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An apology for not invading their house and inflicting her presence upon them uninvited! A telegraphic despatch from Lord Kirton had summoned her to Ireland on the previous day; and Val's face grew bright as he heard it. "What was the matter, Hedges?" inquired his mistress. "I'm sure my brother would not telegraph unless it was something." "The message didn't say, my lady.
"Mr. Elster is in his own house, madam; and " "In his own house!" raved Lady Kirton. "It's no house of his; it's his brother's. And I wish I was his brother for a day only; I'd let Mr. Val know what presumption comes to. Can't dinner be delayed?" "I'm afraid not, my lady." "Ugh!" snapped the countess-dowager. "Send up tea at once; and let it be strong, with a great deal of green in it.
Many people asked that question, but Dick Derosne himself was not among them. He knew that he would be very sorry to lose her, that she was the chief reason now why he found Kirton a pleasant place of residence, and that he resented very highly any other man venturing to engross her conversation.
So they put two and two together. The same sort of thing is often reported in Lincolnshire. "One night," said a servant from Kirton Lindsey, "my father and brother saw a cat in front of them. Father knew it was a witch, and took a stone and hammered it. Next day the witch had her face all tied up, and shortly afterwards died."
There are also some rebuses, and some lettering. On the north wall, in six several squares, are the letters of the name Ashton interwoven with scrolls; the letters AR before a church, and a bird on a tun occur more than once. This certainly refers to Abbot Robert Kirton; but what the bird means is not clear. In the moulding over the large arch to the south choir aisle are four sets of letters.
"They went out this afternoon, my lord: and have not come in, I believe." "There, that will do," tartly interposed the dowager. "You don't know anything about it, and you may go." "Lady Kirton, where are the children?" "Where you can't get at them, I say," was Lady Kirton's response.
I have kept tar burning outside the house the last two days." "You are not serious, Lady Kirton!" "I am serious. I wouldn't catch a fever for the whole world. I should die of fright before it had time to kill me. Besides I have Maude to guard. You were forgetting her." "There's no danger at all. One of the servants became ill after they returned home, and it proved to be fever.
"Your treachery forced Maude upon me; and let me tell you now, Lady Kirton, if I have never told you before, that it wrought upon her the most bitter wrong possible to be inflicted; which she lived to learn. I was a vacillating simpleton, and you held me in your trammels. The less we rake up old matters the better. Things have altered. I am altered.
And, as I walked home in the evening, back to my house, I met a string of race-horses; they were in training, I was told, for the Kirton Cup; their owner spent, they said, ten thousand pounds a year on his stables. Their owner, Sir, owned the mill and them that worked there."
In the Governor's household the accounts of his doings were allowed to pass in silence; they had become a forbidden topic. Alicia might devour them in solitude, and the Governor himself watch them with an almost sympathetic interest; Lady Eynesford ignored them altogether, and seemed not to see Medland's colours and his watchwords that glared at her in the streets of Kirton.
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