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He said: "To the hospital. No poisoner can follow my patient there. Persuade him to let me take him away, when I call again in an hour's time." As soon as I could hold a pen, I sent a telegram to you. Pray, pray come by the earliest train. I also telegraphed to old Mr. Dunboyne, at the hotel in London. It was impossible for me to face Helena; I own I was afraid.
"In short," I said, in conclusion, "my inclination for once takes sides with my duty, and leaves my sister in undisturbed possession of young Mr. Dunboyne." With this satirical explanation, I rose to say good-by. I had merely intended to irritate him. He showed a superiority to anger for which I was not prepared. "Be so kind as to sit down again," he said quietly.
Loftus was a young man only twenty-eight years of age, who had made a favourable impression on the queen as well by his beauty as by his learning. Patrick's, Dublin, and about the same time he became a suitor for his brother that he might get the rectory of Dunboyne.
Miss Jillgall suspected that the cause was bad news from Mr. Philip Dunboyne, arriving by that morning's post. "If you will excuse the use of strong language by a lady," she said, "Helena looked perfectly devilish when she opened the letter. She rushed away, and locked herself up in her own shabby room. A serious obstacle, as I suspect, in the way of her marriage. Cheering, isn't it?"
I should have said something which I might have afterward regretted, if Mrs. Tenbruggen had allowed me the opportunity. Fortunately for both of us, she went on with her narrative of her own proceedings. "Philip Dunboyne is an excellent fellow," she continued; "I really like him but he has his faults.
It was not merely my interest, it was an act of downright necessity, to withdraw him from the influence of his hateful father whom I now regard as the one serious obstacle to my marriage. There is no prospect of being rid of Mr. Dunboyne the elder by his returning to Ireland. He is trying a new remedy for his crippled hand electricity. I wish it was lightning, to kill him!
I was writing to his dictation, when we were interrupted. Maria announced a visit from Mr. Dunboyne. Hitherto Philip had been content to send one of the servants of the hotel to make inquiry after Mr. Gracedieu's health. Why had he now called personally? Noticing that father seemed to be annoyed, I tried to make an opportunity of receiving Philip myself.
"If she is charged with attempting to poison young Dunboyne, she has some system of defense, you may rely on it, for which we are not prepared. There, in my opinion, is the true reason for her extraordinary insensibility to her own danger." Two more days passed, and we were still safe under the protection of lock and key.
Miss Jillgall seemed to take a curious pleasure in disappointing me; she had not forgotten my unfortunate abruptness of look and manner. "You won't find him here," she said. "Perhaps he has left England?" "If you must know, sir, he is in London with Mr. Dunboyne." The name startled me.
The heart must be hard indeed which can resist the distress of a person who is dear to us. I put my arm round her; she was becoming once more the Eunice whom I so dearly loved. "My poor child," I said, "don't distress yourself by speaking of it; I understand. Your father objects to your marrying Mr. Dunboyne." She shook her head. "I can't exactly say, Helena, that papa does that.
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