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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Dear me!" said Helen, "how strange! Surely Mr. Penfold cannot know the character of that man. Stop a minute! Advertise for him? Then nobody knows where he lives? There, papa. You see he is afraid to go near Arthur Wardlaw; he knows he destroyed the ship. What a mystery it all is! And so Mr. Penfold is at home, after all; and not to send me a single line.
We have one or two others on the same subject." Mrs. Penfold clasped her small hands in rapture. "Oh! but how interesting! Do you know I was once Galatea? When I was a girl I used to act a great deal. Well, not act exactly for I didn't have to speak. I never could remember my lines. But I had two great parts. There was Hermione, in 'The Winter's Tale'; and Galatea.
Penfold did his best to keep up the spirits of all of the party when they parted on board the packet; but Mrs. Conway quite broke down at last. Mabel cried unrestrainedly, and his own eyes had a suspicious moisture in them as he shook hands with Ralph. Fortunately they had arrived a little late at the wharf, and the partings were consequently cut short.
Penfold and Susan had gone to visit a couple of maiden ladies, living half a mile off along the road. But she showed not the smallest awkwardness in entertaining her guest. The rain of the morning had left the air chilly, and a wood fire burnt on the hearth.
"Ay," said Nancy incredulously, "they do look like bank-notes, and feel like 'em; but they ain't wrote like them. Bank-notes ain't wrote black like that in the left-hand corner." Penfold explained. "Ten-pound notes are not, nor fives; but large notes are. These are all fifties." "Fifty whats?" "Fifty pounds." "What, each of them bits of paper worth fifty pounds?" "Yes.
"What I want is for you to tell your Martha that she is to give notice to leave at once, and that if she has an opportunity she is to mention to Miss Penfold that she has a friend who is out of place at present, and whom she is sure will suit.
However, he had promised his mother that he would try to make the best of things; and he tried to assure himself that after all three weeks or a month would be over at last. After an hour and a half's drive they passed through a lodge gate into a park, and in a few minutes drew up at the entrance to Penfold Hall. An old servant came out. "Will you come with me into the library, sir? Mr.
'Most likely! Well, I ain't satisfied with most likelys. I want to KNOW." "But but " "Laban Keeler, until they find his body I shan't believe Albert's dead." "But, Rachel, you mustn't try to deceive yourself that way. Don't you see " "No, I don't see. Labe, when Robert Penfold was lost and gone for all them months all hands thought he was dead, didn't they?
Who should bribe him, but the man as owned the ship?" "Miss Rouse," said Mr. Penfold, "I sympathize with your grief, and make great allowance; but I will not sit here and hear my worthy employer blackened with such terrible insinuations. The great house of Wardlaw bribe a sailor to scuttle their own ship, with Miss Rolleston and one hundred and sixty thousand pounds' worth of gold on board!
Arthur! why, he is the mate of the Proserpine," said Penfold. "What! Wylie! Joseph Wylie?" cried Arthur, in a sudden excitement that contrasted strangely with his previous indifference. "What is that?" cried Wardlaw senior; "the Proserpine; show him in at once."
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