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Vesey got up from his lounging position more slowly and stiffly than Helmsley had done. Some ten years younger as he was, he was evidently less active. "Well," he said, as he squared his shoulders and drew himself erect, "we are no nearer a settlement of what I consider a most urgent and important affair than when we began our conversation." Helmsley shrugged his shoulders.
If you'll step into the room yonder, I'll send Prue with your breakfast." She turned her back upon him, and with a shrill call of "Prue! Prue!" affected to be too busy to continue the conversation. Helmsley, therefore, went as she bade him into the common room, which at this hour was quite empty.
It was wonderful to see how she rejoiced at this proposition, the eager delight with which she contemplated the immediate disposal of the wealth she had not as yet touched, to the man she loved best in the world and the swift change in her manner from depression to joy, when Sir Francis, just to put her mind at ease, drafted a concise form of Will for her in his own handwriting, in which form she, with the same precision as that of David Helmsley, left "everything of which she died possessed, absolutely and unconditionally," to her promised husband.
Helmsley drew further back into the corner where he sat, and restrained the little dog Charlie from perking its inquisitive head out too far, lest its beauty should attract undesirable attention. His nervous misgivings concerning the owner of the motor-car had not been entirely without foundation, for both Reginald Wrotham and James Brookfield were well known to him.
An expressive glance flashed from Reay's eyes, a glance which Helmsley caught and understood in all its eloquent meaning. "We had quite a touching little sermon this morning," she went on, untying her bonnet strings, and taking off that unassuming head-gear "It was just a homely simple, kind talk.
The money in bank notes, enclosed with the testator's last Will and Testament, was to be given to Mary for her own immediate use, and then came the following earnest request; "I desire that the sum of Half-a-crown, made up of coppers and one sixpence, which will be found with these effects, shall be enclosed in a casket of gold and inscribed with the words 'The "surprise gift" collected by "Tom o' the Gleam" for David Helmsley, when as a tramp on the road he seemed to be in need of the charity and sympathy of his fellow men and which to him was
"That's all very well, but you're a doctor to me," said Helmsley "And you've been as much as any other doctor could possibly be, I'm sure. But you tell me I must sit quiet I don't see how I can do that. I was on the tramp till I broke down, and I must go on the tramp again, I can't be a burden on on " He broke off, unable to find words to express himself.
And the worst of it is that this same British people would have been kept in ignorance of the 'deal. They would actually have been paying their pennies to keep up the shares of a gang of unscrupulous rascals whose sole end and object was to get the British press into their power! Think of it!" "But did they succeed?" asked Helmsley. "No, they didn't. Somebody somewhere had a conscience.
The shuddering sorrow of that low rhythmic boom of the waters rising and falling fathoms deep under cliffs which the darkness veiled from view, awoke echoes from the higher hills around, and David Helmsley, lifting his eyes to the countless planet-worlds sprinkled thick as flowers in the patch of sky immediately above him, suddenly realised with a pang how near he was to death, how very near to that final drop into the unknown where the soul of man is destined to find All or Nothing!
"Her time for vanity is past," said Helmsley, sententiously "She is an old maid." "Old maid be shot!" exclaimed Angus, impetuously "By Jove! Any man might be proud to marry her!" A keen, sharp glance, as incisive as any that ever flashed up and down the lines of a business ledger, gleamed from under Helmsley's fuzzy brows. "Would you?" he asked. "Would I marry her?"
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