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What is his name, Con?" "Slotman." "Don't know it. I suppose I'd better see him. Wait, I'll light the lamp. If Ellice isn't back soon I shall go and hunt for her. Do you know which direction she went in?" "I I think " Connie hesitated; she was never any good at concealment. "I think she went towards Starden." "Then when we've got rid of this fellow I'll get out the car and go and find her.
Slotman practised temporarily a courtesy and a forbearance that were foreign to him. But Mr. Slotman had by no means given up his hopes and desires. Joan appealed to him as no woman ever had. He admired her statuesque beauty. He admired her air of breeding; he admired the very pride that she had attempted to crush him with.
Slotman, and I wish you good morning!" And then she was gone. Slotman walked to the window. He looked down and saw a car, by no means a cheap car, and he knew the value of things, none better. He waited, unauthorised visitor as he now was, and saw the girl come out, saw the liveried chauffeur touch his cap to her and hold the door for her, saw her enter.
"To give me my answer yes, but we won't discuss that now. I want to speak to you about something else." "Something other than money?" "Yes, do you think I always put money first?" "I had thought so, Mr. Slotman." "You do me a wrong a great wrong. There is something that I put far ahead of money, of gold. It is you Joan, listen! you must listen!"
Why, why, why?" she asked of herself frantically, and receiving no answer, rose and for a time paced the room, then came back to the table and sat down once again. Slotman had said he would return, that she would hear. She could imagine how that the man, believing her good name in his power, and at his mercy, would not cease to torment and persecute her. What could she do? To whom could she turn?
"Miss Meredyth was a pupil here at the time you mention, three years ago. It was three years ago that she left." "In June?" Slotman asked. "I think so. Is it important that you know?" "Very!" "I will go and look up my books." In a few minutes Miss Skinner was back. "Miss Meredyth left us in the June of nineteen hundred and eighteen," she said. "Suddenly?" "Somewhat yes, suddenly.
The cloud had passed completely away, and so too had all Helen's plans; yet she did not know it. Slotman opened dazed eyes and looked up into a face that might well have been the face of an angel, so soft, so pitying, so tender was its expression. "Joan!" he whispered. She nodded and smiled. "But," he said "but " and hesitated. "Joan, I went to Buddesby to see " "I know." "And yet you come here?"
Alston had insisted on it that he had nothing to expect in the way of cash from Miss Meredyth. Slotman lay writhing, and cursing and planning vengeance. There were few things that he would not have liked to do to Hugh Alston, but finally he decided he could better hurt Hugh Alston through Joan, so thereafter he devoted his thoughts to Joan.
"You you dare not," Slotman said; his teeth were chattering. "It will mean her name being dragged in the mud, the whole thing coming out. You you dare not do it." "You are right. I dare not, for the sake of her name the name of such a woman must never be uttered in connection with such a thing as yourself. How, then, shall I deal with you? It must be the thrashing, yet it is not enough.
Until lately I was employing a young lady on my staff." "Well?" "Her name was Meredyth, Miss Joan Meredyth." "I don't want to hear anything at all about her," said Lady Linden. "Why you come to me, goodness only knows. If you've come for information I haven't got any. If you want information, the right person to go to is her husband!" "Her her husband!" Mr. Slotman seemed to be choking.
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