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Dale had been indiscreet, had probably blurted out his employer's title, and Mrs. Devar knew at last who the chauffeur was whose interference had baffled her plans. He laughed bitterly, but did not pursue the inquiry any further. "Can you clean coachwork and brass?" he asked, stooping to unlock the toolbox. The stableman shuffled uneasily from one foot to the other.
As for Rex himself, I guess he's gone where he won't run away any more," and leaning over the jagged edge of the bridge the stableman looked down on the motionless form of the horse. Rex had, indeed, run his last. "It is all so so surprising to me," went on the stranger. "It all occurred with such unexpected suddenness.
"How about the horse and buggy?" "Oh, we'll catch the horse in a day or two it's a spoiled colt, anyway and we'll patch up the buggy if she's patchable. If not, we'll leave it. Usual programme." The stableman and Tally lit their pipes. Nobody seemed much interested now that the amusement was over.
"That tall, smooth-faced man, in a high hat, who came with the lady," said the clerk severely and concisely, "didn't you tell me he was gone?" "Yes, sir," said the stableman. "Are you sure?" interrupted Mrs. Barker, with a dazzling smile that, however, masked a sudden tightening round her heart.
"I'm not setting out to recruit your union local, but if the company wants to recruit it, that's the company's affair!" And on this bargain the two shook hands. Hal was now started upon a new career, more full of excitements than that of stableman or buddy, with perils greater than those of falling rock or the hind feet of mules in the stomach.
"I don't know what you call dull," replied the old man, as if half offended at the suggestion. "I don't believe a soul missed his lordship when he died; and there's always Mrs. Blakesley and me, as is the best friends in the world, besides the three maids and the stableman, who helps me in the garden, now there's no horses. And then there's Jacob and "
"I proceed," said the chemist. "'Monsieur Bovary, one of our most distinguished practitioners, performed an operation on a club-footed man called Hippolyte Tautain, stableman for the last twenty-five years at the hotel of the "Lion d'Or," kept by Widow Lefrancois, at the Place d'Armes.
I believe I must have been talking to myself in Peg's stall at any rate, just at this moment the stableman appeared and looked very bewildered when he saw me, with flushed face and in obvious excitement, talking to the horse. I asked him when was the next train to Port Vigor. "Well, ma'am," he said, "they say that all the local trains is held up till the wreck at Willdon's cleared away.
When the Mercury stopped in front of a comfortable inn at Yeovil it was she, and not Cynthia, who suggested a social departure. "This seems to be the only place in the town where luncheon is provided. You had better leave the car in charge of a stableman, and join us, Fitzroy," she said graciously. "Thank you, madam," said Medenham, rousing himself from a reverie, "I prefer to remain here.
Arriving straight from a train journey, he had wanted to wash. But he would not go to the specially prepared bedroom, where a perfect apparatus awaited him. No, he must needs take off his jacket in the back room and roll up his sleeves and stamp into the scullery and there splash and rub like a stableman, and wipe himself on the common rough roller-towel. He said he preferred the "sink."
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