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Updated: May 11, 2025
She was a sturdy woman of five-and-fifty, with a pleasant face and kindly eyes. But they were clouded now and she showed agitation. "Not come!" exclaimed Ernest with very genuine consternation. Daniel Ironsyde answered. His voice was slow, but he had a natural instinct for clarity and spoke more to the point than is customary with youth.
"I can't time 'em, like I could. That fast chap will get me, I expect." And Raymond proved a true prophet. Indeed far worse happened than he anticipated. Estelle came to watch the cricket after luncheon. She had driven into Bridport with her father and Raymond in the morning and gone on to Jenny Ironsyde for the midday meal. Now she arrived in time to witness a catastrophe.
Gurd; but he shook his head when the young men had gone. Others in the bar hummed on the subject of young Ironsyde after his back was turned. A few stood up for him and held that he had been too severely dealt with; but the majority and those who knew most about him thought that his ill-fortune was deserved. "For look at it," said a tradesman, who knew the facts.
It came to him after he had travelled largely and been for three years master of the works. Arthur was delighted when Raymond accepted his suggestion and made his abode at North Hill. They hunted and shot together; and Waldron, who now judged that the time for golf had come in his case, devoted the moiety of his life to that pastime. Ironsyde worked hard and was held in respect.
I think with Estelle that Abel may have something of the artist in him. He drew exceedingly well as a child. You can see his pictures in Sabina's room. Such a gift if developed might waken a sense of power." "If he knew great things were within his reach, he would not disdain the means to reach them," said Miss Ironsyde.
He had long contemplated a definite deed and planned a stroke against Raymond Ironsyde; but he had postponed the act, partly from fear, partly because the thought of it was a pleasure. Inverted instincts and a mind fouled by promptings from without, led him to understand that Ironsyde was his mother's enemy and therefore his own. Baggs had told him so in a malignant moment and Abel believed it.
But the expression in her eyes had changed. He put out his hand, but she did not take it. "Mister Churchouse has kindly said we can talk in the study, Mister Ironsyde." He followed her, and when they had come to the room, hoped that she was quite well again. Then he sat in a chair by the table and she took a seat opposite him.
The unintelligent forgot to credit the master with his consideration; while those who could think, were often soured by suspicion. These ignorant spirits doubted not that he was seeking to win their friendship against the rainy days in store for capital. Ironsyde came to the works one morning to watch a new Twist Frame and a new operator.
It was, in fact, such a face as Raymond might have admired, and Sabina was such a girl as he might have loved when he did fall in love. She was apparently his prototype and complement in directness and simplicity of outlook; that Miss Ironsyde perceived, and the more she reflected the less she felt inclined to doubt.
For that much Abel apprehended, though the meaning of paternity was as yet hidden from him. That Raymond Ironsyde was his father he understood, and that he must hate him heartily he also understood: his dead grandmother had poured this precept into his young mind at its most receptive period.
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