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I was only in a bath-chair then; now, you see what I have come to." "I am deeply sorry." "When you came before," said Herresford, bluntly, "I liked the look of you, Miss Dora; and I said to myself that, if Dick was not a fool and blind, he would choose you for his wife." "Don't! Don't!" cried Dora, with a sudden catch in her voice. "I'm engaged to marry Mr. Ormsby."
You have heard the story garbled, no doubt how he presented to the bank two checks for small amounts which had been altered into large ones the checks signed by his grandfather, Mr. Herresford. Such an act would have been infamous, and, when I fully understood the charge, I knew it was false. The bank had been defrauded, certainly, but not by my son.
Interviews with Herresford were generally carried on in Trimmer's presence, but, although the old man frequently referred to Trimmer in his arguments and quarrels, the valet acutely avoided asserting himself beyond the bounds of the strictest decorum while visitors were present.
There, he wrote a letter to Herresford, reopening the matter of the seven thousand dollars, which had lain dormant all this time, true to the promise made to Dora. He had let the quarrel stand in abeyance in case of accidents.
If Herresford consented to add lie to lie, and to exonerate Dick by acknowledging the checks, all might yet be well. Now, when his wife came in, with flushed face and lips working in anger, he cried out, tremulously: "Well, Mary?" "It is useless, worse than useless!" she answered. "He is quite impossible, as I told you." "Then, he will not lend us the money?" "No, indeed, no.
Herresford, with superlative cunning, had struck the right chord. It only needed a little brusque advice to set her in open revolt. "Having decided not to marry him," continued the old man "you'll write him a letter now at once. There's pen and ink and paper on the desk. Write now, while your heart rings true; and you can tell him as well, if you like, that Mr.
Herresford. If it should come to a suit, there can only be one issue." "I will see father myself," observed Mrs. Swinton, with her teeth set and an ugly light in her eyes. "Mr. Jevons, you will come down to-morrow to see us, or next day?" "To-morrow, at your pleasure. I'll bring a copy of the will, and prepare an exact calculation of the amount of your claim. Good-morning, Mrs. Swinton.
I suppose the young man came here to see his grandfather and stole the checks." "No, he never came at least only once, and just for a moment. Then, his grandfather was so insulting that he only stayed a few minutes. That was when he came to say good-bye. But Mrs. Swinton came, trying to get money for the boy." "I must see Mr. Herresford about this."
"Father, curb your tongue," cried Dora, flashing out angrily. Her color was rising, and that determined little mouth, which had excited the admiration of Herresford, was set in a hard, straight line. The colonel was red in the face, and emphasizing his words with his clenched fists, as if he were threatening to strike. Dora was the first to recover her composure.
The trouble was once more money the bitterness of poverty, fresh-edged and keen. He must again, as always, appeal to his wife for help, and she would have to beg again from her father. The knowledge maddened him, for he had endured all that a man may endure at the hands of Herresford. The letter was short and emphatic: SIR, I am requested by my client, Mr. Yours truly, WILLIAM WISE.
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