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Updated: June 29, 2025
Mostly it seemed a dry, uninteresting thing, a mere memorandum, where a single entry might cover a whole year. It was impossible for us to stop our work to read it then and there, or to do more than give it a cursory glance. We turned feverishly to those years that covered, as we figured, the period of the Hynds tragedy.
He did not fit in a gentler generation, and a mild life had no charm for him. Gossip buzzed with his name, even in a day when gentlemen were permitted to behave pretty much as they pleased. "Up to this time there had never been anything altogether unpardonable charged against him. But one fine morning the Hynds jewels were missing.
And after I have taken Hynds House, what of you? What do you get?" "I get out," I said briefly. And a horrid qualm came over me. Leave Hynds House, forever? Go away from Hyndsville, leaving this friendlier, pleasanter, happier life behind? "You are forgetting my training," I reminded him, trying to keep my voice steady. "I can always do what I did before I came here.
Poor dear little god, aren't you glad to get out of that grave and come back to the sun? Aren't you grateful, little god, that Sophy and I came to Hynds House?"
"Hard upon the heels of these two disasters came a third, the case of Jessamine Hynds. This Jessamine a highly gifted, imperious creature, proud as Lucifer, after the manner of the Hyndses was an orphan, reared in Hynds House. She was some several years older than her cousins, to whom she was greatly attached.
I must see with my own eyes those Chelsea figures on your drawing-room mantel, the luster and Washington jugs in the dining-room, and the cabinets in the hall. Sincerely yours, EMMELINE PHELPS-PARSONS. P.S. I hope it is really true that there is an Influence in Hynds House? I do so greatly long to come in contact with the Occult and the Unknown!
And ushered in by Queenasheeba, there stood Nicholas Jelnik with great gray Boris beside him, and beauty and glamour and romance upon him like a light. Miss Hopkins had seen him on the streets, but hadn't met him personally. I don't think she relished the fact that she had to come to Hynds House to do so.
She was sitting on my bed, kimonoed, slippered, and braided. And now she looked at me with a suddenly quivering chin. "Alicia," said I, "ever since I discovered that there's no mistake about that lawyer's letter that Hynds House is unaccountably, but undoubtedly mine and I've got to live in it if I want to keep it it has been borne in upon me that you are just about the worst file-clerk on earth.
Whatever his reasons for this may have been, and the town named several, the fact remains that Hynds House would never have been so beautiful, the restoration wouldn't have been so nearly perfect, had it not been for the critical taste of Mr. Jelnik.
Didn't he know that the Scarlett Witch had the eye of an eagle for the glitter of gold and would long since have discovered whatever of value had been in Hynds House? Why didn't he consult older members of the community, who could furnish him with immensely interesting side-lights on the Hyndses? Mr. Jelnik never explained. He didn't ask anybody anything.
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