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"Why, yes, to be sure; it had escaped my mind for the moment," her father answered, rather vaguely she thought; then, looking at Darrell, he said, "Walcott is coming to-morrow for my final decision in that matter." Darrell bowed in token that he understood, but did not feel at liberty to inquire whether the decision was to be favorable to Mr. Walcott, or otherwise.
'You were always too hard on her, Sydney, Brooke was saying, 'and now you have admitted as much. 'I don't wish to be hard on her, but I can't bear that man, Campion said meaning Walcott, of course. 'Well, Dalton said, I am perfectly sure that she would not have stuck to him through thick and thin, so bravely and so purely, unless she had been convinced of his innocence.
There was that Walcott affair, too, which had lately come to Sir John's ears, a very awkward affair for Campion to have his sister's name mixed up in. Probably that was the reason why he was holding back. Very nice of Campion, very nice. And Sir John became doubly cordial in his manner, and pressed Sydney to dine with him next week. With some reluctance, Sydney accepted the invitation.
"Yes," he went on, "you owe me your sympathy now. You have given me so much that you must give me more. I have a right to it." "Mr. Walcott!" said Lettice, raising her head quickly, "you can have no right " "No right to sympathy from a friend? Well, perhaps not," he answered bitterly. "I thought that, although you were a woman, you could allow me the claim I make. It is small enough, God knows!
When Alan came in, and Clara, who had expected to see a face lined and marred with sorrow, found that he too had caught the radiance of unblemished happiness, she felt that Lettice had not spent her strength in vain. And she went home and renewed her efforts to make her husband see things as she saw them, and to give Alan Walcott his countenance in the literary world.
Kate knows that I consider only her best interests, and I think her judgment could be brought to coincide with my own. At any rate, she knows her father's will is law." As Darrell, convinced that argument would be useless, made no reply, Mr. Underwood added, after a pause, "I know I can trust to your honor that you will not influence her against Walcott?"
Every day come new reports of failures; every day confidence diminishes; every day some prop that we leaned upon is taken away." "Many think we are at the worst," said Mr. Walcott. "And others, that we have scarcely seen the beginning of the end," returned the neighbour. And so, as they walked homeward, they discouraged each other, and made darker the clouds that obscured their whole horizon.
"Accept my gratitude, Miss Underwood, for having made my entrée to your home much pleasanter, not to say safer." "I neither claim nor accept your gratitude, Mr. Walcott," Kate replied, with cool dignity, "since I did it simply out of regard for Duke's welfare and not out of any consideration whatever for your wishes in the matter."
She saw nothing of the mysterious woman who had styled herself a friend, but on more than one occasion she had a fleeting glimpse of the man who on that memorable day brought the message from her to Walcott, and Kate felt that a dénouement of some kind was near. Walcott's preparations were nearly perfected; another week would complete them.
"I have as much money as I want more than you are ever likely to have, mademoiselle. You are very naive, mon enfant. You invite me into your room Lettice Campion invites Cora Walcott into her room! where nobody knows us, nobody could trace us and you quietly ask me to eat and drink! Eat and drink in this house? It is so likely! How am I to tell, for example, if your coffee is not poisoned?
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