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The too sensitive wife died for lack of joy; Alice escaped to Australia with a parson who never accomplished anything but a large family; and Arthur, at the age of seventeen, precociously cursed his father and sought in America a land where there were fewer commandments. Then old Twemlow told his junior partner, John Stanway, that the ways of Providence were past finding out.
'Shall I look? Ryley suggested quietly, approaching the safe, of which the key was in the lock. 'Never mind, now! Never mind, now! Stanway stopped him. 'I don't want to be bothered now. Later on in the afternoon, before Mr. Twemlow comes.... Did you write and ask him to call at four thirty? 'Yes, said Ryley, departing without a sign on his face, the model clerk. 'Fool! whispered Stanway.
John pulled out his immense cigar-case, and the two men began to smoke. 'Come along, said Stanway, speaking thickly with the cigar in his mouth. 'Papa, said Rose ominously, just as he was following Twemlow out of the door. She spoke with quiet, cold distinctness. 'What is it? 'Did you inquire about that? He paused. 'Oh yes, Rose, he answered rapidly. I inquired.
Other rumours, that Ethel Stanway and Fred Ryley were about to be secretly married, that Dain would have been the owner of Prince but for the difference between guineas and pounds, and that the real object of Arthur Twemlow's presence in the Five Towns was to buy up the concern of Twemlow & Stanway, were received with reserve, though not entirely discredited.
The paternal purse was closed, and perhaps not too early, for the improvidence of the tea-blender and Alice's fecundity were a gulf whose depth no munificence could have plumbed. Again John Stanway sympathised with the now enfeebled old man. John advised him to retire, and Twemlow decided to do so, receiving one-third of the net profits of the partnership business during life.
'Yes, of course, Twemlow commented, when the Myatt family-tree had been sketched for him by the united effort of brother and sister, 'I recollect now you told me in Liverpool that Mr. Stanway was married. Who did he marry? Meshach Myatt pushed back his chair and stood up. 'John catched on to Knight's daughter, the doctor at Turnhill, he said, reaching to a cigar-cabinet on the sideboard.
Legally, I'm not sure that I could demand anything of him, unless I could prove very flagrant neglect indeed to guard against theft." "Then I take it, Lord Stanway," Hewitt observed, "that you much prefer the cameo to the money?" "Certainly. Else I should never have been willing to pay the money for the cameo.
Leonora saw with anxiety that her husband, while intending to be calm, pompous, and superior, was, in fact, losing control of himself. 'I mean, said John, 'are you going to distribute them? 'No, nephew. They're well enough where they lie. I shall none touch 'em. Stanway gave the sigh of a martyr who has sufficient spirit to be disdainful.
The members of the Stanway family, in order to avoid the crush in the aisles and portico, always remained in their pew after service, until the chapel had nearly emptied itself; and to-day Leonora chose to sit longer than usual.
Claridge offering a reward of five hundred pounds for the recovery of the cameo. The affair was scribbled off at large in the earliest editions of the evening papers, and by noon all the world was aware of the extraordinary theft of the Stanway Cameo, and many people were discussing the probabilities of the case, with very indistinct ideas of what a sardonyx cameo precisely was.
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