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But when they had last taken their departure from Folking, no one had entertained any idea of any peculiar relations between the nephew and the uncle. It was not till a year or two more had run by, that Mr. Daniel Caldigate thought of making his nephew George the heir to the property. The property indeed was entailed upon John, as it had been entailed upon John's father.
Caldigate took for himself a house in Cambridge, whither he proposed to remove nothing but himself and his books, and promised to have Folking ready for his son and his son's bride on their return from their wedding tour. In all this Robert Bolton and the old squire acted together, the brother thinking that the position would suit his sister well.
Then there was an angry correspondence, ended at last by a request from Aunt Polly that there might be no further intercourse between Babington and Folking till after the trial. Caldigate, though he bore all this with an assured face, with but little outward sign of inward misgiving, suffered much, much even from the estrangement of those with whom he had hitherto been familiar.
Hester often goes to see her mother, but Mrs. Bolton has never been at Folking, and probably never will again visit that house. She is a woman whose heart is not capable of many changes, and who cannot readily give herself to new affections. But having once owned that John Caldigate is her daughter's husband, she now alleges no further doubt on the matter. She writes the words 'Mrs.
'Good-bye, Hester. God bless you, my child! 'You will not come to me to Folking? 'No. I will not go to Folking. 'I may come to you here? 'Oh yes; as often as you will, and for as long as you will. 'I cannot stay away from home without him, you know, said the young wife. 'As often as you will, and for as long as you will, the mother said again, repeating the words with emphasis.
Bolton, who was one of the very few friends to whom his father was still attached. Mr. Bolton was a banker, living close to Cambridge, an old man now, with four sons and one daughter; and to his house John Caldigate was going in order that he might there discuss with Mr. Bolton certain propositions which had been made between him and his father respecting the Folking property.
They were both determined that if possible Crinkett and the woman should be kept in the country. In these days the old Squire made many changes in his residence, vacillating between his house in Cambridge and the house at Folking.
And then he came across allusions to the condition of the poor lady at Folking. What could the condition of the lady at Folking have to do with the matter? Though the poor lady at Folking should die in her sorrow, that could not alter the facts as they had occurred in Australia! It was not for him, or for the Secretary of State, to endeavour to make things pleasant all round here in England.
But what he said could be of no avail. And then men looked at him as he disappeared with the jailers down the steps leading to regions below, and away to his prison, and they knew that he would no more be seen or heard of for two years. He had vanished. But there was the lady who was not his wife out at Folking, the lady whom the jury had declared not to be his wife. What would become of her?
And if she were no longer at Folking, would she come back to him? He was sure, nearly sure, that he could not claim her as his wife. And were she still minded to share her future lot with him, in what way should he treat her?
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