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Still he wrote a very interesting letter, which, after the pudding had been consumed to the last spoonful, Anthony read aloud while the girls ate apples and cracked nuts with their teeth. "Dear me! George seems to be very unwell," said Mrs. Walrond. "Yes," answered Anthony, "I am afraid he is.
"Come, my father," called Barbara to that spirit who in the flesh had been named Septimus Walrond, "come, you who are holy, and pray that light may be given to us." So he came and prayed and from the Heavens above fell a vision in answer to his prayer.
It bears a motto and the date 1586, and owes its origin to Humfrey Walrond. Ilton, a village on the Ile, 2 m. N. of Ilminster. It has a church of some interest. Keinton-Mandeville, a large village 4 m. E.N.E. of Somerton, lying for the most part along the Castle Cary road, with a station on the Castle Cary and Langport loop-line. The church is in a field at the S. extremity of the village.
Among its members were included Colonel W. Lambton, who was Military Secretary; Captain Henley and Lord Brooke, A.D.C.'s; and Mr. Walrond.
Walrond was summoned hastily to the Hall. When he returned from his ministrations it was to announce in a sad voice that Captain Arnott was sinking fast. Before the following morning he was dead. A month or so after the grave had closed over Captain Arnott the engagement of Anthony and Barbara was announced formally, and by the express wish of Mr. Arnott.
My uncle was by this time the father of three small boys, Tom, Trevenen alias Budge and Richard "Diddy." We went first to the telegraph station at Charing Cross. Then, about 4, we got a message from Walrond "nothing certain is known, but it is rumored that you are ahead."
Poulett, £0 3s. 4d.; Horse-hire, and for the Sergeant to ride to Mr. Walrond, of Bovey, and for a loaf of sugar, and for conserves given there to Mr. Poppel, £1 1s. 0d.; Wine and sugar given to Judge Anderson, £0 3s. 4d. A bottle and sugar given to Mr.
But as it happened Mr. Walrond did not live long, for one evening he was found dead in the church, whither he often went to pray. About this time the doctors told Barbara that her condition of health was somewhat serious. It seemed that her lungs also showed signs of being affected.
About such happiness as this there is something alarming, something ominous. Mrs. Walrond felt it from the first, and they, the two persons concerned, felt it also. "Our joy frightens me," said Anthony to Barbara one day.
Walrond was ill at ease about this marriage, why she did not know. Something in her heart seemed to tell her that her dear daughter's happiness would not be of long continuance. Bearing in mind his family history, she feared for Anthony's health; indeed, she feared a hundred things that she was quite unable to define.
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