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"I am Colonel Myddelton's daughter," said Barbara. "But you, sir?" "Right, right," the stranger replied, more gaily; "you ply me hard, but my name stays secret, none the less. Yet this ring may perhaps convince you I am no common housebreaker. See, it was the gift of your father, and a passport, so he said, to Myddelton Hall by day or night."
The foundation-stone was laid on the 25th July, 1795, by Richard Myddelton, Esq., of Chirk Castle, M.P., and the work was not finished until the year 1803, thus occupying a period of nearly eight years in construction.
The ivy was, of course, out of sight of the two sentries so long as they stayed at their posts; but, as anyone who knows Myddelton Hall, which is little altered since that time, will understand, a very trifling extension of his beat would bring one of them into a position to command the carriagedrive which Jack had to cross to get from the shrubbery to the house.
"Everything depends," he explained, "on my departure to-night. The cause hangs upon it. A blight on my evil luck!" he cried. "Were Colonel Myddelton at home, I should not be fleeing from my own country empty-handed. I shall be writing to him most of this day, but a spoken word is worth a volume of pen stuff."
He went immediately to the address in Pentonville which he found on the envelope, but was very shortly informed by Mrs Cork that 'she knew nothing whatever about them. He walked round Myddelton Square, hopeless, for he had no clue whatever. What had happened to him would scarcely, perhaps, have caused some young men much uneasiness, but with Frank the case was altogether different.
Spelling was not her strongest point, nor, indeed, did anyone then mind whether spelling was good or bad. She wrote as follows: DEARE AND REVEREND SIR, Therefor I pray you let me have my brother Philip and his friends for this daye that I may be more at mine ease. "Your servant, BARBARA MYDDELTON. Having sanded and folded the paper Barbara awakened Jack.
On a bright June morning, early in the Protectorate, Colonel Myddelton, followed by a groom, rode through the gates of the old Hall and turned his horse's head towards London. At the bend in the road, halfway up Sheringham Hill, he stopped a moment and waved his hand in the direction of the house. A white handkerchief fluttered at an upper window in reply.
"Alas!" exclaimed Barbara, "I have delayed hospitality too long. But, you see," she added, smiling, "such visitors are rare at Myddelton Hall. Our gates fly wide to welcome my father's friends when we know of their approach, I assure you, sir." The stranger bowed, and, smiling in reply, lost for the moment his air of melancholy.
It was all very well for Clem to make pretence of having transferred her affections to Jack Bartley. Pennyloaf had been going about in fear for her life since that attack upon her in Myddelton Passage. 'I dursn't marry you, Bob! I dursn't! she kept saying, when the proposal was first made. But Bob laughed with contemptuous defiance.
I have a very distinct recollection of calling upon him in Myddelton Square at the time when I was living close to him in Percy Circus.
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