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Mechanically, blindly, she took off the big hat, flung aside the parasol, and went through the uniting bathroom into Mrs. Melrose's room. What on earth had been the matter with Chris? What right had he how dared he treat her so rudely? Mrs. Melrose was in a flowered chair near a wide-opened window.
Melrose is well acquainted with both the past and recent history of Mr. Robert Smeath, who made a tool of Mrs. Melrose in the matter of a disgraceful theft of a valuable bronze from Mr. Melrose's collection " "The Hermes!" cried Victoria. "She has never said one word to me about it." "Miss Melrose has been telling me the story," said Tatham, smiling at the recollection.
"Mama," Alice exclaimed, suddenly, clasping a warm hand over her mother's trembling one, and looking at her with all love and reassurance, "you know how Chris and I love you, don't you?" Tears came into Mrs. Melrose's eyes. "Of course I do, lovey," she faltered. "Mama, you know how we would stand behind you how anxious we are to share whatever's worrying you!" Alice went on, pleadingly.
Of the store, indeed, of precious or curious objects lying heaped together in the confusion of Melrose's den, the only treasures of a portable kind that Faversham found any difficulty in handling were his own gems.
Colonel Barton told me that he had every hope of him; he was evidently most anxious to purge some at least of Mr. Melrose's misdeeds; seemed businesslike, conciliatory, etc. Well, I assure you, he has done almost nothing! It is not really a question of giving him time. There were certain scandalous things, years old, that he ought to have put right at once on the nail or thrown up his post.
"The poor kid has got a stupid morning coming to-morrow, I'm afraid!" he had said, adding, in answer to Norma's raised eyebrows, "Business. She has to sign some papers, and alter her will and I want all that done before they go away!" "Has Leslie a will?" Norma had asked. "My child, what did you suppose she had? Leslie inherited practically all of her Grandfather Melrose's estate.
Hence the constant charges of persecution for political reasons; and hence, too, this bad case of the Brands, which had roused such a strong and angry sympathy in the neighbourhood that Faversham felt the success of his own regime must be endangered unless some means could be found, compatible with Melrose's arrogance, of helping the ruined family.
Nor, at this critical moment, did he forget his uncle the man who had been a father to him in his orphaned boyhood. What pleasure the dear old fellow would have taken in this new opening and in Melrose's marvellous possessions! By the way Melrose had said nothing about the gems for a long time past, and Faversham was well content to leave them in his temporary keeping.
Melrose's door on a rainy afternoon late in August, her boxes piled high on the roof of the cab she had taken at the station. She had travelled straight through from Venice, stopping in Milan just long enough to pick up a reply to the telegram she had despatched to the perfect housekeeper whose permanent presence enabled Mrs.
The room with its lumber; its confusion of glittering things; this old man frowning at her for no reason! For after all what had she done? Even the contadini they were rough often they couldn't read or write but they loved their grandchildren. As he caught her reference to the bronze Hermes, Melrose's face changed. He rose, stretching out a hand toward a bell on the table.
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