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You see it was a great mistake not to prepare the child for it sooner, and tell her just when Tedham would be out, so that if she wanted to see him she could. She thinks she ought to have been there at the prison waiting to speak to him the first one. I thought it was a mistake to have her away, and I guess that's the way Mrs. Hasketh looks at it herself, now."
We will go over to Somerville to-morrow afternoon. We had better not lose any time." "To-morrow is Sunday." "So much the better. They will be sure to be at home, if they're there at all, yet." She said they, but I knew that she did not expect poor old Hasketh really to count in the matter, any more than she expected me to do so.
"I had a presentiment when the children said there was some strange-looking man here, asking for you, and that they had told him where to find you. I couldn't help feeling a little uneasy about it. What did he want with you, Basil?" "Well, he wanted to know where his daughter was." "You didn't tell him!" "I didn't know. Then he wanted me to go to Mrs. Hasketh and find out."
"I can't do that, Tedham," I answered, not unkindly, I hope. "I know what you mean, and I assure you that it wouldn't be the least use. It's because I feel so sure that my wife wouldn't like my going to see Mrs. Hasketh, that I " "Yes, I know that," said Tedham. "That is the reason why I should like to see Mrs. March. I believe that if I could see her, I could convince her."
If I could see her, and she did not cast me off, then I should know where I was. Or, if she did, I should. You understand that." "But, of course, there is another point of view." "My daughter's?" "Mrs. Hasketh's." "I don't care for Mrs. Hasketh. She did what she has done for the child's sake. It was the best thing for the child at the time the only thing; I know that.
I'm afraid," Hasketh continued, with the satisfaction men take in blaming their wives under the cover of sympathy, "that Mrs. Hasketh is going to feel it more and more, as time goes on, unless Tedham turns up. I was never in favor of trying to have the child forget him, or be separated from him in any way.
Hasketh did not refuse her share of it. She came forward, and probably made her husband come forward, in Tedham's behalf, and do what hopelessly could be done to defend him where there was really no defence, and the only thing to be attempted was to show circumstances that might perhaps tend to the mitigation of his sentence. I do not think they did.
It would have been far simpler if Mrs. Hasketh had been up and down with us as Tedham's emissaries, and refused to tell us anything of his daughter, and left us to report to him that he must find her for himself if he found her at all. This was what we had both expected, and we had come prepared to take back that answer to Tedham, and discharge our whole duty towards him in its delivery.
"Is that the last you have heard from her?" I asked. Tedham nodded as he took the letter from me. "But surely you have heard something more about her in all this time?" my wife pursued. "Once from Mrs. Hasketh, to make me promise that I would leave the child to her altogether, and not write to her, or ask to see her.
We were at Quebec." "It shows what a rush our life is," I philosophized, with the implication that Hasketh and I had been old friends, and I ought to have noticed that I had not met him during the time of his absence. The fact was we had never come so near intimacy as when we exchanged confidences concerning the severity of Tedham's sentence in coming out of the court-room together.
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