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Other circumstances to be noted were that Dick had gone back to town some while ago, but would return almost immediately now for the grouse-shooting; that Archie and Lord Talgarth were both up at the house indeed, she had caught sight of them in the red-curtained chancel-pew this morning, and had exchanged five words with them both after the service and that in all other respects other things were as they had been a month ago.
Partington himself returning home to his family for Christmas, and it was Dick, who came on guard about five, who had seen the Major or, rather, what was to him merely a shabby and excited man leave and then return to the "Queen's Arms" during his hour's watch. After the amazing and shocking news, however, of the accident to Lord Talgarth and Archie, the precautions had been doubled.
There was but one possibility left which Lord Talgarth instinctively rather than consciously grasped at namely, that an increased fury on his part should once more bring realities back again to a melodramatic level, and leave himself, as father, master both of the situation and of his most disconcerting son.
"I shall design a piece of emblematic jewelry," said Dick very gravely. "When's the wedding to be?" "Well, we hadn't settled. Lord Talgarth wouldn't make up his mind. I suppose next summer some time." "Miss Jenny " "Yes?" "Tell me quite seriously what you'd do if there was a real row a permanent one, I mean between Frank and my uncle?" "Dear Mr. Dick don't talk so absurdly.
Usually Jenny rode home alone with the groom to take back her mare to the stables. It was the first time, so far as he could remember, that Lord Talgarth had taken the trouble to escort her all the way home himself. It really was very pleasant indeed, and very creditable to Jenny's tact, that relations were so cordial.... And they were dining there to-morrow, too.
It was a delicious evening, and the three men, after dinner, strolled out on to the broad terrace that ran, looking over the lake, straight up and down the long side of the house. They had not had the advantage, since the servants were in the room, of talking over the situation as they wished, and there was no knowing when Lord Talgarth and Jenny might emerge.
What Lord Talgarth would really have wished was that Frank should have written to him a submissive even though a disobedient letter, telling him that he could not forego his convictions, and preparing to assume the rôle of a Christian martyr. For he could have sneered at this, and after suitable discipline forgiven its writer more or less.
Frank had behaved like this in minor matters once or twice before, and Lord Talgarth had always come off victor. After all, he commanded all the accessories.
The college prospered at once, and even Berridge bestowed his characteristic blessing upon it. "I am glad to hear of the plentiful effusion from above on Talgarth. Jesus has now baptized your college, and thereby shown His approbation of the work. You may therefore rejoice, but rejoice with trembling.
Then they read over the account of the smash in the Star newspaper special edition. It seemed to have been nobody's fault. The brake had refused to act going down a steep hill; they had run into a wall; the chauffeur had been thrown clean over it; the two passengers had been pinned under the car. Lord Talgarth was dead at once; Archie had died five minutes after being taken out.
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