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Joseph Loveredge removed a pile of books from one chair and placed them carefully upon another, after which he went and stood before the fire. "Don't if you don't like," said Joseph Loveredge; "but if you don't mind, you might call yourself, just for the evening say, the Duke of Warrington." "Say the what?" demanded Peter Hope. "The Duke of Warrington," repeated Joey.
Jack Herring, as the oldest friend, urged by the other members, took the bull by the horns and called boldly. On neither occasion was Mrs. Loveredge at home. "I'm damned if I go again!" said Jack. "She was in the second time, I know. I watched her into the house. Confound the stuck-up pair of them!" Bewilderment gave place to indignation.
Peter did his best that evening to explain the true position of affairs without imputing snobbery to Mrs. Loveredge. It was a difficult task, and Peter cannot be said to have accomplished it successfully. Anger and indignation against Joey gave place to pity. The members of the Autolycus Club also experienced a little irritation on their own account.
Joey paused. "I should avoid all reference to your matrimonial affairs if I were you," was Joey's advice. "You didn't come out of that business too well." "Oh! as bad as that, was I? You don't think Mrs. Loveredge will object to me?" "I have asked her that. She's a dear, broad-minded girl.
Members of the Autolycus Club with time upon their hands took up the business of private detectives. Mrs. Loveredge turned out to be a handsome, well-dressed lady of about thirty, as Peter Hope had desired. At eleven in the morning, Mrs. Loveredge shopped in the neighbourhood of the Hampstead Road. In the afternoon, Mrs.
Joseph Loveredge persevered steadily, and had done so for years, and was himself contented with the result, which, seeing it concerned nobody else, was all that could be desired.
"I want you to dine with us on Sunday," said Joseph Loveredge. "Jack Herring will be there. You might bring Tommy with you." Peter Hope gulped down his astonishment and said he should be delighted; he thought that Tommy also was disengaged. "Mrs. Loveredge out of town, I presume?" questioned Peter Hope. "On the contrary," replied Joseph Loveredge, "I want you to meet her."
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