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Soper was chief proprietor of several newspapers in direct opposition to the group controlled by Southbourne, and he certainly had made me more than one advantageous offer, the latest only a week or two back, just after my Russian articles appeared in The Courier. "I didn't suppose you were, though I know he wants you," Southbourne rejoined.
I felt myself guided along by the grip on my arm that was like a red-hot vice; there were people pressing about me, all talking at once, and shaking hands with me. I heard Southbourne say, sharper and quicker than I'd ever heard him speak before: "Here, look out! Stand back, some of you!" The next I knew I was lying on a leather sofa with my head resting on something soft.
Cayley know as soon as possible," he said, jotting the details in his note-book. "What about Lord Southbourne?" "I'll send word to him later." I felt distinctly guilty with respect to Southbourne. I ought, of course, to have communicated with him or rather have got Freeman to do so as soon as I began to pull round; but somehow I'd put off the unpleasant duty.
There were three roads out of Sandbourne-on-Sea; the London road; a road across the cliffs to the west; and a road across the cliffs to the east. The easterly road led to Northbourne, a sea-side town some six or seven miles away, the westerly road to Southbourne, some fifteen miles off. London lay sixty miles to the north.
"Old Lady Ashley. Sir Philip has married and gone to the Antipodes." "Married Margaret? I always thought that would be the end of it." "You are quite wrong. He married a Miss Smithies, a very rich girl, I believe. And Margaret is engaged to a certain Lord Southbourne who is also very rich, I believe." "Little Southbourne!" exclaimed Wyvis, with a sudden burst of laughter. "You don't say so!
Lord Southbourne was an exceptionable viscount with weak brains and a large rent-roll whom Margaret had refused six months before. "I am sure he would, my darling; I will ask him," said Lady Caroline, with great satisfaction. And she noticed that Margaret's watch for an unknown visitor had now come to its natural end.
I landed at Queensboro' on a typical English November afternoon; raw and dark, with a drizzle falling that threatened every moment to thicken into a regular fog. There were very few passengers, and I thought at first I was going to have the compartment to myself; but, at the last moment, a man got in whom I recognized at once as Lord Southbourne.
"I didn't give him the key in the first instance." "Now will you tell me, Mr. Wynn, why, when you left Lord Southbourne, you did not go straight home? That's a point that may prove important." "I didn't feel inclined to turn in just then, so I went for a stroll." "In the rain?" "It wasn't raining then; it was a lovely night for a little while, till the second storm came on, and my hat blew off."
It was, as he had said, a mere statement of facts, and I mentally determined to seize an early opportunity of interviewing Von Eckhardt when I arrived at Petersburg. "You needn't have troubled to question me," resumed Southbourne, in his most nonchalant manner. "I meant to tell you the little I know, for your own protection.
While my cousin prattled on, I was recalling the events of a few hours back. I must have been mistaken, after all! What a fool I had been! Why hadn't I gone straight to Kensington after I left Lord Southbourne? I should have spared myself a good deal of misery.
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