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"No one seems to know much about them. Even Mrs. Sinclair, who has taken them up so lately, knows scarcely anything of their antecedents. As far as I remember, Mrs. Sinclair asked me one day if I were not going to call on the Jacobis. 'They are perfectly charming, were her words. 'They are a brother and a sister who have taken Beechcroft for the season.
"I shall keep my eyes open, I assure you," was Malcolm's reply. And then he continued in a perplexed tone, "How on earth did Cedric get hold of them?" But as Mrs. Godfrey could not answer this, Malcolm allowed the subject to drop. In his case forewarned was forearmed, and but for his promise to Dinah and his very real concern for Cedric, he would have given the Jacobis a wide berth.
There, you have it; now drink, but don't wet yourselves!" After the little Jacobis had all enjoyed the foaming, elevating liquor, they became possessed by such a buoyant spirit of life, that Louise was obliged to command them to exhibit their mighty deeds at a distance. Hereupon they swarmed forth on journeys of discovery, and began to tumble head over heels round the place.
He knew where the Jacobis lived Cedric had told him at 12 Gresham Gardens; so he went on to Queen's Road by train. It was quite dark by that time, but he would just pass by the house and see if it were lighted up. His curiosity to know if they were there rather surprised himself.
"What a pity my Henley visit is put off till the following week, or we might have had a good old time together." "Oh, I don't know," rather absently; "you will be too much taken up with your new friends to want an old stager like me." "You are wrong there," returned the lad eagerly. "I should be glad to have your opinion of" he hesitated, and then finished lamely, "of the Jacobis, I mean.
He goes back with him to-night, does he not? Ah, I thought so," as Elizabeth nodded. "I must have some talk with him; I shall tell him that I disapprove of the Jacobis, and shall beg him to break off the acquaintance."
To listen to the boy one might have thought the Jacobis were much above the average of human beings that there must be something idyllic, angelic, and altogether seraphic in their persons and dispositions; but Malcolm, who knew his man, discounted largely from this, and kept his amusement and incredulity to himself.
"You would hardly dare to say that to Hugh Rossiter's face, Cedric," returned Malcolm somewhat sternly. "He was my informant; he knew the Jacobis when Saul Jacobi was a billiard-marker in San Francisco, and his sister living with her husband in Verona. You have been badly treated, my dear boy how badly you little know. You have been encouraged to make love to a married woman.
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