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That is, if I can't get Miss Byrne to take it, or Miss McConachan, as I ought to call her now." "Lord Ashiel could leave his money where he liked, couldn't he?" Gimblet inquired. "Yes, he could, but he would naturally have left it to his daughter, if she really was his daughter.
McConachan, who is such a good shot; every one had been wounding their birds, and that always annoyed Lord Ashiel. He was in a very bad temper, and though he was not cross with me, I was rather afraid he might be, so I went and stood with Sir David. Miss Tarver was watching Sir George Hatch in the next butt, and then came Colonel Spicer, with Mr.
I was thinking what a good thing it was, and how well things looked like turning out for I thought I could manage the girl if she was able to prove that she really was a McConachan and it struck me I ought to be able to contrive that the business should look a bit blacker against poor old David.
The men were Sir George Hatch and Colonel Spicer, who are cousins of Lord Ashiel's; and Mr. Mark McConachan and Sir David Southern, who are his nephews, Mr. McConachan being the son of his dead brother, while Sir David is his younger sister's child. "I have been here a fortnight. The time has gone quickly.
Meredith when she took over the charge of the McConachan baby, quickly claiming the reward that was offered for their discovery. There was no longer any room for doubt that Juliet Byrne was the same person as Juliana McConachan, or that Julia Romaninov had begun life as little Judy Harsden. All this scarcely sufficed to rouse Juliet from the apathy into which she had fallen.
The road, at the point they had reached, was beginning to ascend; and the stout pony between the shafts slowed resolutely to a walk as he leant against the collar. The man lifted his hat as Lady Ruth wished him good day. "I saw you at the funeral, Angus McConachan," she said. "A sad business. A terrible business." And she shook her head mournfully. The farmer stopped the willing pony.
Poor child, she's the ghost of what she was a few days ago. Half-drowned, too, when it happened, which made it worse for her." "She must have had a narrow escape," Gimblet remarked. "What was the name of the man who pulled her out of the river?" "Andy Campbell. He had been stalking with Mark McConachan." "Was young Lord Ashiel with him?" "No, he was on ahead.
'Well, he said, 'if you are going in, I think I'll just go over and see if there's anyone about; you might leave the door open, will you? "And so I left him, and made my way to the library. As I passed through the billiard-room, Mr. McConachan, who was knocking the balls about, asked me if I had seen his cousin, and I told him Sir David was outside on the lawn by the gun-room door.
"The victim of the fraud was as anxious as myself to avoid a public scandal, and it was arranged that nothing should be done for a year, to give time to McConachan to refund the money; if, however, he failed to do so within that time, there would be nothing for it but to make the matter public. These terms were agreed on and McConachan was told to send in his papers at once.
McConachan thought we were in front of him. Sir David was with me, and Lord Ashiel was fearfully angry with him, and said he'd no business to let me get in a place where I might have been killed. He was rather cross with him for the next few days, though I told him it was my fault; and then the other day, when Sir David annoyed him again, there was a frightful row."
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