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The dinner-gong sounded, and the girls went down to their midday meal. Carrie soon perceived that Elma was in real trouble. With all her low, idle, careless, and unprincipled ways, at the bottom of her heart she was fond of her sister. She made up her mind to visit Sam Raynes that evening and get him to return the money. "Poor old Elma," she said to herself. "I don't want to be too hard on her.
Raynes to the vicar, and hurried back to her. "You would like to see him?" I asked. She nodded, and I led the way upstairs. I opened the door and closed it again softly, leaving them alone.... I descended into the hall, and there upon the steps, looking at me with black, beady eyes, deep set in his wrinkled face, was my friend, or rather my enemy, Nagaski. He eyed my approach with gloomy disfavor.
Florrie doesn't mind a bit how often she acts gooseberry." Elma went and stood by the window. She looked gloomily out. How shabby and sordid her home was; how miserable everything seemed! Carrie was really a trial to any sister. Elma wondered if in the future she would have to tolerate Sam Raynes as her brother-in-law. A sick feeling crept over her.
Please let me have it at once, Mr. Raynes. I must have it, I " "I am afraid you ask for the impossible," said Sam in a careless tone. "I have speculated with the money, and the returns will come in perhaps in a week, perhaps a fortnight, perhaps longer. I say again that you ought to be obliged to me. It is not every fellow who would take so much trouble." Poor Elma gave him a despairing glance.
He turned and went away like a man who is fully master of himself, and waited till it was day before taking away the Baroness; but he had no longer any thoughts of sleeping. As soon as they were alone he said. "Madame, I saw you just now in Princess de Raynes' room; I need say no more, and I am not fond either of reproaches, acts of violence, or of ridicule.
There was a ferry two miles beyond the mill, but he felt that no boat would take him across. There was the old stone bridge, too, at Raynes Corner, six miles down the road. Well, he must cross there, for it was not likely that the sturdy piers could have suffered even from such a flood as this. That would do.
I had another alarm a few days later. Returning one evening by train from Waterloo, I was followed into the compartment I selected by a party of five men, two of whom I recognised. One was the landlord of the Raynes Park Hotel, now deceased, and the other his son. Their companions proved to be Frenchmen, which somehow struck me as a curious circumstance.
But how do you know that? I rejoined, with considerable surprise. 'Why, because I know who the men are! Although you saw them with Mr. Savage of the Raynes Park Hotel, it doesn't follow that they are staying at Raynes Park. As a matter of fact they live here in this very road. They have been here I daresay, eight or nine months now. And as for being detectives, my dear sir, they are musicians!
Elma had made up her mind not to tell about Carrie and Sam Raynes. "I'll let her think that I spent the money on finery," she said to herself. "She is sympathizing about dress. I'll let her think that." Kitty's hands had dropped to her sides; a look of despair filled her face. "What is to be done?" she said. "I never thought for a moment you could not let me have it back."
Now, poor Sam Raynes, he . Yes, what is it, Miss Malone?" "I wish you would leave me," said Kitty in a haughty tone. "I am not friends with Elma just now, and I would rather not see any of her family." "Yes, but I think you'll see me when I tell you my errand," said Carrie, in no way abashed by Kitty's manner.
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