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Updated: June 8, 2025
And should she do it, all might be over. Would the woman listen to reason, and be persuaded not to ruin one who had never intentionally harmed her? It was night in the valley between Endelstow Crags and the shore. The brook which trickled that way to the sea was distinct in its murmurs now, and over the line of its course there began to hang a white riband of fog.
The path passed this erection and went on to the house as well as to the gardener's cottage on the other side, straggling thence to East Endelstow; so that Stephen felt no hesitation in entering a promenade which could scarcely be called private. He fancied that he heard the gate open and swing together again behind him. Turning, he saw nobody. The people of the boat came to the summer-house.
She lay on her side above him her fingers clasped. Seeing him again steady, she jumped upon her feet. 'Now, if I can only save you by running for help! she cried. 'Oh, I would have died instead! Why did you try so hard to deliver me? And she turned away wildly to run for assistance. 'Elfride, how long will it take you to run to Endelstow and back? 'Three-quarters of an hour.
'I have known labouring men at Endelstow and other farms who had framed complete systems of observation for that purpose.
'Yes; and you are thinking why did I conceal the fact from you that time at Endelstow, are you not? 'Yes, and more more. 'I did it for the best; blame me if you will; I did it for the best. And now say how could I be with you afterwards as I had been before? 'I don't know at all; I can't say. Knight remained fixed in thought, and once he murmured
'They are labourers, I fancy, said Stephen. 'Ah, it is strange; but I recognize three of them as Endelstow men. Rather remarkable this. Presently they began to come out, two and two; and under the rays of the lamp they were seen to bear between them a light-coloured coffin of satin-wood, brightly polished, and without a nail.
'Total time from leaving Endelstow till twelve o'clock, five hours. 'Therefore I shall have to start at seven. No surprise or sense of unwontedness entered the minds of the servants at her early ride.
East Endelstow was more wooded and fertile: it boasted of Lord Luxellian's mansion and park, and was free from those bleak open uplands which lent such an air of desolation to the vicinage of the coast always excepting the small valley in which stood the vicarage and Mrs. Swancourt's old house, The Crags.
As the train changed its direction on a curve, the same rays stretched in through the window, and coaxed open Knight's half-closed eyes. 'You will get out at St. Launce's, I suppose? he murmured. 'No, said Stephen, 'I am not expected till to-morrow. Knight was silent. 'And you are you going to Endelstow? said the younger man pointedly.
For by this time they had reached the precincts of Endelstow House. Driving through an ancient gate-way of dun-coloured stone, spanned by the high-shouldered Tudor arch, they found themselves in a spacious court, closed by a facade on each of its three sides.
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