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She had repeated in an unsteady voice, and with a sudden change in her color to paleness the strange question put to me by Gloody. In his case I had failed to trace the motive. I tried to discover it now. "Tell me why I ought to break my engagement," I said. "Remember what I told you at the spring," she answered. "You are deceived by a false friend who lies to you and hates you."
"Are you coming to drink tea with my master?" "Of course, I am coming! Mr. Gloody, do you know that you rather surprise me?" "I hope no offence, sir." "Nonsense! It seems odd, my good fellow, that your master shouldn't have told you I was coming to drink tea with him. Isn't it your business to get the things ready?"
"I don't like to think of my father being left without a creature to take care of him. Gloody is so good and so true; and they always get on well together. If you have nothing better in view for him ?" "My dear, I have nothing half so good in view; and Gloody, I am sure, will think so too."
She was pledged to secrecy, under penalty of ruining the man who was trying to save me; and to her presence of mind was trusted the whole responsibility of preserving my life. What a situation for a girl of eighteen! "We made it out between us, sir, in two ways," Gloody proceeded. "First and foremost, she was to invite herself to tea. And, being at the table, she was to watch my master.
I privately resolved to insure a favorable reception for the poor fellow, by making him the miller's partner. Bank notes in Toller's pocket! What a place reserved for Gloody in Toller's estimation! But I confess that Cristel's allusion to a possible accident rather oppressed my mind, situated as we were at that time. What we talked of next has slipped from my memory.
The delay of dressing was more than I had patience to encounter. Unless I was completely mistaken, here was the very person whom I wanted to enlighten me. Gloody showed himself at the door, with a face ominously wretched, as well as ugly. I instantly thought of Cristel. "If you bring me bad news," I said, "don't keep me waiting for it." "It's nothing that need trouble You, sir.
I directed the lawyer to take no steps whatever in the matter, and to pay the poor old fellow's funeral expenses, on my account. He had died intestate. The law took care of his money until his daughter appeared; and the mill, being my property, I gave to Toller's surviving partner our good Gloody. And what did I do next?
The first lucky accident of the poor fellow's life had been, literally, the discovery of him by his present master. This event interested me. I said I should like to hear how it had happened. Gloody modestly described himself as "one of the starving lot, sir, that looks out for small errands. I got my first dinner for three days, by carrying a gentleman's portmanteau for him.
Gloody had done his best to prepare Cristel for the terrible confidence which he had determined to repose in her, and had not succeeded. What the poor girl must have suffered, I could but too readily understand, on recalling the startling changes in her look and manner when we met at the river-margin of the wood.
After what I had myself seen, and what Gloody had told me, could I hope to match my penetration, or the penetration of any person about me whom I could trust, against the fathomless cunning, the Satanic wickedness, of the villain who was still an inmate with Cristel, under her father's roof? I have spoken of his fathomless cunning, and his Satanic wickedness.
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