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Phil Abingdon glanced rapidly at Doctor McMurdoch. "None at all, Mr. Harley," she replied. "The doctor has already told me of " "You know why I ask?" She inclined her head. "And Mr. Nicol Brinn? Have you met this gentleman?" "Never. I know that Dad had met him and was very much interested in him." "In what way?" "I have no idea. He told me that he thought Mr.
She was sitting quite motionless in the big armchair, and her face had grown very pale. Even as he sprang forward he saw her head droop. "She has fainted," said Doctor McMurdoch. "I'm not surprised." "Nor I," replied Harley. "She should not have come." He opened the door communicating with his private apartments and ran out.
Rama Dass had taken charge of the ladies' cloaks in the hall, and in spite of the typical English environment in which she found herself, Phil sat very near to Mrs. McMurdoch on a settee, scarcely listening to the conversation, and taking no part in it. For there was a strange and disturbing air of loneliness about Hillside.
"I am wondering how we are going to break the news to her." Perceiving that Doctor McMurdoch had clearly been intimate with the late Sir Charles, Harley determined to make use of this opportunity to endeavour to fathom the mystery of the late surgeon's fears.
With one ivory hand he touched his knee for a moment, the only expression of disappointment which he allowed himself. "May I ask you to go and enquire?" continued Phil, now wholly mistress of herself again. "I am wondering, too, what can have become of Mrs. McMurdoch." "I will find out," said Ormuz Khan. He rose, his every movement possessing a sort of feline grace.
She alighted, and Harley dismissed the cabman and followed the girl into Doctor McMurdoch's house. Here he made the acquaintance of Mrs. McMurdoch, who, as experience had taught him to anticipate, was as plump and merry and vivacious as her husband was lean, gloomy, and taciturn. But she was a perfect well of sympathy, as her treatment of the bereaved girl showed.
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