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Nor could Parkins, fair-minded man as he was, detect anything in the demeanour of master, mistress, or maid that indicated guilt. He was much more inclined to think that the boy had been imposing on the Colonel. The latter was unwontedly silent and pensive at dinner and throughout the evening.
And he led the way into the house. As I entered the squalid and miserable mansion, the sight which greeted me made me recoil. On a wretched bed lay the corpse of a woman; and at a glance, I recognized the woman Parkins, who had played so tragic a part in the history of Mordaunt. The face was hideously attenuated; the eyes were open and staring; the lower jaw had fallen.
He had only forgotten to remove them from the tray. Jack kept straight on; these differences between the master and Parkins were of daily occurrence. "And, Uncle Arthur, I met the most wonderful gentleman I ever saw; he looked just as if he had stepped out of an old frame, and yet he is down in the Street every day and " "What firm?" "No firm, he is " "Curbstone man, then?"
Not that anybody wanted Parkins to crack one, that is, not his master, and certainly not his mistress, and most assuredly not his other mistress, Miss Corinne, the daughter of the lady whom the successful Wall Street broker had made his first and only wife.
"You will find some whisky and soda on the sideboard there. Parkins evidently thinks that I ought to have a male escort when I come home late." "I don't want whisky and soda, Jane," he cried passionately. "I want you!" She rested her hand upon his shoulder. "And am I not yours, dear," she asked, "foolishly, unwisely perhaps, but certainly yours?
When he met the Colonel at dinner, Peace or as much of her as that gentleman could manage reigned once more in the military bosom; nor was she put to flight in the hours of bridge that followed dinner, for Parkins was a more than respectable player.
It seems that when the captain promised him promotion, he did not know anything of August's interference with the gamblers. But when Parkins filed his complaint, it touched the captain.
"On the telephone, at this time of night?" Lady Ruth exclaimed. "Ridiculous! They must send a message, whoever they are!" "Parkins told them so, your ladyship," the girl answered; "but they insisted that the matter was important. They would give no name, but said that they were speaking from Mr. Wingrave's rooms." Lady Ruth raised her eyebrows.
She looked blankly at the servant for a moment or two, before saying: "Thank you, Parkins; I will wait inside." If her many weeks of looking for employment had taught her nothing else, they now told her how worse than foolish it would be to shatter at one blow Mrs Hamilton's good opinion of her. In compliance with her employer's request, she returned to the drawing-room, her nerves all on edge.
He put it to his lips, but it was quite full of a fine, caked-up sand or earth, which would not yield to knocking, but must be loosened with a knife. Tidy as ever in his habits, Parkins cleared out the earth on to a piece of paper, and took the latter to the window to empty it out.
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