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He was surprised to find himself shaking hands with a pleasant, unassuming woman of distinct good looks. Hillyard was presented to Dennis and Miranda Brown, a young couple two years married, and to Mr. Harold Jupp, a man of Hillyard's age. Harold Jupp was a queer-looking person with a long, thin, brown face, and a straight, wide mouth too close to a small pointed chin.
Terrified, she telephoned for Dr. Hillyard, and received her at the door with a white face. It was a Sunday morning, and McEwan had just dropped in with some chrysanthemums from the Farradays' greenhouse. Finding Mary disturbed he had not remained, and was leaving the house as the doctor drove up. Dr. Hillyard's first words were reassuring.
A Socialist at a Public Dinner who refused to honour the Royal Toast could only have scandalised the chairman by a few degrees more than Hillyard's indifference did now. "I beg your pardon," said Hillyard with humility. "I repair my error now. It was due to amazement." "Amazement!" Colin Rayne repeated, as Hillyard drained his glass. "Yes. For I know the man."
Across her shoulder Hillyard looked into a broad room, where three other girls sat at desks, and against one wall stood a great bureau with many tiny drawers like pigeon-holes. Several of these drawers stood open and disclosed cards standing on their edges and packed against each other. Hillyard's hopes revived.
But he caught Martin Hillyard's eye, and recovered his more becoming despondency. Harry Luttrell came in as the baronet settled once more to his task. He laid a shining key upon the table and said: "I found this upon the lawn. It looked as if it might be the key of Mrs. Croyle's room." It was undoubtedly the key of a door. "We'll find out," said the baronet.
But his eyes went watchfully to Hillyard's face, and he seemed to shut suddenly all expression out of his own. "Hardiman introduced me to a friend of yours." Luttrell nodded. "Mrs. Croyle?" "Yes." "She was well?" "In health, yes!" "I am very glad." Unexpectedly some feeling of relief had made itself audible in Luttrell's voice.
Now the nurse was here, a tall, grave-eyed Canadian girl, quiet of speech, silent in every movement. Mary had wondered if she ought to go into Dr. Hillyard's hospital, and was infinitely relieved to have her assurance that it was unnecessary. She wanted her baby to be born here in the country, in the sweet place she had prepared for it, surrounded by those she loved.
I have always been sure of it, but I used to be afraid that the opportunity would come while I was still chained to the handles of the barrow." Hillyard's life, though within a short time its vicissitudes had been many and most divergent, had probably not been as strange as he imagined it to be. He looked back upon it with too intense an interest to be its impartial judge.
"Why should I have missed one of them? It was my business not to." José Medina flung up his hands. "I will not argue with you. We are not made of the same earth." Hillyard's face changed to gentleness. "Pretty nearly, my friend," he said, and he laid a hand on José Medina's shoulder. "For we are good friends such good friends that I do not scruple to drag you into the same perils as myself."
Jenny Prask, she was called, and she spoke with just a touch of pleasant Sussex drawl. "Mrs. Croyle has not been sleeping well, and she looked for a good night's rest in country air." The maid was so healthful in her appearance, so reasonable in her argument, that Hillyard's terrors, fostered by solitude, began to lose their vivid colours. "I understand that," he stammered. "Yet, Jenny "
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