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Cumberledge," it said, with somewhat uncertain spelling, "and I am very sorry that I was not able to Post the letter to you in London, as the lady ast me, but after her train ad left has I was stepping into mine the Ingine started and I was knocked down and badly hurt and the lady gave me a half-sovering to Post it in London has soon as I got there but bein unable to do so I now return it dear sir not knowing the lady's name and adress she having trusted me through seeing me on the platform, and perhaps you can send it back to her, and was very sorry I could not Post it were she ast me, but time bein an objeck put it in the box in Basingstoke station and now inclose post office order for ten Shillings whitch dear sir kindly let the young lady have from your obedient servant,
As a matter of fact, whatever sum she chooses to pay, I shall hand it over at once to the Bombay Plague Hospital." Sir Ivor looked relieved. "Thank you ever so much!" he said, wringing her hand warmly. "I thowt you were a brick, and now I know it. My wife says your face inspires confidence, and your voice sympathy. She MUST have you with her. And you, Dr. Cumberledge?"
It will only take me five hours at most. By noon I shall be back with you." "What? And leave us here unprotected among the wild beasts and the savages?" Lady Meadowcroft cried, horrified. "In the midst of the forest! Dr. Cumberledge, how can you?" "You are NOT unprotected," I answered, soothing her. "You have Hilda with you. She is worth ten men. And besides, our Nepaulese are fairly trustworthy."
He peered about him with knit brows. "Cumberledge," he asked at last, in a suspicious voice, "did you hear that woman?" "The woman in 93? Delirious?" "No, no. Nurse Wade?" "Hear her?" I echoed, I must candidly admit with intent to deceive. "When she broke the basin?" His forehead relaxed. "Oh! it is nothing," he muttered, hastily. "A mere point of discipline.
Once or twice their eyes met by accident, and Hilda stared him down; Sebastian's eyelids dropped, and he stole away uneasily. In public, we gave no overt sign of our differences; but it was understood on board that relations were strained: that Professor Sebastian and Dr. Cumberledge had been working at the same hospital in London together; and that owing to some disagreement between them Dr.
Sebastian about Miss Wade, and on my recommendation he had found her a vacancy at our hospital. "A most intelligent girl, Cumberledge," he remarked to me with a rare burst of approval for the Professor was always critical after she had been at work for some weeks at St. Nathaniel's. "I am glad you introduced her here.
Cumberledge, Lina, about what I most fear for your dear brother, darling; and... I think... he agrees with me." Mrs. Mallet turned to me, with hollow eyes, still preserving her tragic calm. "I am afraid of it, too," she said, her drawn lips tremulous. "Dr. Cumberledge, we must get him back! We must induce him to face it!"
"Your cousin," Sir Ivor answered, with emphatic dignity, "is certain to have mixed with nobbut the highest officials in Burma." "Yes, I'm sure Dick used to speak of a certain Sir Malcolm. My cousin's name, Dr. Cumberledge, was Maltby Captain Richard Maltby." "Indeed," I answered, with an icy stare. "I cannot pretend to the pleasure of having met him."
Then I said to myself again, 'Dr. Hubert Ford Cumberledge must be their son. So there you have 'the train of reasoning. Women CAN reason sometimes. I had to think twice, though, before I could recall the exact words of the Times notice." "And can you do the same with everyone?" "Everyone! Oh, come, now: that is expecting too much!
"There is such a thing as being TOO modest and unassuming," I answered. "It sometimes leads to unintentional cruelty." "No, do you think so?" he cried, his face falling all at once. "I should blame myself bitterly if that were so. Dr. Cumberledge, you are her cousin. DO you gather that I have acted in such a way as to to lead Miss Tepping to suppose I felt any affection for her?"
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