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All this, and a great deal more, did Elsie and Cora and Mrs Ravenshaw dilate upon, until Ian almost forgot his resolve. Suddenly he remembered it. He also remembered that his father's house still existed, though it was tenantless, his father and Miss Martha having gone up to see friends at the Mountain. "Come, Vic," he exclaimed, starting up, "I must go home.
"I was just going to tell them, father," said Ian, resting a hand on his sire's shoulder, "that I have come straight from Willow Creek with the news that this day I have, with my own unaided hands," he cast a sidelong glance at the old gentleman "transported your house to Mr Ravenshaw's knoll, and have asked Elsie Ravenshaw to be my wife, and been accepted."
A long-drawn sigh and a gentle "hush!" was all the reply vouchsafed by Mrs Ravenshaw. A quarter of an hour later Miss Trim came nervously back. "It's rushing in now like anything! Oh, do get up! We may have to fly! The boards of the floor have been forced up, and they've had to take the door off its hinges " She stopped again.
Darkness had long since fallen, and a lamp, which had been brought in by the maid who was also the model, stood on the table between the two men, and threw its shaded beams on their faces. A clock on the mantel-piece chimed eight, and aroused Barrant to the flight of time. "I must get back," he said. "I intended to see Dr. Ravenshaw, but I shall leave that until later.
"Not exactly," she replied, a trifle incoherently. "I wanted to see Robert again before I returned to London in the morning. So we motored over after dinner, and found him dead." Fresh tears broke from her. Austin Turold wandered around the room quickly and nervously, then drew Dr. Ravenshaw to the door with a glance. "I should like to go upstairs before the police come," he whispered. Dr.
In a few minutes Angus Macdonald's house was abandoned to its fate, and himself and sister, with a couple of domestics, were added to the number of refugees who crowded to the abode of hospitable Sam Ravenshaw. "Hef you forgotten the cawtie?" asked Angus of his sister, while assisting her to land on the steps from which Miss Trim had taken her dive.
"No fear of my forgetting the mother of the man who is helping to search for my dear boy," returned Ravenshaw, "besides, old Liz is not without friends. Both Louis and Winklemann have promised to keep their eyes on her."
She should be looked after or taken away from here altogether, but her husband seems quite indifferent." "Do you think she will recover?" "It is impossible to say." "How do you think the shock was caused?" "I should not like to hazard an opinion on that point, either," replied Dr. Ravenshaw gravely. He glanced at his watch as he spoke. "I must be going," he said.
On learning their names she conducted them into a small room off the hall and departed to inform the doctor of their arrival. Dr. Ravenshaw came in immediately. The quick glance he bestowed upon his visitors expressed surprise, but he merely invited them to be seated and waited for them to explain the object of their late visit.
I went up and called an' tried to open the door, but I couldn't." "Why didn't you try to break in the door?" said Dr. Ravenshaw. "Tweren't my place," was the dogged retort. "I know my place. I was just going to St. Fair for you and his brother." "How long is it since this happened since you heard the crash, I mean." "Not many minutes agone. Just before you came to the door."
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