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And on the afternoon which saw Barthorpe committed to take his trial, he went away from Bow Street, alone, thinking more deeply than ever. He walked home to his house in Endsleigh Gardens, head bent, hands clasped behind his big back, the very incarnation of deep and ponderous musing.
As the large party talked at the top of its lungs, Miriam's quiet voice, with its liquid, almost contralto, quality, reached her companion's ears unheard by others. She began with Bishop Endsleigh who was on Miss Jarrott's right. Then came Mrs. Stephen Colfax; after her Mr. Endsleigh Jarrott, who had on his right Mrs. Reginald Pole. Mrs.
Endsleigh Jarrott, and that, after the one glance, he had not turned toward her again; she was sure he knew that she understood him, and that he recognized her power to wait in patience to have the mystery explained. In the drawing-room he was introduced to her. Miss Jarrott led him up and made the presentation. "Miss Strange, I want you to know Mr. Strange. Now isn't that funny?
A hasty embrace from Evie an angelic vision in white was followed by a few words of greeting from Charles Conquest after which Miriam saw Miss Jarrott take the arm of Bishop Endsleigh, and the procession began to move. At table Miriam was glad of the dim, rose-colored light. It offered her a seclusion into which she could withdraw, tending her services to Wayne.
Endsleigh Jarrott's voice ran on: "People say our society has no traditions. It has traditions. It has the traditions of the country village, and it has never outgrown them. We're nothing but the country village writ large.
The Duke of Bedford's attractive villa of Endsleigh is near Tavistock, and a short distance south of the town is Buckland Abbey, built on the river-bank by the Countess of Devon in the thirteenth century. This was the home of Sir Francis Drake, and is still held by his descendants. Drake was born in a modest cottage on the banks of the Tavy about the year 1539.
"I think," he said at last, "yes, I think that when we've made this call, I shall ask you to accompany me to my friend Cox-Raythwaite's, in Endsleigh Gardens you know him, I believe. I've already seen him this morning and told him something. When we get there, I'll tell it to you, and he shall show you something. After that, we'll hear what your legal instinct suggests.
Mary Pole on Wayne's right claimed his attention and Miriam was left her own mistress. Almost at once her attention was arrested by hearing Mrs. Endsleigh Jarrott saying in that appealing voice which she counted as the secret of her success with men: "Now do give me your frank opinion, Mr. Strange. You don't know how much I should like it.
"I thought you did all that through Cousin Endsleigh Jarrott and Mr. Conquest?" "This was a little thing I couldn't trouble them with." "And you went straight off to him, when you'd only known him let me see! how many days? one, two, three, four " "I've gone to people I didn't know at all sometimes. You have to. If you only knew more about investing money "
Endsleigh Jarrott as we came in while Queenie Jarrott was talking that you were he most strikingly beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life. How's that for a compliment from a perfect stranger?" "I certainly sha'n't speak to him now. A man who could say that to Mrs. Endsleigh, after having seen her, must be wofully wanting in tact."
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