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You will be surprised to hear that I have taken it upon myself, as the wife of Challis Wrandall and, as I regard it, the one MOST vitally concerned if not interested in the discovery and punishment of the person who took his life, I say I have taken it upon myself to shield, protect and defend the unhappy young woman who accompanied him to Burton's Inn on that night in March.
Challis 'ave told me to look for 'un," added the man, and continued his aimless prodding of the gorse. "Where is Mr. Challis?" I asked. "'E's yonder, soomewheres." He made a vague gesture in the direction of Pym. The sun had come out, and the Common was all aglow. I hastened towards the village. On the way I met Farmer Bates and two or three labourers.
"Open!" commanded the Wonder, and Heathcote obeyed, weak-kneed. The door chanced to be the right one, the door of the breakfast-room, and the Wonder walked in, still wearing his cap. Challis came forward to meet him with a conventional greeting.
But as the national telescope at Greenwich was otherwise occupied, he wrote to Professor Challis, at Cambridge, to know whether he would permit a search to be made for it with the Northumberland equatorial, the large telescope at Cambridge University, presented to it by one of the Dukes of Northumberland.
The intruder was the local magnate, the landlord of Stoke, Wenderby, Chilborough, a greater part of Ailesworth, two or three minor parishes, and, incidentally, of Pym. This magnate, Henry Challis, was a man of some scholarship, whose ambition had been crushed by the weight of his possessions.
"Please, mother," he cried miserably. "You say this to me NOW," she went on. "You who are left to take his place in my affection. Why, Leslie, I I " Vivian interposed. "Les is upset, mamma darling. You know he loved Challis as deeply as any of us loved him." Afterwards the girl said to Leslie when they were quite alone: "She will never forgive you for that, Les. It was a beastly thing to say."
Almost word for word she repeated Hetty's own story of her meeting with Challis Wrandall, and how she went, step by step and blindly, to the last scene in the tragedy, when his vileness, his true nature was revealed to her. The girl had told her everything. She had thought herself to be in love with Wrandall. She was carried away by his protestations. She was infatuated.
But, now, I cannot for the life of me remember whether there was such an oleograph or not. I do not remember noticing it at the time." "Yes, that's very interesting," replied Lewes. "There is certainly a wide field for research in that direction." "You might throw much light on our mental processes," replied Challis.
When thou hast drunk the juice give it me back, that I may chew the husk which is sweet as the sugar-cane of Samoa," and he squatted down again on the gravel. Challis drank, then threw him the husk and resumed his work. Presently the boy, tearing off a strip of the husk with his white teeth, said, "Tialli, how is it that there be no drinking-nuts in thy house?" This latter in jest. "Nay, Tialli.
The answer is ready: Hetty was a slave bound to an extraordinary condition. There had been no coercion on the part of Challis Wrandall's wife; no actual restraint had been set upon the girl. The situation was a plain one from every point of view: Hetty owed her life to Sara, she would have paid with her life's blood the debt she owed.
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