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Kelson, naturally ignoring his questioner's slightly offensive manner, thereupon related the circumstances of the encounter at the station-yard and of the subsequent drive to the town, merely softening the detail of their preliminary altercation. Henshaw listened alertly intent, it seemed, to seize upon any point which did not satisfy him.
When the men went into the drawing-room Muriel Tredworth made a sign to Kelson; he joined her and, sitting down some distance apart from the rest, they carried on in low tones what seemed to be a serious conversation. "I want to tell you of something extraordinary which has happened to me, Hugh." Gifford just caught the words as the girl led the way out of earshot.
It was then that Hamar was taxed to the utmost, that he exhausted voice, strength, and patience, in holding Kelson back. He was about to give in, when to his astonishment these Vice-Elementals vanished, and a phantasm, the exact counterpart of Karaver, only much taller, appeared before them, and commenced giving them instructions as to Stage Two.
Kelson had only to glide after his victim, and with his eyes fixed searchingly on her, to say, "Madam, may I have a word with you?" and the battle was more than half won the women were too fascinated to think of resistance.
As I have said before, Curtis need do nothing else but eat, whilst you, Matt, can become a Mormon and marry all the pretty girls in London!" This speech had the desired effect, and nothing more for the time at least was said about retiring. "Do you think Leon is quite er like er like us?" Kelson said, when Hamar left them, after administering his admonition. "At times he hardly looks human.
"Very well, madam," he said, "I will make an exception in your case, and let you have it for half the sum." With a good deal more grumbling she paid the half fee, and, fastening the locket round her neck, flounced out of the building. As Kelson gleefully anticipated, the spell acted in less than two days, and with such success, that he was more than compensated for the monetary loss.
"The water is rushing in forward like a mill stream, sir; we have either started a but, or the wreck of the foremast has gone through her bows, for she is fast settling down by the head." "Get the boatswain to father a sail then, man, and try it over the leak; but don't alarm the people, Mr Kelson."
But, after all, you can't do much since you hold no proofs your word alone will count for nothing." "Ah, but I have strong corroborative evidence," Kelson retorted. "I have the testimony of at least two other people who know quite as much as I do." "Adventurers like yourself," the lady sneered. "My husband would neither believe you nor your friends."
Your fees are exorbitant." "Very well, then," Kelson rejoined with a smile. "Don't blame me if I tell you too much. You were born at sea. Being a troublesome girl at home, you were sent to a boarding-school, where you distinguished yourself in various ways, and last but not least, by making the headmistress a married woman desperately jealous. This led to your being removed.
Oh!" from the audience, and Kelson's heart beat quicker, when a girl with wavy, fair hair and big, starry eyes, screamed out "Don't go near it! Don't go near it!" As soon as there was comparative quiet Kelson spoke. "As you can see, ladies and gentlemen," he said, "this animal is genuinely savage!
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