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"A house full of the materials for an explosion." And he had lived in that house blind fool! week after week and had noticed nothing! "Why why did no one warn me before?" he stammered. "My poor Laura! Why didn't you send me away?" "But if it hadn't been you it would have been someone else!" said Mrs. Clowes simply. "At one time it was Val: then it was Dr.
"Do you call Val a coward? Nervous collapses were not so uncommon as you may have gathered from the Daily Mail." "Did Major Clowes describe the scene truthfully?" "Yes." "Did you ever break down like Val?" "I was older." "There were plenty of boys of nineteen, officers and men. Did you ever know such another case so complete, so prolonged?" "I've commanded a firing party." "For cowardice?"
"Damn the commissary! say I," growled Andre, "and let his fate be to starve ever after on the stuff he palms on us as fit to eat." "Amen," remarked a voice outside, and Lord Clowes stepped into the room. "I'll take hell and army rations, Captain Andre, rather than lose the pleasure of your society," he added ironically.
Pray Heaven they don't lay down their arms too soon, for I ambition to be wealthier still. Canst hope better for your daughter than that she be made Lady Clowes, and rich to boot?" "She's promised " began the squire, but once again the suitor cut him off. "She herself told me she is pledged to no one but me." "Nay, I've passed my word to Leftenant Hennion." "Chut!
"Ye can make it such, an' it please ye. She perceived me not, but I saw your daughter as ye rode up, and though I thought myself well cured of the infatuation, poof! one gloat was enough to set my blood afire, as if I were but a boy of eighteen again. Lord Clowes, with a cool ninety thousand, is ready to make her fortune and yours." "Nay, Clowes, ye know I've passed my word to Hennion, and "
As O'Hara was going, Trevor asked him for his gold bat. "You haven't lost it, I hope?" he said. O'Hara felt in his pocket, but brought his hand out at once and transferred it to another pocket. A look of anxiety came over his face, and was reflected in Trevor's. "I could have sworn it was in that pocket," he said. "You haven't lost it?" queried Trevor again. "He has," said Clowes, confidently.
"Set to on the quilt, girl, and see to it that there's no sneaking to the kitchen." Scarcely had Janice, obedient to her mother's behest, seated herself at the big quilting-frame, when Lord Clowes joined her. "They treat ye harsh, Miss Janice," he remarked sympathetically; "but 't is an unforgiving world, as I have good cause to wot."
"Neat for a first shot," said Clowes, complacently. "Now for the Umustaphas and shag." But as he looked into the drawer he uttered a sudden cry of excitement. He drew something out, and tossed it over to Trevor. "Catch, Trevor," he said quietly. "Something that'll interest you." Trevor caught it neatly in one hand, and stood staring at it as if he had never seen anything like it before.
"That's exactly the same sort of card as they used to use," said Clowes. "I've seen some of them. What do you think of that?" "I think whoever has started the thing is a pretty average-sized idiot. He's bound to get caught some time or other, and then out he goes. The Old Man wouldn't think twice about sacking a chap of that sort."
"You will go with him," said Bernard Clowes, his fingers tightening on her wrist. "Stop here: come closer." He locked his arm round her waist. "Is he your lover yet, Lally? Tell me: I swear I won't kill you if you do. Are you on the borderland of virtue still, or over it?" "Let me go," said Laura, panting for breath under his clenched grip. "I will not answer such questions.
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