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"The same woman," muttered Caranby, "always mysterious and unsatisfactory. You say her sister is dead?" Cuthbert cast a look at the Globe, which lay on a small table near Caranby's elbow. "If you have read the papers, sir " "Yes! I have read that Miss Loach has been murdered. You went down to Rexton to-day. I presume you heard something more than the details set forth by the press."
She was the daughter of the richest man in Rexton and inclined to give herself airs on that account, but Alan's gentle indifference always brought home to her an unwelcome feeling of inferiority. "You've been tiring yourself out again tramping that lake shore, I suppose," said Mrs.
The plain dark dress she wore emphasized the grace and strength of her supple form. Her face was oval and pale, with straight black brows and a finely cut crimson mouth a face whose beauty bore the indefinable stamp of race and breeding mingled with a wild sweetness, as of a flower growing in some lonely and inaccessible place. None of the Rexton girls looked like that.
After the death of the father the girls went to the Continent, and only came back after two years abroad. Then Isabella, after vainly trying to get me to marry her, became the wife of Saxon, then a rising barrister. Selina went to Rexton and shut herself up in the house she now has." "The house she did have," corrected Cuthbert, "you forget she is dead." "Yes.
"O no, Senor, not at all," said Jose; "but a servant should not let strangers into the house without his master's leave." "Is that young senor your master then?" inquired the alguazil. "He is my master's son; my master is Senor Rexton, an Englishman, and he is fast asleep," said Jose. "Well, you need not disturb him then; all we want is food and shelter for the night," replied the alguazil.
I then ran round the field, sheltered from observation by the corn, which, as you know, was then high, and I got out at the further side. I walked to Keighley, the next place to Rexton, and took a cab home. I went straight to bed, and did not see Basil till the next morning. He told me he had come home later, but he did not say where he had been, nor did I ask him."
My father, Mr Henry Rexton, had been a soldier in his youth; but when he married my mother, who was the daughter of an eminent British merchant, he quitted the army; and my grandfather induced him, by advantageous offers, to take a share in his house of business.
But I hope you will not bring Cuthbert into the matter unless it is absolutely necessary. I don't want a scandal." "Rest easy, Lord Caranby. I have the complete control of this affair, and I'll only use Cuthbert's presence at Rexton to make Miss Saxon speak out. But then, she may not be keeping silence for Cuthbert's sake, as she can't possibly know he was at Rexton on that night.
That good woman knows everything about everybody in Rexton for three generations back. Alan found Isabel King with his housekeeper when he got home. His greeting was tinged with a slight constraint. He was not a vain man, but he could not help knowing that Isabel looked upon him with a favour that had in it much more than professional interest.
And I was coming to-day to get the permission confirmed." "Then I am sorry to say you cannot go over it." "Why not?" asked Jennings, wondering why Lord Caranby had changed his mind a thing he rarely did. "I only want to " "Yes! Yes!" Caranby waved his hand impatiently, "but the fact is, the house has been burnt down." "Burnt down at Rexton!" cried Jennings, jumping from his seat. "Yes.
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