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"Joan, I have much to be very, very grateful to you for," he said, as he held her hand. "You were right. Life without love would be impossible, and you have made life very possible for me." She was thinking of this during the lonely drive back to Starden; always his words came back to her.
I've got quite a lot to chat about at Buddesby, and I shan't be done when I'm through there either. There's a nice little inn in Starden, isn't there? If one talked much there it would soon get about the place!" Under cover of the darkness her cheeks flamed, but her voice was still as cold and as steady as before.
The day you left that there nosey Parker of a gel Alice Betts came. I couldn't make out whatever she came for. Me, I don't 'old with them Bettses, anyhow she came. It was her brother that brought you that letter from Miss Joan Meredyth the day you went, sir, and she said something about 'earing as I'd lost my lodger." "I see. And who is Alice Betts?" "Her she be a maid at Starden Hall."
His only son was killed, poor fellow, in the War. There was no one else, the will leaves everything to you unconditionally. Through myself he had purchased the old place, Starden Hall, only a few months before his death, and it was his intention to live there. So the house and the money become yours, Miss Meredyth.
"Con has told you?" She nodded silently. Then suddenly he stretched out his arms to her, a moment more and she was in them, her face against his breast. "... I came to Starden because I believed you might need me. You did, and the help that you wanted I gave gladly and willingly. Now your enemy is removed; he can do you no more harm.
"I suppose so," Slotman said, apparently indifferently. "And did you hear the name of the place she had come into?" "I did. Something Den all places in Kent are something or other Den. Oh, Starden! That's it! Well, I must go. But tell me, what's your opinion about those Calbary Reef Preferentials?" Ten minutes later Slotman was alone, frowning at thought.
So she wondered a little, and puzzled a little, and worried a little why Johnny Everard should suddenly have left off paying almost daily visits to Starden. "I like Connie, and I shall be glad to see her," said Joan. "I wish Johnny were coming instead of " "So do I!" said Joan heartily. "I like him, I think, even more than I like Connie.
He had watched her, his soul in his eyes, the woman he loved and who was not for him, could never be for him now, and there fell upon him a sense of desolation, of loneliness, of utter hopelessness. Three days had passed since his coming to Starden. He had seen Joan twice, he had seen the man she was to marry.
I promised that when you came I would take you to her. You have heard about her of course?" Helen added to John. "Only a little, that she is an heiress, and has come into Starden." "She was very poor, poor child, and I think she had a hard and bitter time of it. Then the wheel of fortune took a turn. Her uncle died, and left her Starden and a great deal of money. So here she is."
Silence fell on them. "Don't think about it any more, you can't help me. Hugh, where have you been all this long time?" "I have been in Kent, at Starden." "Is is that where she " "Joan? Yes! she lives there. I have been there, believing I can help her, and I shall help her!" "You you love her so?"
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