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"Remains quite unaffected, ma'am, by all that you have told me." "And I am still obliged to keep her under my care?" "Or," Mr. Mool answered, "to resign the office of guardian, in favour of Lady Northlake appointed to act, in your place." "I won't trouble you any further, sir. Good-evening!" She turned to leave the office. Mr. Mool actually tried to stop her. "One word more, Mrs. Galilee."
"Can you tell me Mr. Gallilee's address?" "Certainly! Care of the Earl of Northlake " "Will you please write it in my pocket-book? I am so upset by this dreadful affair that I can't trust my memory." Such a confession of helplessness as this, was all that was wanted to rouse Mr. Mool. He rejected the pocket-book, and wrote the address on a telegram. "Return directly: your wife is seriously ill."
There will be nothing to alarm him, if I go to his mother's sister. If you could see Lady Northlake, you would feel as sure as I do that she will take my part. "After writing to you, I must have fallen asleep. It was quite dark, when I was awakened by the striking of a match in my room. I looked round, expecting to see Miss Minerva. The person lighting my candle was Mrs. Gallilee.
Null's curiosity without fear of lowering himself in the estimation of a client. "I had better, perhaps, explain that chance allusion of mine to the children," he began. "My good friend, Mr. Gallilee, had his own reasons for removing his daughters from home for a time reasons, I am bound to add, in which I concur. The children were to be placed under the care of their aunt, Lady Northlake.
She asked me so kindly to visit her in Scotland, and be introduced to Lord Northlake, that I accepted the invitation with a glad heart. "When my aunt returned, I quite forgot that we were on bad terms. I gave her an enthusiastic account of all that had passed between her sister and myself. How do you think she met this little advance on my part? She positively refused to let me go to Scotland.
Gallilee's reply. With or without an excuse, Lady Northlake was to be resolutely prevented from taking a foremost place in her niece's heart, and encouraging the idea of her niece's marriage. Mrs. Gallilee felt almost pious enough to thank Heaven that her sister's palace in the Highlands was at one end of Great Britain, and her own marine villa at the other!
"It may not be amiss," he began, "to mention, in the first place, that the fortune left to Miss Carmina amounts, in round numbers, to one hundred and thirty thousand pounds. The Trustees " "Skip the Trustees," said Mrs. Gallilee. Mr. Mool skipped. "In the matter of the guardian," he said, "there is a preliminary clause, in the event of your death or refusal to act, appointing Lady Northlake "
If Lady Northlake had been a little less quiet and retiring, the matter might have ended in a very different manner. Gallilee imposed on him and there she is, in authority, under the Will. Let that be. We must protect this poor girl. We must act!" cried Mr. Mool with a burst of energy. "We must act!" Mr. Gallilee repeated and feebly clenched his fist, and softly struck the table.
Although her place of residence might not be a palace, she would be a poor creature indeed, if she failed to spend eight thousand a year, in the effort to be worthy of the social position of Lady Northlake.
"The first legacy mentioned in the Will," said Mr. Mool, "is a legacy to Lady Northlake." Mrs. Gallilee's face turned as hard as iron. "One hundred pounds," Mr. Mool continued, "to buy a mourning ring." Mrs. Gallilee's eyes became eloquent in an instant, and said as if in words, "Thank Heaven!" "So like your uncle's unpretending good sense," she remarked to her son.
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