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"'The cropsticks of flamingo bicrastus quack." The doctor frowned, laid his hat on the table, and seating himself took the paper from Cicely Drane. "This is strange," said he. "It does seem to be 'cropsticks of flamingo, but what can that mean?" "That is what I came to ask you," said she. "I have been puzzling over it a good while, and I supposed, of course, you would know what it is."
I have not changed my mind in the least. I still think that Dora would be the best wife young Haverley could have, and after I found that you had added to your treacheries or stupidities, or whatever they were, by carrying her off to Barport, I intended to take advantage of the situation, so I got Dora to invite Miriam there, feeling sure that the Drane women would have sense enough to know that they then ought to leave Cobhurst; but they had not sense enough, and they stayed there.
Drane intended now to get up sooner in the morning, but she did not do it; and she resolved that she would not drop asleep in her chair early in the evening, as she had felt perfectly free to do when Miriam was with them; but she calmly dozed all the same. There was another obstacle to Mrs. Drane's good intentions, of which she knew nothing.
There could be no doubt that the initials "A. D." in the anonymous note stood, not for Abner Dudley, but for Anson Drane, who probably for greater security had dropped his first baptismal name in the correspondence with the intriguers. "Can it be," he thought, "that both men are implicated in this nefarious matter?
"Now," said Miss Panney, "I suppose you feel quite certain that Miss Drane is a young woman who will suit your temperament and your general intellectual needs?" "Indeed I do," cried Ralph. "She suits me in every possible way."
"Don't you think," interpolated Miriam, "that there is a great deal more said and done about eating than the subject is worth?" Mrs. Drane looked a little anxiously at La Fleur, but the cook did not in the least resent the remark. "You are young yet, Miss Miriam," she said; "but when you are older, you will think more of the higher branches of education, the very topmost of which is cookery.
"Wait," Drane answered, "until you have seen this," placing before the old gentleman the following torn and crumpled fragment: CAN Honored Sir: I was in Lexington again and del'v'd y'r enclosure containing reco owing to the absence of two of the Power, I can accomplish nothing.
"The young man and that Cicely Drane of yours have agreed to marry each other, and I suppose the old lady will live with them, and Miriam will have to get down from her high horse and agree to play second fiddle, or go to school again. She is too young for anything else." The doctor stared. "You amaze me!" he cried. "Oh, you needn't be amazed," said Miss Panney; "I did it!"
Hav'ley was the one to git married, an' he was to take some lady that was livin' here anyway an' was used to the place, an' the ways of the house, an' didn't want to go anywheres else an' wanted to stay here an' not to chance nothin' an' have the same people workin' as worked before, like Miss Drane, say, with her mother livin' here jes' the same, an' you keepin' house jes' as you is now, an' all goin' on without no upsottin', of course Seraphina, she wouldn't mind that.
So great was Gilcrest's infatuation for Drane, he had violated his promise made to Bullock, and had hinted of these intrigues to Drane, who thus had much material to work upon in his attempt to prejudice Gilcrest against Betsy's lover. "How in the world did this paper fall into your hands?" was Gilcrest's first query, after examining the communication of "B. S."
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