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However, she had chosen to insert my name in the next issue of the "Mercury" as having been present at a small gathering at her "parlors" to meet "the distinguished scientist and poet, Charles Liversage Spence," a notice which she doubtless considered "sympathetic." I stayed at home the whole of the day following that on which I wrote to Mr.
The pair were in the garden of the house in Trafalgar Road occupied by Mr Liversage and his mother, and they looked westwards over the distant ridge of Hillport, where the moon was setting. 'Whatever made me do it! repeated Annie, and the twinkle in her eye had that charming cruelty which John had missed. 'Did they not deserve it?
'How came the will to be in the post? asked Robert. 'The handwriting on the envelope was your sister's, said Liversage. 'And the package was posted in Manchester. Very probably she had taken the will to Manchester to show it to a lawyer or something of that sort, and then she was afraid of losing it on the journey back, and so she sent it to herself by registered post.
'Agreed! Liversage murmured. The moon was extremely lovely and romantic against the distant spire of Hillport Church, and its effect on the couple was just what might have been anticipated. 'Perhaps I'm sorry, Annie admitted at length, with a charming grimace. 'Oh! I don't think there's anything to be SORRY about, said Liversage. 'But of course they'll think I've had a hand in it.
Unfortunately they met outside, and got very hot I saw them from the bedroom window and went away. 'You mustn't forget, my dear girl, said Liversage, 'that it was you they quarrelled about. I don't want to defend 'em for a minute, but it wasn't altogether the money that sent them to you; it was more that the money gave them an excuse for coming! 'It was a very bad excuse, then! said Annie.
So Mr Liversage had been instructed to take out letters of administration of the estate, which, in the continued absence of the will, would be divided equally between the brothers. And twelve or thirteen thousand pounds may be compared to a financial beef-steak that cuts up very handsomely for two persons. The carving-knife was about to descend on its succulence, when, lo! the will!
The slate-scratching was scarcely over that evening when Mr Powell Liversage appeared. He was a golden-haired man, with a jolly face, lighter and shorter in structure than the two brothers. His friendship with them dated from school-days, and it had survived even the entrance of Liversage into a learned profession.
But before it arrived, of course, she was dead. 'That wasn't a bad scheme of poor Mary Ann's! John commented. 'It was just like her! said Robert, speaking pointedly to Liversage. 'But what an odd thing! Now, both these men were, no doubt excusably, agonized by curiosity to learn the contents of the will. But would either of them be the first to express that curiosity? Never in this world!
I won't speak until he does. And Robert's secret heart had somehow divined this idiotic resolution, and had said: 'We shall see. Maggie had been the first to notice the stubborn silence. Then their friends noticed it, especially Mr Liversage, the solicitor, their most intimate friend. But you are not to suppose that anybody protested very strongly.
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