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But there were other elements besides in her tumult of feeling. The tone, the taunting look, with which Melrose had spoken of Faversham's possible marriage did he, did all the world know, that Harry had been played with and jilted? For that, in plain English, was what it came to. Her heart burnt with anger with a desire to punish. The car passed out of the lodge gates.
"Mostly?" repeated Lydia. "I don't know whether I'd better go on. Faversham's a friend of yours." Tatham looked down upon her, his blunt features reddening. "Not so much a friend that I can't hear the truth about him," said Lydia, smiling rather faintly. "What do you accuse him of?" He hesitated a moment; then the inner heat gathered, and flashed out.
Faversham's expression relaxed. He let himself slide down upon his pillows. "By George! if I'd lost them." Melrose studied him closely. "They're all right. What do you know about gems?" "Only what Uncle Mackworth taught me. We were great pals. He was my guardian. I lived with him in the holidays after my parents died. I knew all his gems. And now he's left them to me." "Where are the rest?"
Not that he cared whether she possessed any money or not, but the absence of it might be a deplorable temptation. Could it be possible that she had been deliberately awaiting Mark's return, postponing her answer to the older man until she convinced herself there was not a chance of securing the younger? An infuriating suspicion, but still not capable of causing Colonel Faversham's withdrawal.
Fresh remonstrance and refusal followed on the part both of husband and wife. Fresh determination also on the part of the doctor, seconded by the threatening looks and words of Faversham's bearers, stout Cumbria labourers, to whom the storming of the Tower was clearly a business they enjoyed. At last the old couple, bitterly protesting, gave way, and the procession entered.
"I can't help seeing," Mark continued, "that I am responsible in a way. If I hadn't mentioned her name at Phoebe's that evening I was late for dinner you would never have gone to Golfney Place, and Bridget would never have crossed Colonel Faversham's path." "How devoutly I wish she hadn't," said Carrissima. "But what can anybody do? It is a day after the fair.
Captain Plessy had not been in the cellar at the time when the landlord had seemed to hear the chatter of a man's teeth. The dinner was not a pronounced success, in spite of Faversham's avoidance of any awkward topic. They sat at the long table in the big, desolate and shabby room, lighted only by a couple of tallow candles set up in their candlesticks upon the cloth.
Thence he marched with his rude levies to Keynsham, and after a defeat and a vain visit to Bath he returned to the "George" and won a victory over Faversham's advanced guard. You can still see the Monmouth room in the inn with its fine fire-place.
The man who led him pointed out the picture, the chair, the marks of the muddy soles on the wainscotting, and along the gallery reconstructing the murder, in low tones, as though the dead man still lay there. A hideous oppression indeed hung over the house. Melrose's ghost held it. The police officer knocked at Faversham's door. "Would Mr. Faversham receive Lord Tatham?"
And mingled with such experience, there had been now for months the intoxicating sense that everything in that marvellous house was potentially his Claude Faversham's, and would all some day come into his hands, the hands of a man specially prepared by education and early circumstance to enjoy, to appreciate. And the estate.
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