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Hillyard was to hear more of the matter an hour later, as they all sat at dinner in the mess-room. There were thousands of the tribe, all in a ferment, and just half a battalion of Sudanese soldiers under Luttrell's command to keep them in order. "Blacker thinks we ought to have temporised, and that we shall get scuppered," said Luttrell.
"For Heaven's sake, don't ask Brian," said Richard, looking back over his shoulder, "there is no knowing what he may not require you to believe. Leave the story to me." "I've no desire to tell it," replied Brian, moving away. Luttrell's friends were already outside the hall door, lighting their cigars and playing with the dogs.
"It would have been easy and natural enough to move Heaven and earth for the sake of Brian Luttrell's rights, if Brian Luttrell had not constituted himself my rival in another domain. But when his 'rights' meant depriving you of your property, and placing Mr. Stretton in authority I decline."
There was nothing to be kept quiet. Nothing except Mrs. Luttrell's own delusion on the subject; nobody wanted it to be known that she was as mad as a March hare on the subject. The nurse was as honest as the day. I saw her and questioned her myself." "But my aunt never believed " "She never believed Brian to be her son.
"I was called Dino Vasari at San Stefano," he continued, "but I believe that my rightful name is Brian Luttrell, and that Vincenza Vasari changed the children during an illness of Mrs. Luttrell's." "And that, therefore," said Percival, slowly, "you are the owner of the Strathleckie property or, as it is generally called, the Luttrell property now possessed by Miss Murray?" Dino bowed his head.
Oh, I have seen you twitch and jump with irritation how many times on this yacht! for trumpery, little, unimportant things she has said and done, which you would never have noticed six months ago; or only noticed to smile at with a pleased indulgence." Luttrell's face coloured. "Why, that's true enough," he said.
Luttrell's delusion that suggested the plan to her. She hoped that she might make money by declaring that you were her son, and Dino, Mrs. Luttrell's. She swore on her death-bed that Dino was her child, and that it was Lippo Vasari who was buried in the churchyard of San Stefano." "Which story are we to believe?" said Brian, almost doubtingly.
"Yes!" said Luttrell, and he eyed the ostrich indifferently. "That animal's a brute, isn't he?" He took a threatening step towards it, and the ostrich sidled away as if it really didn't matter to him where he took his morning walk. "Yes?" Luttrell repeated. "I went to a supper-party given by Sir Charles Hardiman." "Oh?" Luttrell's voice was careless enough.
"Wub" was the nickname within the nickname, the cherished sign that the two of them lived apart in a little close-hedged garden of their own. Luttrell's eyes were upon her as she spoke it. And she spoke it with a curious little wistful pursing of soft lips so that it came to him winged with the memory of all her kisses. "Oh, Wub, must you leave me?" she pleaded in a breaking whisper.
His only course was to brazen out the matter as best he could; and this, in the face of Brian Luttrell, of Percival Heron, of old Mr. Colquhoun, it was hard to do. In spite of himself his face turned pale, and his knees shook as he spoke in a hoarse and grating tone. "What does this disturbance mean?" he said. "Why do you come rushing into Mrs. Luttrell's room at this hour of the night?"
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