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Updated: June 2, 2025
We were all together on the top of a coach in Scotland, don't you remember? Had such a jolly time in the beastly rain. You didn't catch my name. It's Duncaster." The consul at once recalled his former fellow-traveler. The two men shook hands. The Englishman took a pipe from his smoking-jacket, and drew a chair beside the consul.
Nevertheless, before they left the station, she informed him that she had been told that the station-master had addressed the stranger as "my lord," and that another passenger had said he was "Lord Duncaster." "And that proves" "That I'm right," said the young lady decisively, "and that his invitation was a mere form."
Captain Hawkins looked up and said rather seriously: "Then, my Lord, I presume you don't know " "Don't know what?" "That Miss Rennick is crossing in the care of Mrs. Van Stuyler, to be married in London next month." "The devil she is! And to whom, may I ask?" exclaimed his lordship, pulling himself up very straight. "To the Marquis of Byfleet, son of the Duke of Duncaster.
The Englishman rose, and, bending over the hearth, slowly knocked the ashes from his pipe. "That's quite impossible, don't you know. For," he added, as he stood up in front of the fire in face, figure, and careless repose more decidedly English than ever, "you see my title of Duncaster only came to me through an uncle, but I am the direct and sole heir of the old family, and the Scotch property.
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