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Rachel, indeed, was in a radiant mood. Pallor and depression had vanished; she was full of chatter about the streets, the crowds, the shops. "But it's hopeless to go shopping with a man! He can't make up his mind one bit!" "He hadn't a mind to make up!" murmured Ellesborough, looking up at her as she perched above him on a corner of the table. She laughed.
Rachel seemed to take her increasing subjection hardly, to be fighting obscurely against it all the time, as though she were hampered by thought and motives unknown to the other two. Ellesborough, Janet thought, was often puzzled by the cynical or bitter talk with which Rachel would sometimes deliberately provoke him.
I did just enough to see that no one had any right to it but you. She wrote it I think about an hour before you came. It was her last word." "I have her letters also" said Ellesborough, almost inaudibly, as he took the book "You brought it you kind woman! You were her good angel God reward you!" Then at last a convulsion of weeping showed in Janet's face.
Very likely Ellesborough was well off Yankees generally were and she knew that what she gave Delane as hush money would make very little difference to her. Ellesborough no doubt would not look very closely into her shekels, having sufficient of his own. Otherwise it might occur to him to wonder how she had got rid of that £500. Would it pinch her?
And thereupon they went back to the sowing of one of Miss Henderson's big fields with winter wheat. When the milking was done, and work was nearly over for the day, a note brought by messenger arrived at the farm for Miss Henderson. It was from Ellesborough a few scribbled words. "I am prevented from coming this evening.
The man who had been standing among the dead brushwood on the other side of the descending timber, about a hundred yards away, had disappeared; and the huge beech just launched from above had ceased to move. Another cry for help. "The cable's broken!" said Ellesborough, starting at full speed for the slide.
Rachel went along the line pointing out the beauties of each separate beast to Ellesborough, and caressing two little calves whom Jenny was feeding by hand. Ellesborough was amused by her technical talk and her proprietor's airs. It seemed to him a kind of play-acting, but it fascinated him.
Nor would she disturb Rachel's mind by any talk just then of what seemed to be a fresh attempt at terrorism on the part of her wretched husband. Hastings would be in charge for the moment, and Ellesborough would be on the spot for consultation before darkness had really set in. So as before, she told Hastings not to alarm Miss Henderson.
Dempsey did not find Rachel Henderson at home when he called at Great End Farm, after his meeting with his unknown companion on the common. Ellesborough and Rachel had gone to London for the day.
Rachel deserted Rachel in despair Rachel turning on the woman who had advised her to her undoing all these images were beating on Janet's tremulous sense, as the small military hut where Ellesborough and two of his junior officers lived came into view, together with that wide hollow of the forestry camp where he and Rachel had first met.
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