against you! he repeated; 'why why, didn't he expect to find you there, then? Mabel answered this: 'It was quite an accident that he stopped at Laufingen at all, she said; 'he was going on to Italy.
'I've met him once, said Caffyn, and his brows contracted. 'Wrote this new book, "Illusion," didn't he? 'Yes, he did confound him! said the other warmly, and then launched into the history of his wrongs. 'Perhaps I oughtn't to say it at my age, he concluded, 'but I hate that fellow! 'Do you though? said Caffyn with a laugh; 'it's a singular coincidence, but so do I.
No, Dolly, if anyone but you and I catches sight of that letter, it will all be found out must be! 'Do you mean? oh, no, Harold, I couldn't burn it! There was a fire in the grate, for the morning, in spite of the season, had been chilly. 'Don't suppose I advise you to burn it, said Caffyn. Only there's no other way, if you want to keep out of prison.
Caffyn was no longer visible, having retired to the balcony, so that the elder lady was somewhat bewildered by this appeal, especially as she did not quite catch it. 'Of course you shall go back with me if you want to, she said; 'but are you all alone here? I thought I should find Mr. Caffyn. Where is he? 'There, on the balcony, said Mabel. 'It is no wonder that he is ashamed to show himself!
Only the pressing need of discovering the full extent of the other's information kept Vincent from some outburst. 'What do you know? he demanded. 'Well, said Caffyn, 'I know that you are the real pig, so to speak, and that miserable humbug Ashburn's only the squeak. 'You mean you think you know that what is your authority?
Vincent glanced round at Mark, who stood there the personification of embarrassment and shame. 'I see, he said, with a change in his voice, 'I shall only be in the way here, then. Mark said nothing he could not. 'Well, Caffyn, I'll come with you; the Lakes will do as well as any other place for the short time I shall be in England. 'Then you haven't come home for good? inquired Caffyn.
Mark felt some of his prejudice leaving him already; Caffyn had not the air of a man who had been detected in a course of secret tyranny. There was something flattering, too, in his evident wish to recover Mark's good opinion; he certainly ought to hear both sides before judging so harshly. Perhaps, after all, they had been making a little too much of this business.
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