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"I should be a good deal astonished if it hadn't suggested itself to her family," Carroll retorted. Vane looked thoughtful. "I'm far from sure that it's an idea they would entertain with any great favor. For one thing, I can't live here." Carroll laughed. "Try them, and see. Show them Nairn's telegram when you mention the matter." Vane swung himself down from the wall.
She had visited the spot frequently during the last few days, watching eagerly for a sail that did not appear. There had been no news of Carroll since the skipper of the tug reported having landed him, and the girl was tormented by doubts and anxieties. She had just come back and was standing in Mrs. Nairn's sitting-room, when she heard the tinkle of the telephone bell.
Nairn's manner had been colder; but Jessy decided to wait; and for the second time that day fortune seemed to play into her hands. It was dark outside, but the entrance hall was brightly lighted and Jessy could see into it from where she sat. Highly trained domestics are generally scarce in the West, and the maid had left the door of the room open.
Hume gave the Earl Marischal as his original authority. The Earl was likely to be better informed about events of 1752-1753 than about those of September 1750. 'It is supposed that the Pretender's Son keeps at Montl'hery, six leagues from Paris, at Mr. Lumisden's, or at Villeneuve St. Georges, at a small distance from Town, at Lord Nairn's; Sometimes at Sens, with Col. Steward and Mr.
Vane was sitting alone in the room set apart for the Clermont Company in Nairn's office when Drayton was shown in. He took the chair Vane indicated and lighted a cigar the latter gave him. "Now," he began with some diffidence, "you cut me off short when I met you the other day, and one of my reasons for coming over was to get through with what I was saying then.
It was early in the evening when she reached Nairn's house, for she thought it better to arrive there a little before he came home. She was told that Mrs. Nairn and Miss Chisholm were out but were expected back shortly. Evelyn had been by no means cordial to her since their last interview, and Mrs.
Nairn's personally conducted tour we, I might observe parenthetically, intend to ski this afternoon." They bundled into the motor once more and were soon on the slopes a little lower down where several flying figures could already be seen.
About a fortnight after Vane's return to Vancouver, he sat one evening on the veranda of Nairn's house, in company with his host and Carroll, lazily looking down upon the inlet. The days were growing shorter; the air was clear and cool; and the snow upon the heights across the still, blue water was creeping lower down.
"I suppose there's no use in my saying anything more now; but I can't help pointing out that as head of the concern you have a certain duty to the shareholders which you seem inclined to disregard," Carroll remarked. Vane smiled. "I've no doubt that their interests will be as safe in Nairn's hands as in mine.
One morning, about a fortnight after they returned to the Dene, Vane and Carroll walked out of the hamlet where the wheelwright's shop was. Sitting down on the wall of a bridge, Vane opened the telegram in his hand. "I think you have Nairn's code in your wallet," he said. "We'll decipher the thing." Carroll laid the message on a smooth stone and set to work with a pencil.
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