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Repton that you dined with the Ballantynes that night, but she was sure that you knew nothing of the affair. You had left the tent before it happened." "That is true," answered Thresk. "Yet you have evidence which will acquit Mrs. Ballantyne?" "I think so." "How is it, then," the lawyer asked, "that we have heard nothing of this evidence at all from Mrs. Ballantyne herself?"
"The people who are coming are strangers to India," she said, "but I have told them of you and they will come expectant." "You are very kind." She had spoken lightly and with a laugh. Ballantyne replied without irony or amusement and with his eyes fixed upon her face. Mrs. Repton could not account for the panic which seized hold upon her.
"Now, Master Repton, we may as well have our meal. We mayn't get another good one, for some time; but I still hope that we shall be able to cripple that fellow. I have great faith in that long eighteen. The boatswain is an old man-o'-war's-man, and is a capital shot.
But Jane Repton said something to me in Bombay so true you can get whatever you want if you want it enough, but you cannot control the price you will have to pay. I know, my dear, that I paid too big a price. I trampled down something better worth having." Stella rose suddenly to her feet. "Oh, if I had known that on the night in Chitipur! What a difference it would have made!"
Repton looked at him now. Oh, yes, he had thought his proposal out during the night journey to Bombay not a doubt of it. "Stella, too, will suffer," she said. "Worse than she does now?" asked Thresk. "No. But her position will be difficult for awhile at least," and she came towards Thresk and pleaded. "You will be thoughtful of her, for her?
He could hear the prosecuting counsel making play with it. He stood for a moment lost in horror. Repton had no further word to say to him. Mrs. Repton had never once spoken. They wanted him away, out of the room, out of the house. Some insight let him into the meaning of her silence. In the presence of this tragedy remorse had gripped her.
So they strip him and thrust him out, and he dies in beggary. This, then, is the winter's work of the great pagan army at Repton, Alfred watching them and their work doubtless with keen eye not without misgivings too at their numbers, swollen again to terrible proportions since they sailed away down Thames after Wilton fight.
What if you are cowed? What if you live in terror day and night?" "Yes. I am a fool," said Thresk, and he sat down again. "There are two more questions I want to ask. Did you ever talk to Stella" the Christian name slipped naturally from him and only Jane Repton of the two remarked that he had used it "of that incident in the library at Agra?" "Yes."
I do not tell you whether the village of Repton, where the two brothers, John and Charles Adams, originally resided, is near or far from London: it is a pretty village to this day; and when John Adams, some five-and-thirty years ago, stood on the top of Repton Hill and looked down upon the houses the little church, whose simple gate was flanked by two noble yew trees, beneath whose branches he had often sat the murmuring river in which he had often fished the cherry orchards, where the ripe fruit hung like balls of coral; when he looked down upon all these dear domestic sights for so every native of Repton considered them John Adams might have been supposed to question if he had acted wisely in selling to his brother Charles the share of the well-cultivated farm, which had been equally divided at their father's death.
She yielded to an impulse with which they had nothing whatever to do, an impulse so overmastering that even to the Reptons her precipitancy wore a look of ingratitude. She drove home with Jane Repton as soon as she was released, to the house on Khamballa Hill, and while she was still in the carriage she said: "I must go away to-morrow morning."
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