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Poor Maryann appeared much relieved by this explanation, although she felt it to be consistent with her dignity that she should throw considerable doubt on Larry's statement, cross-question him pretty severely, and allow herself to be convinced only after the accumulation of an amount of evidence that could not be resisted.
Maryann, in talking over matters with her faithful bosom friend, was wont to say: "Yes, Jemimar, I never had two opinions about it, they're the beautifulest an' sweetest children I ever did 'ave had to do with just as Master Will, their papa, was simularly so; but I'm free to confess that they all has a surprisin' sperrit.
"I hear something." Maryann suspended the brush. The tramp of a horse was apparent, approaching the front of the building. The paces slackened, turned in at the wicket, and, what was most unusual, came up the mossy path close to the door. The door was tapped with the end of a crop or stick. "What impertinence!" said Liddy, in a low voice. "To ride up the footpath like that!
"Sure ye don't misdoubt me word, Maryann," said Larry reproachfully; "isn't it true, Bunco?" "Yoos a norribable liar, Larry," answered Bunco with a broad grin. Richards the coachman, who had been for some minutes too busy with the buttered toast and bacon to do more than listen and chuckle, here burst into a loud guffaw and choked himself partially.
"For any lover of hers might have come to the house if he had been a respectable lad. The most mysterious matter connected with her absence indeed, the only thing which gives me serious alarm is that she was seen to go out of the house by Maryann with only her indoor working gown on not even a bonnet."
"Not so, Jemimar," said Maryann, with a look of offended dignity, "unwillin' to speak I am not, though unable I may be at least I was so until yesterday, but I have come to know a little more about it since Master Will came 'ome while I chanced to be near " Maryann hesitated a moment, and Richards, through a mouthful of toast, muttered "the keyhole." "Did you speak, sir?" said Maryann, bridling.
They've been wanting to lock up the door these two hours, but she isn't come in. And they don't know what to do about going to hed for fear of locking her out. They wouldn't be so concerned if she hadn't been noticed in such low spirits these last few days, and Maryann d'think the beginning of a crowner's inquest has happened to the poor girl."
A few minutes after eleven had struck, Maryann turned in her bed with a sense of being disturbed. She was totally unconscious of the nature of the interruption to her sleep. It led to a dream, and the dream to an awakening, with an uneasy sensation that something had happened. She left her bed and looked out of the window.
Her idea, however, she proceeded to carry out, with what initial success we have already seen. A WEEK passed, and there were no tidings of Bath- sheba; nor was there any explanation of her Gilpin's rig. Then a note came for Maryann, stating that the business which had called her mistress to Bath still detained her there; but that she hoped to return in the course of another week.
In the kitchen the same subject was being discussed by a select party, consisting of Maryann, Mr Richards the coachman, his spouse Jemima formerly Scrubbins the baby Richards who has already been referred to as being reduced in the matter of his ablutions to a bread can and Larry O'Hale with his faithful Indian friend Bunco.
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