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If you send my heir a cheque some day after I'm gone it will have the added charm of surprise! Well, that's damned decent, but hardly business. I want to get the whole thing off my chest. Got the statement made up?" Simon shook his head. "Very sorry, Mr. Cromarty. Haven't had time yet." "Hell!" said Mr. Cromarty, though in a cheerful voice, and then added with an engaging smile, "Pardon me, Mr.
"Well, and what shall I do string you up now or hand you over to the police?" "But, Mr. Cromarty you don't believe that's right surely?" Tragic though the occasion was, Ned could not refrain from one brief laugh. And then his face set hard again and he said: "No, Bisset, I do not believe it was you. In fact, I wouldn't believe it was you if you confessed to it.
"That's all we can do just now, Sutherland," he said. "No use disturbing the household any longer at present." Cromarty stepped up to him suddenly and asked: "Tell me honestly! Do you suspect anybody?" Simon shook his head decidedly. "No sufficient evidence yet. Good morning, Mr. Cromarty."
In England so I learned from my instructions it would be necessary to calculate distances, to take observations on the exact nature of the newly reconstructed Rossyth base near Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth; besides keeping in touch with things in Cromarty. I was to watch especially the new Rossyth base and to report progress on armaments, new equipment, anything of use to the German Admiralty.
The next event was the somewhat sudden entry of Lilian Cromarty, and that lady's self control was never more severely tested or brilliantly vindicated. One startled glance, and then she was saying, briskly, and with the old bright smile: "A telegram for you, Ned." "Thanks," said he. "By the way, here's the future Mrs. Ned that's to say if she doesn't funk it before the wedding."
She stopped and regarded the young author with a reproving eye. "Is anything the matter?" she asked. "I just wanted to speak to you!" he pleaded. "Now, Malcolm," she said severely, "you know quite well that Lady Cromarty trusts us not to do this sort of thing!" "She's in her room, isn't she?" "What does that matter?" "And where's Sir Reginald?" "Still in the library." "Sitting up late?"
Are you as the head of the Cromarty family, and I as their factor, to do this?" It was difficult to judge with what feelings Ned Cromarty heard this deliberate statement and appeal. His mouth was as hard as the lawyer's and his eye revealed nothing. "Then you propose to hush the thing up?" "I said nothing about hushing up. I propose to wait till I get some evidence, Mr. Cromarty.
I should have enjoyed it very much if it hadn't been that Mrs. Hunter is coming to stay with us, and, of course, I shall be under her wing. Still, I am just as much obliged to you for having thought of it." Mrs. Cromarty was pleased with the girl's warmth and manner, and afterwards mentioned to several of her friends that she thought that Miss Hannay seemed a very nice young woman.
Cromarty, what folks will not believe." "They've got to stop believing this!" said Ned emphatically. Next morning Simon Rattar was again informed that Mr. Cromarty of Stanesland wished to see him, and again the announcement seemed to be unwelcome. He was silent for several seconds before answering, and when he allowed Mr.
"Good morning and many thanks," said he, and then hesitated for an instant. "You couldn't let me have a very small cheque, just to be going on with, could you?" "Not this morning, Mr. Cromarty." Mr. Cromarty's look of despair returned.
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