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His mind, always active, was busier than usual as he watched the ripples roll away in endless succession from the sides of the Inverashiel which looked so strangely less white on closer inspection or followed the smooth soaring movements of the gulls that swooped and circled around her, as she puffed and panted on her way across the black, taciturn waters.
But I find the hills rather trying to my legs as time goes on, and I don't very often walk as far as I have to-day. Still charity, as they say, covers a multitude of miles, and I really thought it my duty to come and see how poor Mark was bearing up all alone at Inverashiel.
The Inverashiel would be due on her homeward trip in a couple of hours' time, and meanwhile he had other business that must be attended to. He went first to the post office, where he registered and posted to Scotland Yard a packet he had brought with him.
"Are you employed on the Inverashiel estate?" he asked civilly. "I'm Duncan McGregor, his lordship's head keeper," was the reply, given in the cold tones of one accosted by an intruder. Gimblet hastened to introduce himself and to explain his presence, and McGregor condescended to thaw.
"Come along," said Lord Ashiel, as he strolled up to them with a bird he had been looking for, "we're going on now to the next drive," and they started off down the hillside, wading deep through the heather to the track. Juliet had been nearly a week at Inverashiel.
As I stood there a stone must have come down from the heights above. I did not see it, and the noise of the waterfall deadened any sound of its descent, but suddenly I felt a heavy blow between the shoulders, and I must have tumbled forward into the pool below. "The next thing I remember was looking up into the anxious friendly face of Andrew Campbell, one of the ghillies at Inverashiel.
But he shouldn't like me to have anything to do with them, or the boys either, and he must get them away from Inverashiel as soon as he could. In the meantime they were in a safe place where no one would find them, and he would write to you that night and tell you how to look for them, just on the chance that something should happen before he could send them off.
Not, in fact, till the day before she arrived, for I always tell my sister to ask any girls she pleases to Inverashiel, and she very seldom bothers me about it. You can imagine my feelings when I heard that Julia Romaninov was expected within a few hours, and had indeed already started from London. It was too late to try and stop her, and my first impulse was flight.
I came up from the Highlands last night. I have a place on the West Coast, where at this moment I have a party of people staying with me for shooting. My sister is entertaining them in my absence, but I must get back to my duties of host. What I want to suggest is that you should pay us a visit at Inverashiel." "Thank you very much," said Juliet doubtfully.
Juliet failed to extract much comfort from Gimblet when, about six o'clock, she met him coming up through the garden to Inverashiel Cottage. All the afternoon she had possessed her soul in what patience she could muster, which was not a great deal.
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