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And looking round still further he became aware of an open door the door into which Miss Pett had withdrawn and of a bed within on which Kitely now lay, with Dr. Rockcliffe and the police-sergeant bending over him. The other policemen stood by the table in the living-room, and one of them the man who had picked up the pocket-book whispered audibly to Cotherstone as he and his companions entered.
I have a brother in the army, and he pretends that I don't know where he is, or what is his regiment." "A walk to the camp ah, that would be amusing!" said Miss Sylla. "I never saw one. Are they under canvas?" "No; boards," returned Jim. "But come along; if we are going to walk to Rockcliffe, it is time we were off. The sooner you ladies get your hats on, the better. We'll find Mrs.
It must have been some such malicious feeling that prompted Mr. Cottrell to observe, "Poor Jim! He seems destined always to play second fiddle. As at Rockcliffe, he is just beaten again." "Defeats such as Captain Bloxam's," exclaimed Sylla, "are as much to one's credit as easily-obtained victories. He was just defeated at Rockcliffe after a gallant struggle.
"By the way, we met in England last spring a young sub-professor, Horace Bradford, a most unusual young man for nowadays, but of old New England stock. He was one of Sylvia's literature instructors at Rockcliffe College, and he joined our party during the month we spent in the Shakespeare country.
If poor Bradford had desired to be stiff and uninterestingly didactic, he could not have succeeded better. "Ah, yes Rockcliffe Sylvia was there for a couple of years, and will doubtless be glad to hear of the place. I myself never approved of college life for girls, it makes them so superior and offish when they return to society.
"This is a strange affair!" he continued when they were clear of the others. "Did you hear what Dr. Rockcliffe said? that whoever had done it was familiar with that sort of thing!" "I saw for myself," replied Brereton. "I noticed that cord, and the knot on it, at once.
It seems ever since Jim's name appeared in the 'All Army Cup' this morning, excitement has run high; you see, of course they know that Jim won the quarter of a mile race at Aldershot last year. It becomes a case of Rockcliffe versus Aldershot, and of course all the sympathies of Rockcliffe are with their own champion.
I am sending them to your mother with my love, to beg pardon for Miss Lavinia and myself, for we've been trying to go to Pine Ridge all the week; but this affair has kept me spinning like a top, and when I do stop I expect to fall over with weariness. I was so sorry about Rockcliffe Commencement.
Why should he have taken it for granted that Sylvia had spoken of him, and that he should be known to her mother? But such was the case, and he felt bitterly humbled. "I was one of Miss Latham's instructors at Rockcliffe two years ago. I have returned now to spend the vacation with my mother, whom perhaps you know, at Pine Ridge, and finding that you have come to live here I ventured to call."
She dearly loved the sea, and all she had hitherto known of it was in pleasant summer weather, and at a bright amusing little place called Rockcliffe. Seacove was certainly not exactly what she had expected; still, sand-hills and a great stretch of splendid shore were not to be despised.
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