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'It was impossible, of course. You needn't look, Mottram. I've torn up the films. There was nothing there. It was impossible. 'That, said Lowndes, very distinctly, watching the shaking hand striving to relight the pipe, 'is a damned lie. Mottram laughed uneasily. 'Spurstow's right, he said. 'We're all in such a state now that we'd believe anything. For pity's sake let's try to be rational.
She walked down the field path; and when she came to the steep place where Mottram had told her that he was going away, the tears for the first time began running down Catherine's face. She felt again the sharp, poignant pain which his then cold and measured words had dealt her, and the blow this time fell on a bruised heart.
A month's pay all round for the pool, no limit, and fifty- rupee raises. Somebody would be broken before we got up, said Lowndes. 'Can't say that it would give me any pleasure to break any man in this company, said Mottram.
Then they had come to a stile Mottram had helped her up, helped her down, and for a moment her hand had lain and fluttered in his hand.... During the long walk back, each had been very silent; and Catherine she could not answer for her companion when she had seen Charles waiting for her patiently, had felt a pained, shamed beat of the heart.
They walked, silently, side by side, along the terrace and down the stone steps. When in the leafless orchard, and close to where they were to part, he spoke: "You bid me go at once?" Mottram asked the question in a low, even tone; but he did not look at Catherine, instead his eyes seemed to be following the movements of the stick he was digging into the ground at their feet.
Your kinsman, your almost brother, Charles, was found this morning in the wood, dead as you saw him in your dream." The face of the man sitting up in bed stiffened was it with fear or grief? "They found James Mottram dead?" he repeated with an uneasy glance in the direction of the couch where crouched his wife. "And his head, most reverend sir what of his head?"
She explained her presence there. Their hands scarce touched in greeting, and then they started walking side by side up the field path. Mottram carried a stout ash stick.
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