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Later, that he had found his way to their lodging. I followed him there. He may have gone there with an errand from you, Duke, but when I arrived he was doing a little business on his own account, and these papers were in the act of passing from him to his father." "What are they?" Lord Chelsford asked. "Your Lordship may recognize them," I answered quietly.
"Not only that, Grooton, but the fact that I called here and left a communication for Lord Chelsford is also to be forgotten." "I quite understand, your Grace," Grooton assured him.
I left his Grace to go to Lord Chelsford, who found me some work in London." "Secret service work, wasn't it, Grooton?" "Yes, sir." "Interesting?" "Some parts of it very interesting, sir." I nodded and drank my coffee. Grooton was watching me with an air of respectful interest. "You will pardon my remarking it, sir, but I hope you will try and get some sleep during the day.
Lord Chelsford rose. I followed his example. Neither the Duke nor Ray attempted any form of farewell. The former, however, laid some notes upon the table. "I believe, Mr. Ducaine," he said, "that there is a month's salary due to you. I have added something to the amount. Until to-day I have always considered your duties admirably fulfilled." I looked at the notes and at the Duke.
"I have work to do, Lady Angela, and I am going to it with a good heart. When we meet again I hope that it may be differently. Your coming the memory of it will stand often between me and loneliness. It will sweeten the very bitterest of my days." "You are really going to China?" she murmured. I glanced towards Lord Chelsford. His back was turned to us.
I speak to you for your mother's sake, boy. You have started life with a cursed heritage. I want to make allowance for it." I looked him straight in the face. "I am afraid, Colonel Ray," I said, "that you are not inclined to give me credit for very much common sense. Take those papers to Lord Chelsford. I will come round to your rooms as soon as possible."
"Lady Chelsford and the Marchioness of Cardenne, your ladyship," he announced. "Mrs. and the Misses Colquhoun. Sir George Treherne!" It was a transformation.
After three days the house party at Rowchester was somewhat unexpectedly broken up. Lord Chelsford departed early one morning by special train, and the Duke himself and the remainder of his guests left for London later on in the day. I remained behind with three weeks' work, and a fear which never left me by day or by night.
Lord Chelsford in his wife's presence was careful to treat me as an ordinary guest; but directly she had left the room and we were alone he abandoned his reticence. "Mr. Ducaine," he said, "from the time of our last conversation at the War Office and our subsequent tete-a-tete I have reposed in you the most implicit confidence." "I have done my best, sir," I answered, "to deserve it."
"I am in your hands, sir," I answered. "You must do as you think best." "They will be back in a moment. It is absurd to doubt either of them, Ducaine. Yet I shall keep silent. I have an idea. Agree to everything I say." The Duke and Ray returned together. Lord Chelsford turned to them. "Mr. Ducaine," he said, coldly, "persists in his denial of any knowledge of to-day's affair.
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