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"Last evening, for instance," I remarked, "Your Excellency was, I think, exploring a very interesting neighborhood." "Last evening," he repeated. "Let me think. No, not last evening, Captain Rotherby! I was giving a little dinner at my own house." I looked at him for a moment in silence. There was nothing to be learned from his expression.
"Do ye deal in riddles with us?" quoth his lordship. "What have we to do with the time of day?" "Best ask the parson," suggested Mr. Caryll. Rotherby swung round again to Jenkins. Jenkins spread his hands in mute bewilderment and distress. Mr. Caryll laughed silently. "I'll not be married! I'll not be married!" It was the lady who spoke, and those odd words were the first that Mr.
"Miss Delora is engaged," was the abrupt answer. "Nonsense!" I answered. "I insist upon speaking to her. Tell her that it is Captain Rotherby, and she will come to the telephone." There was a little whirr, but no answer. The person at the other end had rung off. By this time I was getting angry. In five minutes time I rang up again. The same voice answered me.
"You are newly crossed from France?" said he. "Ay, and your name is the same as mine. 'Twas what I was advised." Mr. Caryll flashed a sidelong glance at Rotherby, who had turned to stare at his father, and in his heart he cursed the stupidity of my Lord Ostermore. If this proposed to be a member of a conspiracy, Heaven help that same conspiracy!
"Instead," proceeded Mr. Caryll, as if there had been no interruption, "I will now urge you my reasons why you should not so proceed." "Ha!" snapped Rotherby. "They will need to be valid." Mr. Caryll twisted farther round, to face his lordship more fully.
Rotherby considered him through a faint mist that rage had set before his eyes. To be so spoken to damned indeed! by a dirty spy! Had he been alone with the man, there can be little doubt but that he would have jeopardized his very precarious future by kicking Mr. Green downstairs. But his mother saved him from that rashness.
He thinks, perhaps, that you are in his power, eh, because you did fight with the other man and hurt him badly? And Louis knows!" "Please go on," I said. "I want you to be careful," she said. "If he asks you to do anything for him, be sure that it is something which you ought to do, which you may do honorably! You see, Capitaine Rotherby," she went on, "Louis and his friends are not men like you.
"The most excellent relations appear to prevail between you," said he, looking from Rotherby to Green. "Are you, too, my lord, in the secretary's pay." His lordship flushed darkly. "You'll clown it to the end," he sneered. "And that's none so far off," snarled Mr. Green, who since the peppering of his eyes, had flung aside his usual cherubic air. "Oh, you may sneer, sir," he mocked the prisoner.
Through the filmy lace of her veil I could see that they were very soft, almost as though tears were gathering there. "Oh! I do believe you, Capitaine Rotherby," she said, "and I would be very, very happy if I could tell you now all the things which trouble me, all the things which I do not understand! But I may not. I may not just now."
But Everard remained Everard, who had loved her with a great and almost sacred love; Everard, who swore black ruin for my Lord Rotherby the rumor of which may also have been carried to his lordship and stimulated his activities in having Everard hunted down after the Braemar fiasco of 1715.
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