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Updated: June 6, 2025
Don't you think we ought to go and separate Sir Beverley and Piers? What an old pepper-pot he is!" "Piers isn't much better," remarked the man she had called Dick. His proper appellation was Richard Guyes, but his friends never stood on ceremony with him. The girl laughed again inconsequently. She was spoken of by some as the spoilt beauty of the county.
"It'll be the laugh of the county," the man said, "but, egad, I like her pluck." And in answer the girl laughed again, a careless, merry laugh. "Yes, I wonder who she is. A friend of Piers' apparently. Did you see what a stiff fury he was in?" "It was a fairly stiff flogging," remarked Guyes. "Ye gods! I wonder how he stood it." "Oh, Piers can stand anything," said Ina unconcernedly.
And then one afternoon of brilliant autumn she was shopping with Gracie in Wardenhurst, and came face to face with Ina Guyes. Dick Guyes had gone into the Artillery, and Ina had returned to her father's house. She and Avery had not met since Ina's wedding day more than a year before; but their recognition was mutual and instant.
Avery did not know he was there until it was over. But he came forward then and shook hands with them both and wished them happiness. He and young Mr. Guyes, who supported Piers, were the only two present besides the Eveshams' family solicitor from Wardenhurst and ourselves. I gave the dear girl away," said Mrs. Lorimer with gentle pride.
Yes, take 'em home!" Barchard made a savage cut at two of the hounds who were scratching and whimpering at a tiny chink in the boarding, and with surly threats collected the pack and moved off. The rest of the field melted away into the deepening dusk. Ina and Dick Guyes were among the last to go. They moved off side by side.
Piers, in the foremost of the crowd, threw a handful straight into her lap as the car started, but only he and Dick Guyes saw her gather it up with sudden energy and fling it back in his face. Piers dropped off the step laughing. "Ye gods! What fun for Dick Guyes!" he said. A hand grasped his shoulder, and he turned and saw Lennox Tudor. "Hullo!" he said, sharply freeing himself.
"Piers, if I'm a prying cat, you're a hard-mouthed mule! There! Why can't you admit that you're in love with her?" Piers faced her with no sign of surprise. "Why don't you tell me that you're in love with Guyes?" he said. "Because it wouldn't be true!" She flung back her answer with a laugh that sounded unaccountably bitter. "I have yet to meet the man who is worth the trouble."
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