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I spent some time in the church there, and at the Council offices, looking for something, for something I didn't find, Joany and didn't expect to find either, come to that, ha, ha!" He laughed. "No, never expected to find, but, to make dead sure, I went to Morchester, and hunted there, Joany, and still I didn't find what I was looking for and knew I shouldn't find!" "Mr. Slotman!"
You offered to to atone by marrying me." "In my mad, presumptuous folly, Joan!" "And it was overheard; the man heard all. He did not understand how should he? His vile mind grasped at other meanings. He went down to Marlbury and to Morchester to make enquiries, to look for an entry in a register that was never made.
Neither at Marlbury, nor at Morchester had any marriage been registered in the name of Hugh Alston and Joan Meredyth in the year nineteen eighteen; and having discovered that fact beyond doubt, Philip Slotman took train for London. A fortnight had passed since Johnny Everard's first visit to Starden, and during that time he had been again and yet again.
But he was not done yet. Six miles from Marlbury was Morchester, a far larger and more important town. Thither went Philip Slotman and pursued his enquiries with a like result.
"You left Miss Skinner's, said you were going to Australia, didn't you? But you didn't go. Oh no, you didn't go! You know best where you went, but there's no proof of any marriage at Marlbury or Morchester. Now now do you begin to understand?" She did understand, a sense of horror came to her, horror and shame that this man should dare dare to think evil of her!
What I was looking for at Marlbury and Morchester and did not find was evidence of a marriage having taken place in June, nineteen eighteen, between Hugh Alston and Joan Meredyth. But there's no such evidence, none! Ah, that touches you a bit, don't it? Now you begin to understand why I ain't taken in by your fine dignity!"
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