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"Did you notice that pretty girl with the sweet voice in the aisle in a line with us, father," Ned asked that evening, "with a great, strong, quiet looking man by the side of her?" "Yes, lad, the sweetness of her singing attracted my attention, and I thought what a bright, pretty face it was!" "That's Mary Powlett and her uncle.
A year ago it seemed absurd that Polly Powlett should like a boy like you better than a man like me, and yet I was sure it was because of you she would have nothing to say to me; but she was right, you will make the best husband of the two. I suppose it's because of that I sent for you.
Bill went off at once and soon returned with a load of firewood; the shutters were then carefully closed, and a fire quickly blazed brightly on the hearth. Bill then went away again, and in a quarter of an hour returned with Mary Powlett. He carried a bundle of rugs and blankets, while she had a kettle in one hand and a large basket in the other. "Good evening!
"I shan't say goodby, Bill," Mary Powlett said quietly. "I don't think Ned Sankey can have done this thing, and if he hasn't you will find that he will not run away, but will stay here and face it out." "Then he will be a fool," Luke Marner said. "I tell ee the evidence be main strong agin him, and whether he be innocent or not he will find it hard to clear hisself.
He went down into the study, and, to his surprise, Mary Powlett was shown in. Her eyes were swollen with crying. "Master Ned," she said, "I have come to say goodby." "Good-by, Polly! Why, where are you going?" "We are all going away, sir, tomorrow across the seas, to Ameriky I believe.
Ned felt cheered by the warm blaze of the fire and by the cheerful sound of the kettle, and after taking a cup of tea found that his appetite was coming, and was soon able to eat his share. Mary Powlett kept up a cheerful talk while the meal was going on, and no allusion was made to the circumstances which had brought Ned there. After it was done she sat and chatted for an hour.
"They have had a lesson for once," Mr. Cartwright said as he looked round, "they won't attack my mill again in a hurry. I need not say, Sankey, how deeply I am obliged to you for your timely warning. How did you get to know of it?" Ned related the story of his being awakened by Mary Powlett. He added, "I don't think, after all, my warning was of much use to you.
After the crash, finding that Mulready's neck was broken and that he was dead, he made off home. He wished it specially to be placed on his deposition that he made his confession not from any regret at having killed Mulready, but simply to oblige Mary Powlett, whose heart was bent upon your innocence being proved. He signed the deposition in the presence of Thompson, myself, and Bill Swinton."
It was that packet of Mira's letters handed to Davies with his father's watch that supplemented Brannan's story and told him all. Mira could not live without adorers, could not resist the longing to flaunt her victims in the faces of other girls, and Powlett was a conquest indeed until his rascality at the institute became known.
In little more than that time Bill returned with Mary Powlett. "I am awfully sorry to hear you are so bad, John," the girl said frankly. "I am dying, Polly; I know that, or I wouldn't have sent for ye. It was a good day for you when you said no to what I asked you." "Never mind that now, John; that's all past and gone." "Ay, that's all past and gone.
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