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Updated: June 22, 2025
She had accepted the little conspiracy of silence as a proof of his tenderness, and had obediently asked no questions. And it had not yet occurred to her to connect the stories floating about the farm with Delane's reappearance. The stunning fact of the reappearance, with all that it might mean to her, absorbed her mind for a few hours yet.
There must have been some connection! And yet there had been no sign of any personal knowledge of Roger Delane in Dempsey's talk; and no reference whatever to Dempsey in Delane's. She went down to supper, very flushed and on edge. Little Jenny eyed her surreptitiously. For the first time the child's raw innocence was disturbed or jealous.
Delane probably regarded it as a piece of Milnes's foolery; he had never heard of young Adams, and never dreamed of his resentment at being ridiculed in the Times; he had no suspicion of the thought floating in the mind of the American Minister's son, for the British mind is the slowest of all minds, as the files of the Times proved, and the capture of Vicksburg had not yet penetrated Delane's thick cortex of fixed ideas.
The Journal gives the chronicle of the last weeks of the year: November 22nd. Visit to Chatsworth. Delane died. 23rd. Chatsworth. Long talk with Lord Hartington. 29th. Delane's funeral at Easthampstead. At Christmas severe illness came on gout and violent bleeding of the nose. I was totally laid up for two months.
He saw from the badge on the man's shoulder that he belonged to one of the Canadian Forestry Corps in the district, and was at once on his guard. They started in silence, till Delane, pulling his mind back with a jerk, asked his companion if he was going to Ipscombe. "No only to Great End Farm." Darkness hid the sudden change in Delane's countenance. "You know some one there?"
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