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Updated: June 18, 2025
I ought to tell you that my mother has just sent two nurses there. The condition of things is simply appalling." Faversham straightened his tall figure. "Mainstairs is a deadlock. Mr. Melrose won't repair the cottages. He intends to pull them down. He has given the people notice, and he is receiving no rent. They won't go. I suppose the next step will be to apply for an ejectment order.
The whole Mainstairs village had now been ejected, by the help of a large body of police requisitioned from Carlisle for the purpose. Of the able-bodied, some had migrated to the neighbouring towns, some were camped on Duddon land, in some wood and iron huts hastily run up for their accommodation. For the sick Tatham had offered a vacant farmhouse as a hospital; and Victoria, Mrs.
Faversham, after some ten minutes of motionless reflection, heavily returned to his papers, ordering his horse to be ready in half an hour. He forced himself to write some ordinary business letters, and to eat some lunch, and immediately after he started on horseback to find his way through the October lanes to the village of Mainstairs.
That night, however, on arriving at my surgery, I found a splendid supply of antitoxin, labelled 'for Mainstairs, without another word. I have reason to think Faversham had been in Carlisle himself that day to get it; he must have cleared out the place. "Next day I saw him in the village.
A man of the people then using probably some old muzzle-loader, begged or borrowed? Faversham's thought ran to the young fellow who had denounced Melrose with such fervour at Mainstairs the day of Lydia Penfold's visit to the stricken village. But, good heavens! there were a score of men on Melrose's estate, with at least as good reason or better for shooting, as that man. Take the Brands!
Since a hurried note reporting the latest news of the Mainstairs victims, which had reached her from Faversham on the morning of her departure for London, she had heard nothing from him; and during her weeks of nursing in a darkened room, she had sounded the dim and perilous ways of her own heart as best she could.
Lydia was thinking passionately of Mainstairs and of the deep tones of a man's voice "If you condemn and misunderstand me then indeed I shall lose heart!" A humming sound could be heard in the far distance. "Here they are," said Lady Tatham rising. Victoria's half-masculine beauty had never been so formidable as it was this afternoon.
It began to cost her an effort to remember the emotion of their last meeting in the Mainstairs lane. But when they were alone together, he drew a long breath, and leaning forward over the table before them, his face propped on his hand, he looked at her earnestly. "I wonder what you have been hearing about me?" Lydia made a brave effort, and told him.
And all that remained was to speak the truth to him, to defy and denounce him. Melrose surveyed her. "The ejectment order has been served at Mainstairs to-day, I believe; and the police have at last plucked up their courage to turn those shiftless people out. There, too, I understand, Lady Tatham, you have been meddling."
"I say, what's the name of a village, about two miles from here, I walked through while you were all at church this morning? the most God-forsaken place I ever saw! a horrible, insanitary hole!" "Mainstairs!" said Barton, promptly, waking up. "That's the only village hereabout that fits the description. But Melrose owns two or three of them."
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