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I'd find a way to settle the score of that pert fellow from France, and to dictate terms to his lordship at the same time." Her ladyship stared at him. "Ye're an unnatural hound, Rotherby. Would ye betray your own father?" "Betray him? No! But I'll set a term to his plotting. Egad!
"Like enough some outlying branch," answered the imperturbable Caryll a jest which only himself could appreciate, and that bitterly. "And how came you into this?" Rotherby sneered audibly in self-mockery, no doubt, as he came to reflect that it was he, himself, had had him fetched. "They needed another witness," said Mr.
"If you think that I give you my word of honor to attempt no violence, nor to depart until you shall give me leave," said he. Rotherby, judging Mr. Caryll by his knowledge of himself, still hesitated. But her ladyship realized, in spite of her detestation of the man, that he was not of the temper of those whose word is to be doubted. She signed to the footmen. "Go," she bade them.
"What can I do for you this evening, Captain Rotherby?" he asked, with his usual bow. "A table for supper, perhaps?" "I want some coffee," I asked. "I want you to see that it is strong, and well made." Louis turned and gave an order to a waiter. I sat down, and he stood by my side. "Mademoiselle has gone to her room?" he asked. "Five minutes ago," I answered.
Pryme, and under this additional source of irritation the attorney's diurnal drunkenness had taken on its most ill-tempered and brutal phase. On the Friday morning, before setting out for Rotherby, he told his wife that he had invited 'four men' to dinner at half-past six that evening.
She had finished buttoning her gloves, and looked up at me with a queer little smile at the corner of her lips and her hands behind her. "Capitaine Rotherby," she said, "there are so many things which it seems hard to understand. I myself am very unhappy and perplexed, but I do know what my uncle would wish me to do. He would wish me to remain quite quiet, and to wait."
His little eyes twinkling, his chubby face suffused in smiles, as though it were an excellent jest to be hunting knowledge that should hang a man, the spy assured Lord Rotherby that there was little doubt Mr. Caryll could be implicated as soon as he was about again. "And that's the reason after your lordship's own express wishes why so far I have let Sir Richard Everard be.
"And for his own?" "Pshaw!" "Are you a father?" she wondered contemptuously. "To my eternal shame, ma'am!" he flung back at her. He seemed, indeed, a changed man in more than body since Mr. Caryll's duel with Lord Rotherby. "No more, ma'am no more!" he cried, seeming suddenly to remember the presence of Mr. Caryll, who sat languidly drawing figures on the ground with the ferrule of his cane.
"Captain Rotherby," he said, "there is one thing I should like to ask you. How did you know of Mr. Delora's projected visit to Newcastle?" I smiled. "Why should I give away my methods, Louis?" I said. "You know very well that the movements of Mr. Delora have become very interesting to me. You and I are on opposite sides. I certainly do not feel called upon to disclose my sources of information."
"A little to the right, there, the turf is better." "But there is no protection," put in the duke. "You will be under observation from that side of the square, including Stretton House." "What odds?" quoth Rotherby. "Do I care who overlooks us?" And he laughed unpleasantly. "Or is your grace ashamed of being seen in your friend's company?"
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