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"Bobby," she said at once, "I want you and Mr. Daubeney to go down to the launch and await us there. We will join you in a few minutes." "Certainly," was the reply, for Fairholme knew that some motive lay behind the request. "You cannot do much by remaining here, can you, so I suppose you will not be long?" "No; uncle and I will survey the view until it is firmly fixed in our minds.
Who?" asked Jane, with the scorn of one who has already made up her mind to despise. "I was with mother going through the market and Lady St. Leath came by in an open carriage. She was with her. Mother says she's a Miss Daubeney from London and oh! she's perfectly lovely! and mother says she's to marry Lord St. Leath " "Oh! I heard she was coming," said Jane, still scornfully.
Six months later, when the Earl and Countess of Fairholme returned from a prolonged wedding tour on the Blue-Bell through the Norwegian fiords, Brett was invited to dinner. Talbot was there, of course, and Daubeney, and Sir Hubert. "Constantinople must be a queer place," observed Jack after the first rush of animated converse had exhausted itself.
They ran upstairs, and Talbot would have fallen twice had not Brett supported him. Reaching the corridor which contained their apartments they found Sir Hubert, Lord Fairholme, Daubeney, and Mr. Winter standing silently, a sorrowful, motionless group, outside Edith's room. "What terrible thing has happened?" Brett asked them. "Surely Miss Talbot cannot be seriously hurt?"
Suppose it becomes necessary for us to follow up Dubois and his fishing-smack, and we let Daubeney into the know. The Blue-Bell would pursue the Belles Soeurs to China. He would ask no better fun. I tell you that Brett will be delighted when he hears of it." "Yes, dear, but we do not even know that Mr. Daubeney is in Marseilles." "Let us go and see.
Then young Daubeney looked at Bobby. 'Your stick proved useful, youngster; a good thing you were by. 'Yes, said Mr. Allonby, with a little smile, 'it was all the support I needed. I should have gone entirely under if I had not had it at that identical minute. Bobby did not answer, but he tried to smile.
As it happened, Daubeney caught her in the act, and for the next few moments that gentleman's emotions were intense, not to say painful. "Who would have thought it?" he muttered to himself. "A girl like her making secret signs to a dirty scoundrel of that sort. The beggar was good-looking, of course; but what well, I give it up. Poor old Fairholme! What funny creatures women are, to be sure!"
The latter slapped his heavy friend on the back. "Look here, old chap, are you fixed up for a cruise? Plenty of coal, champagne, and all that sort of thing?" "Loaded to the gunwales." "That's all right, because we may want the Blue-Bell for a month or so." "There she is," said Daubeney; "fit to go anywhere and do anything." Miss Talbot had never heard such extraordinary conduct in her life.
She need not have warned Daubeney as to any remarks he might feel inclined to make, for her announcement again rendered him speechless. "It is a mystery," she whispered, "a deep secret. We will tell you all about it at lunch."
A smartly-attired sailor was pretending to find some work in carefully uncoiling a rope which did not satisfy his critical eye. Before Fairholme could hail the man, a rotund form, encased in many yards of blue serge, surmounted by a jolly-looking face on top of which was perched an absurdly small yachting cap, emerged from the companion. "Why, there he is," shouted the earl. "Halloa, Daubeney!
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