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"You can pass me through the German lines?" she repeated. "You must possess extraordinary influence, sir, to be able to do that." Mr. Horace Holmcroft smiled. "I possess the influence that no one can resist," he answered "the influence of the Press. I am serving here as war correspondent of one of our great English newspapers. If I ask him, the commanding officer will grant you a pass.
"No name," she said, in a low voice. "My subscription is anonymous." As she replied, the library door opened. To her infinite relief to Julian's secret disappointment Lady Janet Roy and Horace Holmcroft entered the room together. "Julian!" exclaimed Lady Janet, holding up her hands in astonishment. He kissed his aunt on the cheek. "Your ladyship is looking charmingly." He gave his hand to Horace.
Horace observed signs of agitation in her, which he now noticed for the first time. His face darkened with an expression of sullen distrust and he took the chair in silence. THE narrative leaves Lady Janet and Horace Holmcroft together, and returns to Julian and Mercy in the library.
Horace pointed to the paper in her hand. "You can go where you like now," he said. "Shall I wait for you here or outside?" Mercy glanced distrustfully at Ignatius Wetzel. He was again absorbed in his endless examination of the body on the bed. If she left him alone with Mr. Holmcroft, there was no knowing what the hateful old man might not say of her.
'I don't want to be rude, but you're a dreadful embarrassment. Mr. Holmcroft won't tell you official secrets! 'If she would only behave! thought Madeline, looking on, 'I would tell her indeed I would at once. Colonel Innes detached himself from a group of men in mess dress as she appeared with the Worsleys, and let himself drift with the tide that brought them always together.
Holmcroft has engaged himself to marry me. I can't tell Lady Janet and Mr. Holmcroft to their faces that I have cheated them out of their love. But they shall know it, for all that. I can, and will, before I rest to-night, tell the whole truth to Mr. Julian Gray." Grace burst out laughing. "Aha!" she exclaimed, with a cynical outburst of gayety. "Now we have come to it at last!"
"I will advertise your name, and find the matron in that way." "Advertise in every newspaper in London. Do you think I gave a stranger like you the name I really bore in the Refuge? I gave you the name I assumed when I left England. No such person as Mercy Merrick is known to the matron. No such person is known to Mr. Holmcroft. He saw me at the French cottage while you were senseless on the bed.
"I see another letter on your lap. Is it my letter?" "Yes." "Have you read it?" "I have read it." "Have you seen Horace Holmcroft?" "Yes." "Have you told Horace Holmcroft " "Oh, Lady Janet " "Don't interrupt me. Have you told Horace Holmcroft what my letter positively forbade you to communicate, either to him or to any living creature? I want no protestations and excuses.
'Then, Captain Drake, I'm sorry' she carefully crossed out the three 'V.D.'s' 'I promised all the dances I had left after ten to Mr. Holmcroft. Most of the others I gave away at the gymkhana really. Why weren't you there? That Persian tutor again! I'm afraid you are working too hard. And what did the Rani do, Mr. Holmcroft? It's like the Arabian Nights, only with real jewels
Holmcroft being my Secretariat baa-lamb? 'If you adorn your guess with a little profanity, said Innes, acidly, 'you won't be far wrong. Mrs. Violet burst into a peal of laughter. 'Why, you old goose! she articulated, behind her handkerchief; 'he said that to ME. Innes laid down the 'Saturday Review'. 'To you! he repeated; 'Gordon said it to you! 'Rather! Mrs. Violet was still mirthful.
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