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By supper-time Lichfield had so industriously embroidered the Stapylton dinner and the ensuing marriage with hypotheses and explanations and unparented rumors that none of the participants in the affair but could advantageously have exchanged reputations with Benedict Arnold or Lucretia Borgia, had Lichfield believed a tithe of what Lichfield was repeating.
In a word, Patricia found that she and the colonel could for the future count upon a little more than half of the income she had previously been allowed by Roger Stapylton. "It isn't fair!" she said. "It's monstrous! And all because you were so obstinate about your picayune Library!" "Patricia " he began. "Oh, I tell you it's absurd, Olaf! The money logically ought to have been left to me.
But not for long; no, for, in sober earnest, if some fantastic sequence of events had made his one chance of winning Patricia Stapylton dependent on his spending a miserable half-hour in her company, Rudolph Musgrave could not have done it. As for Miss Stapylton, she appeared to delight in the cloistered, easy-going life of Lichfield.
The advance party were now almost within the settled districts, and with the safe arrival of Stapylton at the Murrumbidgee, on November 11th, the history of the discovery of AUSTRALIA FELIX ends.
It was a peaked and shrewish Patricia, rather than Rudolph Musgrave, who fought out the long and obstinate battle with Roger Stapylton. She was jealous at the bottom of her heart.
It was characteristic of Colonel Musgrave that he went about answering the question without delay. The Stapletons for "Stapylton" was a happy innovation of Roger Stapylton's dead wife the colonel knew to have been farmers in Brummell County, and Brummell Courthouse is within an hour's ride, by rail, of Lichfield. So he set about his labor of love. And in it he excelled himself.
Stapylton, with the aid of two watermen, whom he had hired for that purpose, in a dark night seized the person of Lewis, and, after a struggle, dragged him on his back into the water, and thence into a boat lying in the Thames, where, having first tied his legs, they endeavoured to gag him by running a stick into his mouth; and then rowing down to a ship bound for Jamaica, whose commander was previously engaged in the wicked conspiracy, they put him on board, to be sold as a slave on his arrival in the island. The negro's cries, however, were heard; the struggle was witnessed; and information given in the quarter whence aid was most likely to come.
Miss Stapylton, too, smiled a little. "No," said she, "that isn't quite the reason. The real reason is, as I told you yesterday, that I quite fail to see how you can expect any woman to marry you, you jay-bird, if you won't go to the trouble of asking her to do so." And, this time, Miss Stapylton did not go into the house.
Do you quite understand that fact, Patricia?" "Oh, but you are an idiot ." "In wanting you, my dear?" "Please put me down." She thoroughly enjoyed her helplessness. He saw it, long before he lowered her. "Why, not so much in that," said Miss Stapylton, "because inasmuch as I am a woman of superlative charm, of course you can't help yourself. But how do you know that Dr.
The man Colonel Musgrave found there was big and loose-jointed, with traces of puffiness about his face. He had wheat-colored hair and weakish-looking, pale blue eyes. One of his arms was about Miss Stapylton, but he released her now, and blinked at Rudolph Musgrave. "And who are you, pray?" he demanded, querulously. "What do you want, anyhow?
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