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I was afraid you would be too late for Sir Dugald's dinner, and here you are just in time. I hope you are well, and not tired." Theo replied meekly. She was quite well, and not at all tired, which seemed to satisfy her ladyship, for she nodded her handsome old head approvingly. "Very well, then, my dear," she said. "I will ring for Splaighton to take you up-stairs, and attend to you.
Claudia did understand it, and was filled with a vague sense of horror and amazement. They sat down to the table. Lord Vincent followed Mrs. Dugald's advice and tried to "rouse" himself. And after he had two or three cups of coffee he succeeded. Faustina was as bright as a paroquet and as gay as a lark. She prattled on in a perpetual, purling stream of music.
Even in his throes upon his latter bed Dugald could see what Jock could never see the doom in this lad's countenance. As for me, I was done with the fellow after the trick he played us in his story of the wreck on Ealan Dubh. I blame him, in a way, for my brother Dugald's stroke." The dominie looked in a startled remonstrance.
This compliment he repeated twice; but as Annot scarce heard him the first time, and did not comprehend him the second, he was obliged to explain. "If you would have the goodness to explain," said Annot, too sick at heart to be amused by Sir Dugald's airs of pedantic gallantry. "That, madam," replied the Knight, "may not be so easy, as I am out of the habit of construing but we shall try.
Dugald from the first; he habitually deceived her. In this instance he persuaded her that old Katie died under the influence of the chloroform that she had helped to administer on that fatal night when the old negress had been discovered eavesdropping behind the curtain in Mrs. Dugald's apartments.
"It is of Mrs. Dugald that I wish to speak to you." "I am listening, my lord," replied Claudia haughtily. "Lady Vincent, this arrogant manner towards me will not serve any good purpose. However, it is not on my own score that I came to complain, but on Mrs. Dugald's; that lady's position in this house is a very delicate one."
What else could the strange words of Dugald have meant, save that some friend proposed to climb those stairs and gently open that stubborn door? And in this opinion he had been confirmed when he observed that on Dugald's departure the key turned with a silence suggesting a recently oiled lock. Clearly, he thought, it was not thus arranged without some very special purpose.
Dugald's room, and which she was so far from connecting with any idea of Katie that she attributed them solely to a quarrel between her two precious companions; and lastly the ever-recurring thoughts of that mysterious discovery which old Katie had made, and which she was so eager to impart to her lady. Ever Claudia's thoughts, traveling in a circle, came back to this point.
"Oh, I shall not tell Sir Dugald," he said to her, good-humoredly. "Besides, I think the comparison an excellent one. I don't know anything in London so like Sir Dugald as Sir Dugald's dog." Theodora stroked Sabre, apologetically, but could scarcely find courage to speak. She had stood somewhat in awe of Mr. Denis Oglethorpe, even at first, and her discomfort was rapidly increasing.
"What's wrong?" "Nothing, only there is a crack in the bottom, running all the way along where it joins the side." "Warped a bit, I suppose. No matter, it can be easily repaired crack? I say, lassie, look here!" Under the pressure of Dugald's fingers the floor of the chest was swinging upward on an invisible hinge. Between it and the true bottom was a space of about three inches in depth.
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