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"What kind of questions?" suggested Grimby. "Only about what was known of the time and place, and how the sad story reached England. It used to touch me to think that the only person who seemed to care was the one who might have been expected to be almost glad the tragic thing had happened. But he was not." Mr. Palford watched Mr. Grimby, and Mr.
All he did for him was done for kindness' sake. I I " It was inevitable that she should stammer before going to this length of violence, and that the words should burst from her: "I would swear it!" It was really a shock to both Palford and Grimby. That a lady of Miss Temple Barholm's age and training should volunteer to swear to a thing was almost alarming. It was also in rather unpleasing taste.
Deep windows opened either into the leafless boughs of close-growing trees or upon outspread spaces of heavily timbered park, where gaunt, though magnificent, bare branches menaced and defied. A slim, neat young man, with a rather pale face and a touch of anxiety in his expression, came forward at once. "This is Pearson, who will valet you," exclaimed Mr. Palford.
He had set her literally at the head of his house. And Palliser, having heard a vague rumor that he had actually settled a decent income upon her, had made adroit inquiries and found it was true. It was. To arrange the matter had been one of his reasons for going to see Mr. Palford during their stay in London. "I wanted to fix you fix you safe," he said when he told Miss Alicia about it.
You couldn't make it true if you sat up all night to do it." "When I go into the business details of the matter tomorrow morning you will realize the truth of it," said Mr. Palford. "Seventy thousand pounds a year and Temple Barholm are not unsubstantial facts." "Three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, my lad that's what it stands for!" put in Mr. Hutchinson.
He began to look anxious and restless. "Yes, they're going to-morrow," he answered. "You see," argued Mr. Palford, with conviction, "how impossible it would be for us to make any arrangements in so few hours. You will excuse my saying," he added punctiliously, "that I could not make the voyage in the steerage." Tembarom laughed. He thought he saw him doing it. "That's so," he said.
Fancy laughing until you cried, and the servants looking on! Once Burrill himself was obliged to turn hastily away, and twice she heard him severely reprove an overpowered young footman in a rapid undertone. Tembarom at least felt that the unlifting heaviness of atmosphere which had surrounded him while enjoying the companionship of Mr. Palford was a thing of the past.
Palford continued to read his newspapers undisturbedly, as though the condition of atmosphere surrounding him were entirely accustomed and natural. It was of course necessary and proper that he should accompany his client to his destination, but the circumstances of the case made the whole situation quite abnormal.
There still remained details to be enlarged upon before Palford himself returned to Lincoln's Inn and left Mr. Temple Barholm to the care of the steward of his estate. It was not difficult to talk to him when the sole subject of conversation was of a business nature. Before they parted for the night the mystery of the arrangements made for Strangeways had been cleared. In fact, Mr.
Palford found his charge baffling because, according to ordinary rules, a young man so rudimentary should have presented no problems not perfectly easy to explain. It was herein that he was exotic. Mr.
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