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"I am sure it must be in the best taste. And then?" "Oh, then Mr. Roger died at sea and left it all, Starden Hall and his money, to Miss Joan Meredyth. And she lives there now, and I suppose she'll go on living there when she is married." "When she is married," he repeated. "To Mr. John Everard of Buddesby, a rare pleasant-spoken, nice gentleman as no one can speak a word against.
"Very well, dear!" she said resignedly. "You are angry with me, Connie?" "Why should you want to go to Starden?" "I want to see her again. I want to to understand, to to know things." "What do you mean, to understand, to know things?" "I want to watch her!" "Ellice, you will make me angry presently.
She had not decided yet, not even if she would ever carry it out, but she might. Day after day saw her on the road; more often than not her way lay towards Starden village. She would ride the six and a half miles to Starden, wait there for a time, and then ride back. She never called at Starden Hall. Helen knew nothing of these trips.
I shall catch the seven-thirty," said Hugh. "I'll order the car round, sir," said Mrs. Morrisey. And this very day at Starden pride broke down; the need was so great. It was not the money that the man demanded, but the bonds that paying it would forge about her, bind her for all time. "Please come to me here. I want your help. I am in great trouble, and there is no one I can turn to but you.
"Marjorie, is it only pity?" he whispered. But she shook her head. "It is love, all my love I know now. It is all ended. I know the truth. Oh, Tom, it it was you all the time, and after all it was only you!" Never so slowly as to-day had John Everard driven the six and a half miles that divided Buddesby and Little Langbourne from Starden.
And so, doing violence to his feelings and his desires, he had left Starden, and now was back in Hurst Dormer, wandering about, looking at the progress the workmen had made during his absence. He had come home, and though he loved the place, its loneliness weighed heavily on him. The rooms seemed empty. He wanted someone to talk things over with, to discuss this and that.
"I shall never kiss Gipsy again," he thought, and, turning, saw her. "So you you didn't go to Church, Gipsy?" "I thought you had gone to Starden." They stood and looked at one another. "No. I don't think I shall go to Starden to-day." "But they expect you." "I I don't think I shall go to-day, Gipsy. Shall we go for a walk across the fields?" "You ought to go to Starden," she said.
I prefer that you should tell her nothing at all. I was very fond of Marjorie, she is a dear little thing, and Lady Linden was very kind to me once, that is why I wrote to her. But now I would sooner forget it all. I shall go down to Starden and live." "Alone?" "I have no one, so I must be alone! Mr.
His wife was dead, his only son was killed in the war, and he had left the whole of his fortune, about three hundred thousand pounds, and the Starden Hall Estate, to his niece, Miss Joan Meredyth." "By George! so the girl's an heiress!" "And a very considerable one!" "We won't say a word about it not a word, Hudson.
There was nothing brigandish or romantic about the appearance of the very ordinary-looking young man who put in an appearance at Starden village. Quite what his plans were, what he proposed doing and how he should do it, Hugh had not the slightest idea. He mistrusted Slotman.
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