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"And now," said Celia, after a while, "I must be going, Lady Gridborough. I have been away quite a long time." "You must come again," said the old lady. "Do you think," said Celia, hesitatingly, as she slipped on her jacket, "that the young woman, Susie, as you call her, would let me go to see her sometimes? I should like to."
"Not a bit," replied Lady Gridborough; "but I might have been, for I was mixed up with the cart in some extraordinary fashion. I don't know what might have happened if it hadn't been for that young man there. He appeared on the scene as if he had dropped from the clouds; he disentangled me somehow, set the cart up again, and is now trying to persuade that fool of a pony that this isn't a circus."
That morning, Derrick, who had slept soundly, as your happy lover should sleep, rose and, leaving the inn, had sauntered along the road until he came to the gate where Lady Gridborough had seen him and Celia. Naturally enough, he passed into the wood; of course, taking the path on which he had walked with Celia.
I might have known that you couldn't be so bad, so wicked as they all said! Will you forgive me? Oh, do say you'll forgive me for so cruelly misjudging you." Derrick took the fat hand and looked, with a grave smile of more than forgiveness, at the good-natured, agitated face. "Don't say any more, Lady Gridborough," he said. "It was my fault.
"I am sure there were," said Derrick, warmly; and he wrung Reggie's hand. "I congratulate you both." "But how about this dreadful business of the robbery at the Hall?" said Lady Gridborough, suddenly growing pale. "So far as my son is concerned, madam," said Mr.
It was resting on one ear; and Celia, laughingly, but gently, put it straight. "I was going into the village," said Lady Gridborough; "but I suppose I'd better go home." "Yes, yes; of course you had!" said Celia. "You must be very much shaken, if you are not actually hurt." "Very well, then," said her ladyship. "Get in, my dear. And you, too, Mr.
"One angel the less in England," said Reggie, with a sigh. "Well, you leave it all to me. I'll fix it for you, as the Americans say. By the way, do you know my friend, Lady Gridborough?" "I did, but I don't," said Derrick, shortly. "At least, she doesn't know me now as you saw. No, I can't tell you. Confound it all, I'm like a man in a beastly novel, a man 'with a secret, a mystery."
"Oh, an alias, of course; yes, I'm not surprised that he should be ashamed of his own name. But, Celia, Celia Grant oh, it is too sad! I must tell her, warn her." "My dear Lady Gridborough," said Reggie, smoothly, "I'm going to ask you a great favour." "What is it?" said Lady Gridborough, glancing over her shoulder at Derrick and Celia in a half-fearsome way.
For an instant Lady Gridborough looked slightly disappointed; but it was for an instant only. "Well, he's a plucky young man all the same, my dear," she said. "He really did show great presence of mind, and has been awfully nice throughout the whole business. Fancy your meeting here in this way! What is his name?"
You don't happen to know whether a nice little murder I could sleuth down has been committed here?" "I'm afraid there hasn't," replied Celia, laughing. "Rather a pity, isn't it? Never mind! Oh, are you going?" "Yes, I must go," said Celia. "I won't disturb Lady Gridborough. Will you say good-bye to her for me?" "Oh, but I'm coming with you," he said, decidedly.
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