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Bobbie Forbes and Diana exclaimed, simultaneously. Then Diana sped along the pavement. "Who?" said Chide, rejoining the other two. "Frobisher and Miss Vincent," said Forbes, studying the new-comers. "Miss Vincent!" Chide's voice showed his astonishment. "I thought she had been very ill." "So she has," said Ferrier "very ill. It is amazing to see her here." "And Frobisher?" Ferrier made no reply.
By now the news had travelled through England. Marsham worked hard, saving Sir James all he could. Another messenger arrived from Lord Broadstone, with a pathetic letter for Sir James. Chide's face darkened over it. "Broadstone must bear up," he said to Marsham, as they stood together in Chide's sanctum. "It was not his fault, and he has the country to think of. You tell him so. Now, are you off?"
"Lord Broadstone's messenger?" "He brought a letter for Mr. Ferrier, sir, half an hour ago." Chide's face changed. "Where is the letter?" He turned to the doctor, who shook his head. "I saw nothing when we brought him in." Marsham, who had overheard the conversation, came forward. "Perhaps on the grass " Chide pale, with drawn brows looked at him a moment in silence.
Then he remembered, and with involuntary relief, that he must get back to town, and to the House, for an important division. He told her, and she made no protest. Evidently she was already absorbed in the thought of Sir James Chide's visit. But when the time came for him to go she let herself be kissed, and then, as he was moving away, she caught his hand, and held it wildly to her lips.
Frederick Birch a post in the office of a large sugar estate, in which an old friend of Chide's had an interest. Fanny showed no rapture in the prospect of thus returning to the bosom of her family. But there was no help for it. By what means the transformation scene had been effected it would be waste of time to inquire.
"Stick to her, Oliver! she is worth it!" Chide's eager and peremptory tone smote on the inward ear. Of course he would stick to her. The only thing which it gave him any pleasure to remember in this nightmare of a day was his own answer to Ferrier's suggestion that Diana might release him: "Do you imagine I could be such a hound as to let her?"
Among the educated people people who liked dissecting "interesting" or "mysterious" crimes there had been no doubt long discussions of Sir James Chide's letter to the Times, of Sir Francis Wing's confession.
As the two men sat talking the messenger arrived from Beechcote with Sir James Chide's letter. From the Premier's expression as he laid it down Marsham divined that it contained Chide's refusal to join the Government. Lord Broadstone got up and began to move to and fro, wrapped in a cloud of thought. He seemed to forget Marsham's presence, and Marsham made a movement to go.
Chide's expression showed perplexity, perhaps a shade of coldness. In him a warm Irish heart was joined with great strictness, even prudishness of manners, the result of an Irish Catholic education of the old type. Young women, in his opinion, could hardly be too careful, in a calumnious world.
"If I can whisper you what you want," said Oliver, huskily, "it's at your service! There are the cigarettes." The talk lasted long. Midnight was near before the two men separated. The news of Marsham's election reached Ferrier under Sir James Chide's roof, in the pleasant furnished house about four miles from Beechcote, of which he had lately become the tenant in order to be near Diana.
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