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Updated: May 27, 2025
"As we left the hospital Lyle had said to me, 'You must not blame me for treating him as I did. All is fair in this work, and if by angering that boy I could have made him commit himself I was right in trying to do so; though, I assure you, no one would be better pleased than myself if I could prove his theory to be correct. But we cannot tell.
He admitted that evening it was the picture of some one he had loved dearly, and I have since thought perhaps he would rather I had not seen it." Miss Gladden was silent; her old theory regarding Jack's being the father of Lyle, seemed to her now more probable than ever.
Olive often contrived to walk in her garden when her neighbours were in theirs so that she could hear the boys' cheerful voices over the high hedge. By this means she learnt their Christian names, Robert and Lyle the latter of which she admired very much, and thought it exactly suited the pretty, delicate younger brother.
"Aunt Flora" is that Mrs Lyle, mamma? "Aunt Flora told us you had gone to live up in the north. I am afraid it can't be as bright and pretty there as at Thetford, but still it must be lovely to have your father and mother with you for always now.
Dean, with a mock serious air. "Consider, my dear Lady Lyle, is there not something very chaste and beautiful in the aspect of an old maid?" Lady Lyle looked up sharply. She had an idea that both she and her daughters were being quizzed, and she had some difficulty to control her rising temper. "Then do you call the Princess an old maid?" she demanded.
The more I have questioned you, the more I have become convinced of this, and I find I am not alone in my opinion." "Have you talked with Jack, and does he think as you do?" Lyle questioned. Miss Gladden answered in the affirmative. "Is that the reason he has asked me so often regarding my early life?"
Under other circumstances, this happy change in him would have relieved us greatly, but none of us could think of anything save the death of his elder son and of the charge which hung over Arthur. "As long as Inspector Lyle remained in the house, my father decided that I, as one of the legal advisers of the family, should also remain there. But there was little for either of us to do.
Houston gave them no information?" Lyle rose, her eyes flashing with scorn and indignation, as she replied, "Why should Mr. Houston give them any information?
They will ask the news from the camp say to them that Annot Lyle of the Harp is discovered to be the daughter of Duncan of Ardenvohr; that the Thane of Menteith is to wed her before the priest; and that you are sent to bid guests to the bridal. Tarry not their answer, but vanish like the lightning when the black cloud swallows it. And now depart, beloved son of my best beloved!
About an hour later, Houston, who had observed his uncle's involuntary start of surprise on seeing Lyle, and who was anxious that he should learn the truth as early as possible, slipping his arm within that of his uncle's, led him out upon the porch, where they lighted their cigars, smoking for a few moments in silence, then talking together in low tones of the one so dear to each of them, while Houston related the details of his first meeting and early acquaintance with the miner, Jack.
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