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"It may be a great help to your fortunes, mon cher, if Frank Hazeldean marry this lady without his father's consent. Perhaps he may be disinherited. You are next of kin. "How do you know that?" asked Randal, sullenly. "It is my business to know all about the chances and connections of any one with whom I do money matters. I do money matters with young Mr.
His hair, once so fine and silken, was of a harsh iron-gray, bald in ragged patches; his forehead and visage were ploughed into furrows; intelligence was still in the aspect, but an intelligence that instinctively set you on your guard, sinister, gloomy, menacing. Randal stopped short all questioning. He seized the small modicum of wine on the table, and drained it at a draught.
Caldegard looked into the strange face, and almost flinched from the terrible eyes. "I'll do all you say," he replied simply. Then Randal came, pulling on his coat. His brother made him swallow whisky and water, forced the elder man to do the same, and before they left, demanded money of Randal.
And sure enough a few kindly words from the popular heir of the Lansmere baronies usually gained over the electors, from whom, though Randal had proved that all England depended on their votes in his favour, Randal would never have extracted more than a "Wu'll, I shall waute gin the Dauy coomes!" Nor was this all that Harley did for the younger candidate.
"We look a bit different, don't we?" "Sent me in a cab, as if I were his valet," said Randal, "to fetch his newest and purplest raiment from his beastly little flat." "Nothing like it," said George, "to take the taste of savagery out of the mouth. If the proletariat would only dress for dinner every night, we shouldn't have any labour troubles.
Leaving Limmer's, Randal hastened to Frank's rooms in St. James's Street. "My dear fellow," said he, when he entered, "it is very fortunate that I persuaded you to let me break matters to your father. You might well say he was rather passionate; but I have contrived to soothe him. You need not fear that he will not pay your debts."
"I was too impatient to stay at home and listen to the parson's prosing," said Mr. Hazeldean, nervously. "I have shaken Dale off. Tell me what has passed. Oh, don't fear, I'm a man, and can bear the worst." Randal drew the squire's arm within his, and led him into the adjacent park. "My dear sir," said he, sorrowfully, "this is very confidential what I am about to say.
Occasionally, indeed, he consults me as to Randal Leslie, in whom, as your special protege, he takes considerable interest." "That, too, surprises me. Well, I am weary of perplexing myself. This place is hateful; after to-morrow I shall leave it, and breathe in peace. You have seen the reports of the canvass; I have had no heart to inspect them. Is the election as safe as they say?"
Audley's hand, as if mechanically, fell upon the newspaper, fell upon that part of the columns devoted to births, deaths, and marriages. Randal stood by, and noted; then, bowing to L'Estrange, left the room. "Audley," said L'Estrange, "I have had an adventure since I saw you, an adventure that reopened the Past, and may influence my future." "How?"
It was not till the morning, when she went to her window to look out upon the now tranquil scene, that she discovered what, being a stranger to the house, she had quite forgotten, that this room was at a great height some thirty feet from the ground. Another story was that of good old Mr. Randal Rymer, who was often a visitor at the house in the late Lady Mardykes' day.
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