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Updated: May 3, 2025
Yet the relief of solitude after the mysteries of the last few days was in itself a thing to be thankful for. For nine days I spoke with no one save Grooton. For an hour every afternoon, and for rather longer at night, I walked on the cliffs or the sands. Here on these lonely stretches of empty land I met no one, saw no living thing save the seagulls.
"You cannot go back alone," I said, doubtfully, as I opened the door. "I have a servant waiting close by," she answered, "and I am not at all afraid. Think over what I have said to you and good-bye." She drew her cloak around her and flitted away into the darkness. Grooton returned a few minutes later from the village. He begged the favour of a few words with me.
Besides, upon the face of it, the thing is terribly serious." "You have a plan," I said. "I have," Lord Chelsford answered calmly. "You remember Grooton?" "Certainly! He was a servant at Braster." "And the very faithful servant of his country also," Lord Chelsford remarked. "You know, I believe, that he was a secret service man. He is entirely safe, and I have sent for him.
I myself, a little dizzy and hot-eyed, walked across the park an hour after dawn, and flung myself upon my bed with a deep sigh of relief. Before I had closed my eyes, however, Grooton appeared with apologies for his dishabille. "I have been up to the house twice, sir," he said, "but they would not let me see you or even send in a message.
"Boy," he said, "have you any wine?" "The Duke sent me some claret," I answered. "Will that do?" I summoned Grooton and ordered the wine and some biscuits. Ray was a man who ate and drunk sparingly. Yet he filled a tumbler and drank it straight off. "You and I," he remarked, "are the only two who sat the whole show out. It was a grind, wasn't it?"
I put down the paper, and my cheeks were flushed with enthusiasm. I think that if the Duke had been there at that moment I could have kissed his hand. I passed with much less interest to the letter which Grooton had brought in with the paper.
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