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Leaving Pablo in charge till Oswald came from the stables, Edward and Humphrey then went into the cottage, where they found a very social party; Patience Heatherstone having succeeded in making great friends with the other three girls, and the Intendant, to Edward's surprise, laughing and joking with them.
Young Heatherstone looked at me with flashing eyes. "This may be all according to occult laws," he cried, "but we shall see what the laws of England have to say upon it. I suppose a chela may be hanged as well as any other man. It may not be too late yet to run them down. Here, good dog, good dog-here!" He pulled the hound over and set it on the track of the three men.
I trust that my readers will not set me down as an inquisitive busybody when I say that as the days and weeks went by I found my attention and my thoughts more and more attracted to General Heatherstone and the mystery which surrounded him. It was in vain that I endeavoured by hard work and a strict attention to the laird's affairs to direct my mind into some more healthy channel.
"What a sweet girl that Patience Heatherstone is! I think I never saw such an enchanting smile!" Edward thought of the smile she gave him when they parted but an hour ago, and agreed with Humphrey, but he replied "Why, brother, you are really in love with the intendant's daughter."
I knew, before I came down here as Intendant, where his place of concealment was, and have been most anxious for his safety." "Excuse me, Mr Heatherstone, but each day I find more to make me like you than I did the day before: at first I felt most inimical; now I only wonder how you can be leagued with the party you now are." "Edward Armitage, I will now answer for myself and thousands more.
Mr Langton bowed and requested Edward to sit down; and after Edward had taken a chair, he then seated himself and opened the letter. "You are right welcome, Master Armitage," said Mr Langton; "I find that, young as you appear to be, you are in the whole confidence of our mutual friend Mr Heatherstone.
"Welcome, Oswald," said Edward. "And welcome to you also, my fine lad," replied Oswald. "I have been hard questioned about you since we parted first by the Roundhead Heatherstone, who plied me in all manner of ways to find out whether you are what you assert, the grandson of Jacob or some other person.
He cried, with a great, roaring oath. "I'd have done it years ago if the Rooshians had been game to take it up. Skobeloff was the best of the bunch, but he's been snuffed out. However, that's neither here nor there. What I want to ask you is whether you've ever heard anything in this quarter of a man called Heatherstone, the same who used to be colonel of the 41st Bengalis?
How wears our good friend Heatherstone and his daughter?" "Quite well, sir." "And he told me in one of his former letters that he had the daughter of our poor friend Ratcliffe with him. Is it not so?" "It is, Master Langton; and a gentle, pretty child as you would wish to see." "When did you arrive in London?" "Yesterday evening, sir." "And do you purpose any stay?"
Edward continued at the Intendant's, and gave great satisfaction to Mr Heatherstone. He passed his time very agreeably, sometimes going out to shoot deer with Oswald, and often supplying venison to his brother and sisters.
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