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Updated: June 16, 2025
To Reginald's immense surprise and relief, Leon informed him that the marriage with Miss Fortescue was not a mock marriage at all. For once in his life he had been honest. The marriage had been a real one. It was only after the affair in the Dalton vaults that he had pretended that it was false. He did so in order to free himself from his real wife, and gain some control over the Dalton estate.
The two boys did not write or see each other till they met accidentally in the street at Christmas time. Rex saw Scott coming and grew red in spite of himself. There was a chance, he felt, that the other might go by without speaking to him. But Scott halted and put out his hand. "Hello, Rex," he said, "you are a stranger." And at these words a great burden was lifted from Reginald's mind.
He assured Paulina of his warm interest in her, of the influence which he possessed over Sir Reginald Eversleigh, and the fears which he entertained of some treacherous proceeding on Reginald's part which might place her in a most unpleasant position.
Roy was fishing from the tree trunk over the creek again, but he was alone this time and the expression on his face was almost as discontented as Reginald's had been on that former occasion. His float bobbed under two or three times, but he paid no attention to the fact. He was too deeply absorbed in thought.
"What! do you play the piano?" exclaimed the young lady, forgetting her dignity and clapping her hands. "Oh, my eye, what a novelty! Ma, Mr Reginald's going to play for musical chairs! Sam, do you hear? Mr Cruden plays the piano! Isn't it fun?" Reginald flung himself with a sigh down on the cracked music-stool.
Sophia took her tenderly to her heart and murmured, 'Oh, my dear, how like your father! Caroline patted her cheek and said, 'Yes, yes, Reginald's daughter, so she is! And a moment later, Rose entered, faintly smiling, extending a cool hand.
"What did I tell you?" whispered Reginald. "Now I guess you'll hear 'bout folks with their heads off!" Katie put her hands over her ears, but Reginald's eyes were twinkling with delight. The girls would have to admit that his scrap of news was true! As they hastened down the long avenue after school, he again asked his question: "Say, girls! What did I say?"
Harker hastily turned over the file, and eagerly searched the police and country intelligence. In a minute or two he looked up and said, "Had Cruden senior changed his name?" "How do I know?" said Booms, with a bewildered look. "I mean, had he dropped his surname? Look here." And he showed Booms the paragraph which appeared in the London papers the morning after Reginald's arrest.
Moggs, the housekeeper, her parlour looking into the stable-yard, which seemed to Sir Reginald's wife the only really snug room within the four walls of that respectable mansion. Mrs.
The orderly-room whispers: "June the fifteenth"; the senior officers' quarters murmur: "France on June the fifteenth"; the mess echoes to the tidings spread by the subaltern-who-knows: "We're for it on June the fifteenth, me lad"; through the men's hutments the word is spread: "It's good-bye to this blinking hole on June the fifteenth"; the Home receives a letter and confides to other homes: "Reginald's lot are going to the war on June the fifteenth"; finally, if we are to believe Mr.
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