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Larkspur to town, that gentleman was seized with serious illness, and for three weeks was unable to leave his bed. Mr. Andrew lay ill with acute bronchitis, in the lodging-house in Percy Street, and Mrs. Eden was compelled to wait his convalescence with what patience she might. Sir Reginald Eversleigh and Douglas Dale met at the Phoenix Club soon after Reginald's interview with Madame Durski.
What has happened to the child?" "She has disappeared." "She has disappeared!" echoed the captain. "I left strict orders that she should not be permitted to stir beyond the castle walls. Who dared to disobey those orders?" "No one," answered Mr. Ashburne. "Miss Eversleigh was not allowed to quit her own apartments.
Such at least was the fixed idea of those who considered themselves the likely inheritors of the baronet's wealth. The chief of these was Reginald Eversleigh, his favourite nephew, the only son of a younger brother, who had fallen gloriously on an Indian battle-field. There were two other nephews who had some right to look forward to a share in the baronet's fortune.
"And you are sure you have made no mistake, Millard. Sir Oswald my poor, poor uncle, said that?" "He said those very words, Mr. Eversleigh; and I hope, sir, now that you are master of Raynham, you won't forget that I was always anxious for your interests, and gave you valuable information, sir, when I little thought you would ever inherit the estate, sir."
You must know everything about his health. Did you ever hear that he suffered from heart-disease?" "No, sir; he never did suffer from anything of the kind. There never was a stronger gentleman than Sir Oswald. In all the years that I have known him, I don't recollect his having a day's serious illness. And as to his dying of disease of the heart, I can't believe it, Mr. Eversleigh."
Spavin, casting a vindictive glance at the horse. "He is rather a handsome animal," said Sir Reginald Eversleigh. "Oh, yes, he's handsome enough," answered the dealer.
You, I should say, are of a different temperament. More energetic. The Get On or Get Out sort of thing. The Young Hustler." "Rather," I replied briskly, "I am in love." "So am I," said Julian Eversleigh. "Hopelessly, however. Give us a match." After that we confirmed our friendship by smoking a number of pipes together.
The two men dined together at their club; they met again and again; sometimes by accident sometimes by appointment. The club was one at which there was a good deal of quiet gambling amongst scientific whist- players; but until his meeting with Reginald Eversleigh, Douglas Dale had never been tempted to take part in a rubber.
"Reginald Eversleigh owes me money, Miss Brewer, and I cannot afford to allow him to remain in my debt. I don't mean that he has borrowed money from me, for I never had any to lend, and, having any, should never have lent it." He saw how the tone he was taking suited the woman's perverted mind, and pursued it.
"The child shall not leave the castle, nor shall she quit my sight during your absence," said Mrs. Morden. "But I hope you will not stay away long." "Rely upon it that I shall not remain away an hour longer than necessary," answered the captain. An hour afterwards he departed from Raynham in a post-chaise. He left without having taken any farewell of Gertrude Eversleigh.
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