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Updated: June 20, 2025
To this Mecca of republics, as the social and political center of the western hemisphere, came the great thinkers, scientists, artists, orators and statesmen of the world. Commandingly situated on Columbia Heights, overlooking this surpassingly beautiful city, was Fenwick Hall, the home of Fern Fenwick.
Janet Fenwick wrote of it in her letters as of a thing almost fixed; and Aunt Sarah certainly lived as though she expected it. And yet Mary was very nearly sure that it could not be so. Would it not be better that she should write to Mr. Gilmore at once, and not wait till the expiration of the weary six months which he had specified as the time at the end of which he might renew his proposals?
Lilian was in the room, too, and my astonishment was increased, when she said to me with a singular smile, vague but tranquil: 'I know all about Allen Fenwick; Mr. Margrave has told me all. He is a friend of Allen's. He says there is no cause for fear. Mr. Margrave then apologized to me for his intrusion in a caressing, kindly manner, as if one of the family.
However, of course it would all come right. All the interesting tales of one's childhood began that way with a cruel father, and a rebellious son. But they came to magnificent ends, notwithstanding with sacks of gold and a princess. Diffident, yet smiling, she drew conclusions. 'So, you see, you'll make money you'll be an R.A. you'll marry and Mr. Fenwick will nurse the grandchildren.
Cuningham was talking as though the old relation between him and Richard Watson were still intact; while Fenwick knew well how thin and superficial the bond had grown. 'I shall go to-day, he said, rather shortly. 'I have two or three things to do this morning, but there'll be time before my rehearsal this afternoon. 'Your rehearsal? Cuningham looked amiably curious.
It was Ellie Fenwick!" I sat perfectly still, grasping my cold little ice-cream plate in one hand, not hearing anything more, not even seeming to think, until I heard Jack Tracy's voice beside me. "Good Heavens! what's the matter?" And then, calling out in absurd alarm, "Don't faint, don't faint!"
He struck in presently with the dry remark that artists were not the only persons who made imprudent marriages. Lord Findon sprang up at once, and changed the subject. His youngest son, the year before, had married the nurse who had pulled him through typhoid and was still in exile, and unforgiven. Meanwhile no one had noticed John Fenwick.
Then this afternoon after we'd settled my father I drove to Lincoln's Inn Fields. And I found them so excited just sending off a messenger to you. A letter had arrived by the afternoon post, an hour after you left the office. I have it here they trusted it to me. Oh, dear Mr. Fenwick, listen to me! They are on the track it's a real clue this time!
Fenwick told me that everything was going to the place that he had taken at Canterbury, but I don't believe that, because none of the boxes were labelled. Anyway, they have all gone, and I am instructed to remain here until I hear from Mr. Fenwick again."
Gilmore had pleaded very hard that a day might be fixed, and had almost succeeded. Mary Lowther, driven into a corner, had been able to give no reason why she should not fix a day, other than this, that Mr. Gilmore had promised her that she should not be hurried. "What do you mean?" Mrs. Fenwick had said, angrily.
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