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They can light a fire at once in the magnolia room, and prepare it for him. He will be here in an hour. Send the motor to the station. Tell Groatley we will have tea in my sitting-room as soon as Sir Deryck arrives. Send down word to the Lodge to Mrs. O'Mara, that I shall want her up here this evening. Oh, and by the way mention at once at the Lodge that there is no further news from abroad."
Say to him, without explanation, what you have just said to me: that you cannot let him go; and see how he takes it. Listen, Myra. The unforeseen developments of the last few hours have put it into your power to give Jim Airth his chance. You must not rob him of it. Years ago, when Garth and I were in an apparently hopeless tangle of irretrievable mistake, Deryck found us a way out.
Jane's pale, startled face went to the doctor's heart. "But Deryck he loves " "Just because he loves, my poor old girl, where you are concerned he could never be content with less than the best." "Oh, Boy, help me! Find a way! Tell me what to do!" Despair was in Jane's eyes. The doctor considered long, in silence. At last he said: "I see only one way out.
"Little Peter asked a question," replied Sir Deryck, gravely; "and I answered it." "Wonderful! Will you talk this telepathy over with Michael when he comes home? It would interest him." The doctor looked into the fire. "It is a big subject," he said. "When I can spare the time, I am thinking of writing an essay on the mental and spiritual development of animals, as revealed in the Bible."
"I am perfectly aware of that," replied Lady Ingleby, calmly; "but I fail to understand, Sir Deryck, why you should consider it necessary to come down here in order to discuss it." This most unexpected reply for a moment completely nonplussed the doctor. But rapid mental adjustment formed an important part of his professional equipment. "I fear we are speaking at cross-purposes," he said, gently.
Old Margery paused before a door at the end of the passage, knocked lightly; then looked up at the doctor with her hand on the door-handle, and an expression of pleading earnestness in her faithful Scotch eyes. "And you will not forget the wooden spoon, Sir Deryck?" The doctor looked down into the kind old face raised to his in the dim light.
"She does not weep easily, sir," replied Margaret O'Mara, "and I have known her to lie widely awake throughout an entire night with less cause for sorrow than this." "Ah," said the doctor; and he looked keenly at the woman from the Lodge. "I wonder what else you have known?" he thought. But he did not voice the conjecture. Deryck Brand rarely asked questions of a third person.
There were at least a dozen young men of whom she could have given the names upon hearing a description of their method. Also, she had learned from Deryck Brand the value of silences in an important conversation, and the art of not weakening a statement by a postscript. At last Garth spoke.
Now, in your case, Jim Airth must be given the chance to go behind his madness, regain his own self-respect, and prove himself worthy of your trust. Have you told any one of the second telegram from Cairo?" "I saw nobody," said Lady Ingleby, "from the moment Sir Deryck left me, until you walked in." "Very well. Then you, and Deryck, and I, are the only people in England who know of it.
Garth took out his cigarette case, chose a cigarette, lighted it with care, and flung the flaming match straight on to Jane's clasped hands. Before the doctor could spring up, Jane had smilingly flicked it off. "What nerve!" thought Deryck, with admiration. "Ninety-nine women out of a hundred would have said 'Ah! and given away the show. Really, she deserves to win." Suddenly Garth stood up.
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