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"This is a great cotton country?" "Dey don't raise no cotton now to what dey used to when old Gen'rel Cresswell fust come from Carolina; den it was a bale and a half to the acre on stalks dat looked like young brushwood. Dat was cotton." "You know the Cresswells, then?" "Know dem? I knowed dem afore dey was born." "They are wealthy people?" "Dey rolls in money and dey'se quality, too.
"That's because it is a hard winter. Miss Bright, you are right in you conviction. Valentine Cresswell is has been totally evil, and is deliberately, coldly, but with determination, compassing the utter ruin of the man who trusts him and believes in him of Addison."
"That's right enough comparatively speaking," said one. "But if they're in the Warren we shall get 'em out. The first thing to do, gentlemen, is to take a look at that tug." "Exactly!" exclaimed Sir Cresswell. "Just what I was thinking. Let us find out what its people have to say."
Copplestone was still wondering what the Squire of Scarhaven could have to do with the Fragonard Club when he went to Mr. Petherton's office the next morning. He was late for the appointment which Gilling had made, and when he arrived Gilling had already reported all that had taken place the day before to the solicitor and to Sir Cresswell Oliver.
The trees crashed and the stumps groaned and crept up into the air, the brambles blazed and smoked; little frightened animals fled for shelter; and a wide black patch of rich loam broadened and broadened till it kissed, on every side but the sheltered east, the black waters of the lagoon. Late Sunday night the mule again swam the slimy lagoon, and disappeared toward the Cresswell fields.
They can't concentrate; notice how some slept when Dr. Boldish was speaking? Mr. Cresswell says they own almost no land here; think of it? This land was worth only ten dollars an acre a decade ago, he says. Negroes might have bought all and been rich. Very shiftless and that singing. Now, I wonder where they got the music? Imitation, of course."
She reached the back landing just in time to see Colonel Cresswell's head rising up the front staircase. With a quick bound she almost fell into the first room at the top of the stairs. Bles Alwyn had hurried through his dinner duties and hastened to the Oaks. The questions, the doubts, the uncertainty within him were clamoring for utterance. How much had Mrs. Cresswell ever known of Zora?
"That is what I am afraid of," said Beale, "she is all pluck " He stopped, for he had heard the doctor's door close. In three strides he had crossed the hallway and was in the corridor, confronting his suave neighbour. Dr. van Heerden, carefully attired, was pulling on his gloves and smiled into the stern face of his rival. "Well," he asked pleasantly, "any news of Miss Cresswell?"
"There are other things which intoxicate a man beside love and beer, Miss Cresswell." "How gross!" she protested. "What are they?" "Work, the chase, scientific research and the first spring scent of the hawthorn," he said solemnly. "As to the third question, why was I not around when you were nearly arrested? Well, I was around.
"I know him, but I am afraid I don't know much that is good about him. Now, I'm going to tell you, Miss Cresswell" he leant across the table and spoke in a lower tone "something that I have never told to a human being. You raised the question of the Millinborn murder. My view is that Kitson, the lawyer, knew much more about that murder than any man in this world.
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