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I attributed this at first to the effects of the James Orlebar Cloyster bomb-shell, but discovered that it was in reality due to the fact that Eva was going out to a fancy-dress ball that night. She was having dinner sent up to her room, they told me, and would be down presently. There was a good deal of flitting about going on. Maids on mysterious errands shot up and down stairs. Old Mr.
"He intended to marry her, probably for wealth and position. The woman a man of Harry's stamp marries is seldom, if ever, the woman he loves," added the chief with a somewhat cynical smile, for he was essentially a man of the world. "But what secret could Enid Orlebar desire to hide?" exclaimed Fetherston wonderingly. "If he loved her, he certainly would never have threatened exposure."
It was a sleepy, hot, and sticky wreck that answered to the name of James Orlebar Cloyster that morning; but I had my first youth and forty pounds, so that soap and water, followed by coffee and an omelette, soon restored me. The journey to Waterloo gave me opportunity for tobacco and reflection.
"No," said the other; "I ain't got no 'ouse property to spend." "Ah." said the Reverend, cheesing it, and sucking his pipe. "Dessay yer think I'm free with the rhino?" said Blake after a while. "I was only wondering," said the Reverend. Blake stared first at the Reverend and then at me. "Ever remember a party of the name of Cloyster, Mr. James Orlebar Cloyster?" he inquired. "Yes," we both said.
I could sit here at my bedroom window and look at it all night. But then I should be sure to oversleep myself and be late for breakfast. I shall read what I have written once more, and then I shall go to bed. I think I shall wear my white muslin tomorrow. James Orlebar Cloyster's Narrative I have never won through to the goal I longed for, and now I never shall.
Was it possible that the inquiries had led to a suspicion of Sir Hugh's criminal conduct? The very thought appalled him. "I well, in the course of the inquiries I made I found that the lady in question was greatly attached to the dead man," replied Fetherston rather lamely. Trendall smiled. "It was to Enid Orlebar that Harry sent when he felt his fatal seizure.
He raised his frayed cap politely and asked whether she were Mademoiselle Orlebar. Then, when she had replied in the affirmative, he drew from the breast of his blouse a crumpled letter, saying: "The Englishman who has been staying at the Lion d'Or at Allamont gave this to me at dawn to-day. I was to give it only into mademoiselle's hands. There is no reply."
She stood there in ignorance that he had already seen and closely questioned Barker in London, and that the man had made an admission, an amazing statement namely, that the subtle Eastern perfume upon Enid Orlebar, when she arrived so hurriedly and excitedly at Half Moon Street, was the same which had greeted his nostrils when he entered his master's chambers on his return from that errand upon which he had been sent.
To write the agony with which he throatily confessed it! to be swept into the maelstrom of literary journalism, to be en rapport with the unslumbering forces of Fleet Street those were the real objectives of James Orlebar Cloyster. "Of course, I mean," he said, "I suppose it would be a bit of a struggle at first, if you see what I mean. What I mean to say is, rejected manuscripts, and so on.
Hitherto he had held cynical notions concerning love and matrimony, but ever since he had met Enid Orlebar in that winter hotel beside the sea, and had afterwards discovered her to be stepdaughter of Sir Hugh Elcombe, he had found himself reflecting upon his own loneliness. At luncheon he was to come face to face with her again.
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