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Miles Handford and Fayre-Michell followed the church party in the rear, and relieved their minds by criticizing Mr. Travers. "Officious ass!" said the stout man. "A typical touch that black tie! A decent-minded person would have felt this appalling tragedy far too much to think of such a trifle. I hope I shall never see the brute again."
"Give him a free hand all the same with servants and everybody. I should ask him to come as your guest, then nobody need know who he is, and he can pursue his investigations the more freely." Felix Fayre-Michell made this suggestion after luncheon was ended, and Masters and Fred Caunter had left the room. Then the conversation showed signs of drifting back to sentimentality.
"Sorry," said Colonel Vane, a man without pride. "I didn't know you believed in 'em, Sir Walter." "Most emphatically I believe in them." "So do I," declared Ernest Travers. "Nay, so does my wife for the best possible reason. A friend of hers actually saw one." Mr. Fayre-Michell spoke. "Spiritualism and spirits are two quite different things," he said.
Something of the strange possession of his mind already appeared, in curious hints that puzzled Sir Walter; but it was not until after the post-mortem examination and inquest that his extraordinary views were elaborated. Millicent Fayre-Michell and her uncle were the first to depart on the following day. The girl harbored a grievance.
When eleven sounded, the master rose; but to-night he was delayed. Tom May spoke. "Fayre-Michell has never heard the ghost story, governor," he said, "and Mr. Travers badly wants another drink. If he doesn't have one, he won't sleep all night. He's done ten men's work to-day." Mr. Fayre-Michell spoke. "I didn't know you had a ghost, Sir Walter.
Some discovered that their own physical bodies were upset, too, and felt surprised at the depth of their emotions. "It isn't as if it were natural," Felix Fayre-Michell persisted. "Don't imagine that for a moment." "It's too creepy I can't believe it," declared his niece. She was incapable of suffering much for anybody, and her excitement had a flavour not wholly bitter.
Then they returned to the dead, and the master of Chadlands urged those standing on the stairs and in the corridor to go back to their breakfast and their duties. "You can do no good," he said. "I will only ask Vane to help us." Fayre-Michell spoke, while the colonel came forward. "Forgive me, Sir Walter, but if it is anything psychical, I ask, as a member "
"And they make confusion worse confounded by saying that evil spirits pretend sometimes to hoodwink us by posing as good spirits. Now, that's going too far," said Henry Lennox. "But your own ghost, Sir Walter?" asked Fayre-Michell. "It is a curious fact that most really ancient houses have some such addition. Is it a family spectre? Is it fairly well authenticated?
"Probably we should not have acted so. I think we should have hidden our sufferings and faced our duty; but perhaps we are exceptional. I dare say Mrs. May will write and express regret and gratitude later. We must allow for her youth and sorrow." Mr. Fayre-Michell rather prided himself on the charity of this conclusion. When Mr. and Mrs. Travers departed, Sir Walter bade them farewell.
"It seems too grotesque marching to church like a lot of children, because he tells us to do so," murmured Fayre-Michell. "I don't want to go. I only want distraction. In fact, I don't think I shall go," added Mr. Handford. But a woman urged him to do so. "Sir Walter would like it," she said.
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