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Rumors of a New York millionaire ball had given him some vague idea of fancy dress. A lot of them looked like freaks. He caught glimpses of corridors lighted by curious, high, deep windows with leaded panes. It struck him that there was no end to the place, and that there must be rooms enough in it for a hotel. "The tapestry chamber, of course, Burrill," he heard Mr. Palford say in a low tone.
They had their coffee in the library, and afterward sat at the writing-table and looked over documents and talked until Mr. Palford felt that he could quite decorously retire to his bedroom. He was glad to be relieved of his duties, and Tembarom was amiably resigned to parting with him. Tembarom did not go up-stairs at once himself.
Palford, who was not given to subtle analysis of differences in character and temperament, argued privately that an English youth who had been brought up in the streets would have been one of two or three things.
"Thank you, sir," said Pearson in a low, respectful voice. His manner was correctness itself. There seemed to Mr. Palford to be really nothing else to say. He wanted, in fact, to get to his own apartment and have a hot bath and a rest before dinner. "Where am I, Burrill?" he inquired as he turned to go down the corridor.
"He must have experienced a number of jolts during the last few months." Palford & Grimby's view of the matter continued to be marked by extreme distaste for the whole situation and its disturbing and irritating possibilities.
He laughed half nervously. It seemed to be up to him to understand, and he didn't understand in the least. "You have, through your father's distant relationship, inherited a very magnificent property the estate of Temple Barholm in Lancashire," Palford began to explain, but Mr. Hutchinson sprang from his chair outright, crushing his paper in his hand.
"That is really astute, but but what do you think, Palford?" Mr. Grimby turned to his partner, still wearing the shocked and disturbed expression. "I have been recalling to mind a circumstance which probably bears upon the case," said Mr. Palford. "Captain Palliser's mention of the portrait reminded me of it. I remember now that on Mr.
Palford bent his head in acquiescence. "Perhaps you can tell me what the present Mr. Temple Barholm knew of him how much he knew?" "I told him the whole story the first time we took tea together," Miss Alicia replied; and, between her recollection of that strangely happy afternoon and her wonder at its connection with the present moment, she began to feel timid and uncertain.
Palford up a flight of steps broad enough to make him feel as though he were going to church. Footmen with powdered heads received him at the carriage door, seemed to assist him to move, to put one foot before the other for him, to stand in rows as though they were a military guard ready to take him into custody.
Palford that the new inheritor was particularly interested in his possessions or exhilarated by the extraordinary turn in his fortunes. The enormity of Temple Barholm itself, regarded as a house to live in in an everyday manner, seemed somewhat to depress him.
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