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Updated: June 4, 2025
How the black rage welled up in his heart against the callous brute who had dared to marry Lenore Seymour Stukeley. Colonel de Warrenne wheeled his horse without a word, and rode out of Major Decies' life and that of his son.
Yvette Stukeley returned to her uncle and guardian, General Sir Gerald Seymour Stukeley, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., at Monksmead, nursing a broken heart, and longed for the day when Colonel de Warrenne's child might be sent home to her care. The Major was an original student of theories and facts of Heredity and Pre-natal Influence.
A short time after his arrival the old man who had officiated at Little Bethel had died, and Stukeley, who had from the first taken a prominent part in the service, and who possessed the faculty of fluent speech to a degree rare among the Yorkshiremen, was installed as his successor, and soon filled Little Bethel as it had never been filled before.
Sir Matthew laughed in an ugly manner and replied: "And what is your knavish design now, Sir Seymour Stukeley?" "My design was to warn you of an infallible trick of fence, Sir Matthew. It now is to kill you for the insult, and on behalf of ... your own unhappy daughter." The other yawned and remarked to his friend: "I have a parade in half an hour."
He desired to make amends to Stukeley, but had no means save such as lay in the power of that currency he used. Having naught else to give, he must give that. He plunged his hand into an inner pocket, and brought forth a handful of jewels, which he thrust upon his kinsman. "Courage," he urged him.
Stukeley was quite convinced that the Royston cave was the oratory of the Lady Rohesia, daughter of Aubrey de Vere, who succeeded his father in 1088, but there exists no evidence that she ever lived at Royston. The place takes its name from Rohesia, daughter of Eudo Dapifer.
The reply, which arrived in a day or two, appeared from its redundancy and incoherence to be the composition of Miss Yvette Seymour Stukeley, and bade Major Decies either send or bring the infant Damocles to Monksmead immediately. The Major decided to apply forthwith for such privilege-leave and furlough as were due to him, and to proceed to England with the boy.
Stukeley combed his beard in thought. He had little comfort to offer. "It was not expected," said he, "that you would return. "Not expected?" Sir Walter's bowed white head was suddenly flung back. Indignation blazed in the eyes that age had left undimmed. "What act in all my life justified the belief I should be false to honour?
The Haddock, it may be stated, owed his fishy title to the fact that he once possessed a Wealthy Relative of the name of Haddon. With far-sighted reversionary intent his mother, a Mrs. Berners née Seymour Stukeley, had christened him Haddon.
Sir Seymour lunged hard for his ribs, beneath the right arm-pit and, as the other's sword swooped down to catch his, twist it over, and riposte, he feinted, cleared the descending sword, and thrust at the throat. A swift ducking crouch let the sword pass over the strong man's head, and only a powerful French circular parry saved the life of Sir Seymour Stukeley.
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