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"I can't conceive Lady O'Callaghan complaining of too much salt in anything, begad," quoth O'Moy, with a laugh. "If you had heard the story she told me about " "Terence, my dear!" his wife checked him, her fine brows raised, her stare frigid. "Faith, we go from bad to worse," said Carruthers. "Will you try to improve the tone of the conversation, Miss Armytage? It stands in urgent need of it."
And thus she left him very thoughtful, as concerned for Una as she was herself. Now Una O'Moy was the natural product of such treatment. There had ever been something so appealing in her lovely helplessness and fragility that all her life others had been concerned to shelter her from every wind that blew.
The Secretary's thin lips permitted themselves to curve into the faintest ghost of a smile. "Precisely," he said. For answer O'Moy, red in the face, thrust forward the dispatch he had received relating to the affair. "Read, sir read for yourself, that you may report exactly to the Council of Regency the terms of the report that has just reached me from headquarters.
Sir Terence O'Moy will have plans in his possession showing their projected extent. Colonel Fletcher, who is in charge of the construction, is in constant communication with the adjutant, himself an engineer; and as I partly imagine, partly infer from odd phrases that I have overheard especially entrusted by Lord Wellington with the supervision of the works."
"When I married Una," the adjutant cut in sharply, "I did not marry the entire Butler family." It hardened him unreasonably against Dick to have the family cause pleaded in this way. "It's sick to death I am of Master Richard and his escapades. He can get himself out of this mess, or he can stay in it." "You mean that you'll not lift a hand to help him." "Devil a finger," said O'Moy.
And then, as he stood there, a suffering, bewildered man, came Carruthers to grasp his hand and in terms of warm friendship to express satisfaction at his acquittal. "Sooner than have such a price as that paid " he said bitterly, and with a shrug left his sentence unfinished. O'Moy came stalking past him, pale-faced, with eyes that looked neither to right nor left. "O'Moy!" he cried.
"It is merely a corroboration of what we have already heard from Mullins and Sir Terence." "Then why unnecessarily distress this lady?" "Oh, for my own part, sir " the prosecutor was submitting, when Sir Terence cut in: "I think that in the prisoner's interest perhaps Lady O'Moy will not mind being distressed a little."
"Grant overheard more than you imagined that night outside the gates. His conclusions ran the truth very close indeed. But I could not believe him, could not believe this of you." "Of course not," said O'Moy gloomily. "I can't believe it of myself."
Her own personal charms may have contributed to it, for the great soldier was intensely responsive to the appeal of beauty. They reached the terrace. Lady O'Moy was nowhere in sight. But Lord Wellington was too much engrossed in his discovery to be troubled. "My dear," he said, "if I can serve you at any timer both for Jack's sake and your own, I hope that you will let me know of it."
Accompanied and half supported by Miss Armytage, who was almost as pale as herself, but otherwise very steady in her bearing, Lady O'Moy made her way, with faltering steps to the benches ranged against the side wall, and sat there to hear the remainder of the proceedings.
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