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You do not imagine, because I trust in God, and do not fear what the small-pox can do to me, I would therefore neglect any necessary preventive! That would be to tempt God: means as well as results are his. They are a way of giving us a share in his work." "If I should have imagined such neglect possible, would not yesterday go far to justify me?" said lord Gartley.
"No one but major Marvel," she answered, and opened the door of the drawing-room. As she opened it, she woke to the consciousness that she was very cross, and in a mood to make her unfair to Gartley: the moment she had closed it, she turned to him and said, "Forgive me, Gartley; I am in trouble; we are all in trouble. When I have told you about it, I shall be more at ease."
He buried his wife with unfeigned regret for he had been sincerely attached to her in his absent-minded way and sent Lucy to a Hampstead boarding school. After an interview with his late wife's lawyer to see that the income was safe, he sought for a house in the country, and quickly discovered Gartley Grange, which no one would take because of its isolation.
Lord Gartley could sing, lord Gartley could play, lord Gartley understood the technicalities of music; Christopher could neither play nor sing at least anything more than a common psalm-tune to lead the groans of his poor and understood nothing of music; but there was in him a whole sea of musical delight, to be set in motion by the enchantress who knew the spell!
Of course she might have found out Sidney's scheme to run away with the jewels, and so would have claimed her share. But if she had been in Pierside on that evening and her presence in Gartley had been sworn to by three or four cronies she would have guessed who had strangled her boy. If so, not all the jewels in the world would have prevented her denouncing the criminal.
"Do you wish them to be caught?" asked Random abruptly. "Not the Professor. For Miss Lucy's sake I hope he will escape; but I trust that the savage who killed these two unfortunate people will be brought to the gallows." "So do I," said Random. "Well, Don Pedro, it seems to me that your task in Gartley is ended. All you have to do is to wait for the inquest and see Mrs. Jasher buried, poor soul!
"So I told the Professor," said Hope, returning to the armchair near the fire, "and I mentioned that Don Pedro had induced the skipper to write out a full account of the theft of the mummy from Lima thirty years ago. I also said that the signed paper would be handed in at the Gartley jetty when The Firefly came down stream to-morrow night." "Humph! And what did Braddock say to that?"
There was only one really palatial mansion in Gartley, and that was the ancient Georgian house known as the Pyramids. Lucy's step-father had given the place this eccentric name on taking up his abode there some ten years previously. Before that time the dwelling had been occupied by the Lord of the Manor and his family.
It was one thing to die that a fellow-creature might have all things good! another to live a living death that he might persist in the pride of life! She could not throw God's life to the service of the stupid Satan! It was a sad breakdown to the hopes that had clustered about Gartley! But did she not deserve it?
There less extensive forts were concealed amidst trees and masked by turf embankments, to watch and guard the golden argosies of London commerce. Lucy, always impressionable, shivered with her hand in that of Archie's, as she stared at the landscape, melancholy even in the brilliant sunshine. "I should hate to live in Gartley Fort," said she abruptly. "One might as well be in jail."
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