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"No doubt about that," Meddoes continued. "The father was in the army, and got a half-pay job at St. Heliers. Died short, I suppose, and the girls had to shift for themselves. One went in for painting, kept straight and married old Ferringhall a week or so ago the Lord help her.
Meddoes turned round from the table on which he was practising shots and shrugged his shoulders. "Not much," he answered, "and yet about all there is to be known, I fancy. There were two sisters, you know. Old Jersey and Hampshire family, the Pellissiers, and a capital stock, too, I believe." "Any one could see that the girls were ladies," Ennison murmured.
Hamilton and Drummond and his lot were with us." "Of course," his friend answered. "La belle 'Alcide, wasn't it? Annabel Pellissier was her real name. Jolly nice girl, too." Ennison nodded. "I thought I saw her in town to-day," he said. "Do you happen to know whether she is supposed to be here?" "Very likely indeed," Captain Fred Meddoes answered, lighting a cigarette.
"I'm damned if I'll believe it," he muttered to himself savagely. But for the next few days he avoided Cheveney like the plague. The same night he met Meddoes and Drummond together, the latter over from Paris on a week's leave from the Embassy. "Odd thing," Meddoes remarked, "we were just talking about the Pellissier girl.
"No doubt about that, I fancy," Meddoes answered lightly. "He ran some Austrian fellow off. She was quite the rage, in a small way, you know. Strange, demure-looking young woman, with wonderful complexion and eyes, and a style about her, too. Care for a hundred up?" Ennison shook his head. "Can't stop, thanks," he answered. "See you to-night, I suppose?" He sauntered off.
"Ennison here thought he saw her in London," Meddoes remarked. Drummond nodded. "Very likely. The two sisters were very fond of one another, I believe. Perhaps Sir John is going to take the other one under his wing. Who's for a rubber of whist?" Ennison made so many mistakes that he was glad to cut out early in the evening. He walked across the Park and called upon his sister.
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