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But he gave it up as too much for him, and merely said nervously with the sudden flush of weakness: "I'm afraid you've been put to great expense, sir. But it's all right. As soon as they'll let me sign a check, I'll pay my debts." "Good gracious, don't trouble your head about that!" said Melrose rising. "This house is at your disposal. Undershaw I daresay will tell you tales of me.
Tatham frankly expressed his surprise and admiration. The whole gallery and both of its terminal windows had now been cleared. The famous series of rose-coloured tapestries, of which Undershaw had seen the first specimens, had been hung at intervals throughout its length; and from the stores of the house had been brought out more carpets, more cabinets, mirrors, pictures, fine eighteenth-century chairs, settees, occasional tables, and what not. Hastily as it had been done, the brilliance of the effect was great. There was not, there could not be, the beauty that comes from old use and habit from the ordered life of generations moving among and gradually adapting to itself a number of lovely things. Tatham brought up amid the surroundings of Duddon was scornfully conscious of the bric-
"When the room is in order, he will use it exactly as he likes." Undershaw shrugged his shoulders, anxious to escape to his consultation. "Let us discuss it again to-morrow. I have told you what I think best." He turned to go. "Will you give that order to Barclay?" Undershaw laughed. "If I do, I mustn't be taken as aiding and abetting you. But of course if you wish it."
Faversham shook his head. "Thank you impossible." Then he looked up. "Undershaw told you what I told him?" Tatham assented. There was an awkward pause broken at last by Faversham. "How did Miss Melrose get home?" "Luckily I came across her at the foot of the Duddon hill, and I helped her home. She's all right though of course it's a ghastly shock for them."
Men who four months before had been eager to welcome Faversham to his new office now passed him in the street without recognition. At the County Club to which he had been easily elected, Colonel Barton proposing him, he was conspicuously cut by Barton himself, Squire Andover and many others following suit. "An impostor, and a cad!" said Barton fiercely to Undershaw.
Tatham discussed them now with Undershaw in a tone of passionate bitterness. The doctor said little. He had his own shrewd ideas on the situation.
There is a whole tribe of Melrose's hangers-on who hate Faversham like poison; who have been plotting to pull him down, and will be furious to find him after all in secure possession of the estate and the money. I feel tolerably certain they will put up some charge or other." "What of procuring the thing?" Undershaw nodded. Tatham considered a moment.
He threw open the drawing-room a dreary, disused room, with its carpets rolled up in one corner, and its scanty furniture piled in another. The candle held by Mrs. Dixon lit up the richly decorated ceiling. "Can't you do anything better?" asked Undershaw, turning upon her vehemently. "Don't you keep a spare bedroom in this place?" "Noa, we doan't!" said Mrs. Dixon, with answering temper.
After all, the fortune was legally his; and if Melrose had died intestate, Felicia and her mother would only have shared with some remote heirs with far less claim than Faversham. He owed this change of temper he knew simply to the story which Undershaw had brought him of the last scene between Faversham and Melrose.
'After all the teaching I have bestowed upon you, Doyle, is it possible that you cannot deduct even so simple a thing as that? Why am I here? Because Sir George made a mistake about those bags. He was quite right in taking one of them to 'Undershaw', but he should have left the other at 221B, Baker Street.
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