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It was private from the outer world, save for the iron gates, and here Decima and Lucy Tempest were fond of lingering on a fine day. On this afternoon of Mary Tynn's discovery, they were there with Lionel. Decima went indoors for some string to tie up a fuchsia plant, just as Tynn appeared at the iron gates. She stopped on seeing Lionel.
West consulted, then, by Mr. Verner?" "Not at all. When I called at Verner's Pride with the fresh will for Mr. Verner to execute, it happened that Tynn was out. He and one of the other servants were to have witnessed the signature. Dr. West came in at the time, and Mr. Verner said he would do for a witness in Tynn's place. Dr. West remonstrated most strongly when he found what it was; for Mr.
Scarcely, while that pained heart of his, those coursing pulses, could beat on in this tumultuous manner at the bare sound of her name. In the silence that ensued for neither felt inclined to break it they heard a voice in the hall below, inquiring whether Mr. Verner was within. Lionel recognised it as Tynn's. "For all I know he is," answered old Catherine.
It's as sure that he is back, and in the neighbourhood, as that you and me is here at this gate. He is alive and he is among us as certain as that you are Mr. Tynn, and I be Giles Roy." There came flashing over Tynn's thoughts the scene of that very evening.
There may have run in Tynn's mind some vague fear of violence, should his master and Frederick Massingbird come in contact. How did Lionel pass it? Wakeful and watchful as Tynn. He went to bed; but sleep, for him, there was none. His wife, by his side, slept all through the night.
Roy who was standing now, his elbow leaning on the gate brought his face nearer to Tynn's. Tynn was also leaning on the gate. "Have you heered of this ghost that's said to be walking about Deerham?" he asked, lowering his voice to a whisper. "Have you heered whose they say it is?" Now, Tynn had heard. All the retainers, male and female, at Verner's Pride had heard.
The impression upon Tynn's mind was that Frederick Massingbird was coming there and then, to invade Verner's Pride: it appeared to Tynn to be his duty to impart what he had heard and seen at once to Mr. Verner. Circumstances favoured him. Lionel had been talking with Mr. Gordon at the far end of the terrace, but the latter was called to from the drawing-room windows and departed in answer to it.
Tynn's opinion had been he had told it to his master that when he saw Frederick Massingbird steal into the grounds of Verner's Pride the previous evening, he was coming on to the house, there and then. Perhaps Lionel himself had entertained the same conviction. But the night had passed, and no Frederick Massingbird had come. What could be the meaning of it?
"What has its grandeur got to do with it?" was Mary Tynn's answer. She knew but little of French phrases. "Now, then, what for you stand there, with your eyes staring and your hands idle?" demanded Mademoiselle Benoite sharply, turning her attack on Phoeby. "If you'll tell me what to do, I'll do it," replied the girl. "I could help to put the things up, if you'd show me where to begin."
"I never was away from the room above two minutes at a time, sir," was the woman's reply, "and then either Mr. Lionel or Tynn would be with him. But, if any of 'em did come in, it's not possible they'd get picking at the master's desk to take out a paper. What good would the paper do any of the servants?" Mrs. Tynn's question was a pertinent one.
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