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Conolly's first glance on entering was at the piano: his next went in search of his wife. "Ah!" he said, surprised. "I thought somebody was singing." "Oh dear no!" said Elinor drily. "You must have been mistaken." "Perhaps so," said he, smiling. "But I have been listening carefully at the window for ten minutes; and I certainly dreamt that I heard Auld Robin Gray." Marian blushed.
But Ah San was a man of courage and resource as well and his five-and-twenty years' experience of bush and mining life in the Far North of Australia enabled him to pilot the remainder of his men by forced marches to the Cape River, where they had spelled for a month so as to gain strength for the long stage between that river and Conolly's Creek, on one of the deserted fields of which he hoped to settle and retrieve his broken fortunes.
Conolly shook his head; and they went downstairs in silence. "Hallo!" said he, as he opened the door, "it is raining. Let me lend you a coat." "Thank you, no. Not at all. Good-night," said the clergyman, quickly, and hastened away through the rain from Conolly's civilities. When he arrived at Westbourne Terrace, there was a cab waiting before the house.
After their departure Eliza came to her, and invited her to go upstairs and see the body of Susanna. She refused with a shudder; but when she saw that the girl was hurt as well as astonished, it occurred to her that avoidance of the dead might, if it came to Conolly's knowledge, be taken by him to indicate a lack of kind feeling toward his sister.
"No doubt; but apart from her personal charms, about which I am not curious, is she willing to assist us?" "No. I could make no impression on her at all." "Well, it cannot be helped. Did you say anything about Conolly's selling his interest here and leaving the country?" "No," said the clergyman, struck with a sense of remissness. "I forgot that. The fact is, I hardly had the oppor " "Never mind.
"Indeed? Perhaps they have had enough of you." Marmaduke reddened. "You seem to have exhausted the joys of this world since the concert last night. Are you jealous of Mr. Conolly's success?" "Your by-play when you found how early it was at the end of the concert was not lost on us," said Marian demurely. "You were going somewhere, were you not?"
I tell you candidly, I think that under the circumstances your connexion with Conolly's sister is a disgraceful one." "Hang Conolly! Everybody thinks of Marian, and nobody of Susanna. I have heard enough of that side of the question. Marian married him with her eyes open." "Do you mean to say that she knew?" "Of course she did. Conolly told her, fairly enough.
If he could have but shaped a pertinent question or two, enough to prove that he was quite capable of the subject if he chose to turn his attention to it, he could have accepted Conolly's information on the machinery as indifferently as that of a policeman on the shortest way to some place that it was no part of a gentleman's routine to frequent.
Fairfax was about to reply, when the expression which she habitually wore like a mask in society, wavered and broke. Her lip trembled: her eyes filled with tears: she rose with a sniff that was half a sob. When she spoke, her voice was sincere for the first time, and at the sound of it Conolly's steely, hard manner melted, and his inhuman self-possession vanished.
"Let me go," said Elinor, snatching away her hand, which he had seized. "You ought to be at home in bed. You are a sot." At this Marmaduke laughed boisterously. She passed him contemptuously, and left. The three men then went upstairs, Marmaduke dropping his pretence of drunkenness under the influence of Conolly's presence. "Marian is not in, I presume," said the clergyman, when they were seated.
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