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Forrester came into the flat a day or two later and found Peg there alone. He was tired and depressed, and answered her cheery greeting shortly. She knew that his eyes wandered round the room in search of his wife, though he asked no questions, and Peg said: "Faith's gone out. She'll be in directly." She paused, then added: "I didn't go with her, because I wanted to speak to you alone!"
"But twelve years ago Mary fell ill of pneumonia dangerously and a nurse had to be summoned in haste, since her own faithful attendant, Jane Bond, who is still with us, could not attend her both day and night. A telegram to the Nurses' Institute brought Mrs. Gilbert Forrester 'Nurse Forrester, as she preferred to be called. She was a little bit of a thing, but most attractive and capable.
"By no means," said Forrester, "that path leads to the Lower Ford; here is the shivered beech, which the colonel described to me." "Yes, sir," said Telie, hurriedly; "it is the mark; they call it the Crooked Finger-post." "And a crooked road it is like to lead us, if we follow it," said Roland. "It leads to the Lower Ford, and is not therefore our road. I remember the Colonel's direction."
There was some plot afoot to injure Forrester, she was sure. She questioned her stepfather, but he would admit nothing, and her mother was evidently too afraid to say anything, even if she had the knowledge. Peg went back to Hampstead, sick with fear, though she tried hard to conquer it. Ben would never be so foolish. She knew he was wild, but even he would surely hesitate at violence.
Those with whom they are engaged may be willing to take them prisoners, but they will fight with terrible desperation, incited by Sir Godfrey's example, and no one can say how the attack will end." "Yes, father, I see," said Fred, sadly, "but could you not persuade General Hedley to give up the attack?" Colonel Forrester was silent for a few moments, and then said sadly "No."
But later, when Forrester had gone from the room, she darted across to where he had thrown his coat down on a chair, and snatching it up, pressed her lips to it. "If you cared for me, as you do for her," she said, in a fierce little whisper, and then bitterly: "Oh, she's a fool a blind little fool!"
Secretary, I'll go crazy!" The veins stood up on Enoch's forehead, and he said, with a cold vehemence that made Abbott recoil, "If Miss Allen's name is brought up with mine in that manner again, I shall kill Brown." Charley moistened his lips. "Well, but after all, Mr. Huntingdon, Harden and Forrester are just a couple of unknown chaps. Is your championing them worth the risk to Miss Allen?"
Guy left England the same evening, and descended like a thunder-clap on the joyous little ménage in the Rue de la Madeleine, where Forrester and his bride were still fluttering their wings in the honeymoon-shine of post-nuptial spring. They were miraculously happy, those two. Indeed, they seemed to have only one taste between them, and that was Charley's.
The four young ladies were about thirty, varying up from thirty to thirty-five. They were fair-haired, healthy young women, with good common-sense, not beautiful, though very like their father. "And now I must introduce you to Miss Forrester, Kattie Forrester," said Mr Blake, who was beginning to think that his own young lady was being left out in the cold. "Yes, indeed," said Mr Hall.
"Not a second Miss Forrester but somebody else." "Something inferior?" "Well yes; inferior to my Miss Forrester, certainly." "You are the most conceited young man that I ever came across," said the young lady herself. "And I am not inclined to put up with anything that is very inferior," said John Gordon. He could not help his eye from glancing for a moment round upon Mary Lawrie.
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