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So, after a good deal of discussion, the matter was settled; and here we are, with the house all to ourselves, and the prospect of being alone together for six months to come. I asked her if she had seen much of Mr. Stormont since that memorable Sunday afternoon.
"They cost me five dollars apiece." "Confederate money," added a colonel, Stormont; "and you'll be lucky if you get 'em next year for ten dollars apiece." Colonel Stormont's eyes followed Prescott's round the room and he laughed. "Yes, Captain Prescott," he said, "we are a somewhat peculiar company.
The next day and several days passed very quietly, and in a kind of monotonous comfort. The rector of the parish dined with us one day, and on another a neighbouring squire with his wife and three daughters. Milly and I spent a good deal of our time in the gardens and on the sea-shore, with Julian Stormont for our companion, while Mr. and Mrs. Darrell rode or drove together.
I envied her those wanderings in sunny foreign lands, even though they had been made in the company of an invalid dowager, and I wondered whether she would be happy in a settled existence at Thornleigh. After dinner Milly took me out upon the terrace, and from thence we went to explore the gardens. We had not been out long before Julian Stormont came to join us.
"Investors are a suspicious lot," Stormont went on. "They don't like to lose their money, and you must admit that there's not much to encourage buyers of your shares to run the risk. The ore is rich, but we are up against obstacles that your manager is obviously unable to remove. In fact, my scheme ought to work out for your benefit." The sneer at Thirlwell roused Agatha.
In justice to the cabinet of 1780, it must be acknowledged that the personal tone of the ambassador was criticised; and we thus find him making his diplomatic apology to Lord Stormont, then secretary for foreign affairs:
When Stormont got over his disappointment he would try again. Drummond saw that he could embarrass Stormont by selling the secret he had been cheated of to somebody else. It was amusing to think of two parties looking for the vein; the difficulty was that he did not know anybody likely to be a buyer.
He recrossed the Tay, and halted at Scone to refresh himself and his men at the charges of Lord Stormont, an involuntary act of hospitality on the latter's part for which he had some trouble to excuse himself in Edinburgh. While in the wilds of Badenoch Dundee had received another message which had interested him much.
"There's a train just before the meeting. Will you go to the station?" "Yes," said Agatha. "I feel he will be there." "Then you'll hold us up; that train is often late," George grumbled. "Have you got a hint about what Stormont wants?" Agatha asked Scott. "Not yet, but we'll know soon. I expect George told you Stormont has floated a company to work the claims his men staked behind our block."
The will had been made a few months after Mr. Darrell's second marriage. It was very simple in its wording. To Julian Stormont he left a sum of five thousand pounds, to be paid out his funded property; all the rest of this property, with the sum to be realised by the sale of the business at North Shields and its belongings an amount likely to be very large was to be divided equally between Mrs.
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