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"Why?" he asked. This was all the encouragement Leslie needed. "I'll tell you, so far as I've got the hang of the thing; I thought you'd like to know. It seems Prescott has been away somewhere for a few days and should have got home last night. He came in on the train in the evening, and Harper drove him out and dropped him at Wandle's trail; Prescott said he wanted to see the man.
"You're not quite so important to us now; and I'm not running much risk, anyway, considering the horse you've got." It was noon on the day after Wandle's flight, and Jernyngham was sitting with his friends in a room of the Leslie homestead when Muriel, looking out of the window, saw Prescott's hired man ride up at a gallop.
When Prescott went to sleep it was with a weight off his mind; but his mood changed the next day and he traveled back to Sebastian in a very grim humor. Open and just as he was in all his dealings, Wandle's treachery infuriated him.
Wandle's trial would free him of suspicion; when he had stood facing Jernyngham, Muriel had revealed her love for him, and since it could not be doubted, he need not hesitate. It was her right to choose whether she would marry him. Only she must clearly realize all that this would imply. He had expected some opposition from Mrs.
For a few moments Jernyngham looked irresolute, and then he got up. "I'll come with you to Sebastian. I think I'd have gone earlier, only Ellice had the horse and rig, and Wandle's using the wagon team. It's no doubt my duty to sue for peace."
Marcella wavered; then, with her most forbidding air, she made a scarcely perceptible return of Lord Wandle's bow. "Did you escape in here out of the heat?" he asked her. "But I am afraid no one lets you escape to-night. The occasion is too interesting." Marcella made no reply. Lady Winterbourne threw in a nervous remark on the crowd. "Oh, yes, a great crush," said Lord Wandle.
We might get him sent up for fraud and forgery, but if he had anything to do with knocking Jernyngham out, he'll be more likely to give us a clue of some kind while he's at large." They rode on and reaching Wandle's farm searched the house carefully, replacing everything exactly as they found it. They discovered nothing of importance, but as they went out Curtis glanced at the ash and refuse heap.
The leaves lay thickly together, a foot or two in depth, and the place looked suitable for his purpose. A stream of light suddenly broke out from the door of the homestead and Wandle's hand closed quickly on the match; somebody was crossing from the house to the stable with a lantern.
He determined to secure a proof of Wandle's guilt, unassisted, without further loss of time, and to do this he must obtain a specimen of the man's writing to compare with that on the land sale documents. There was, he thought, a way of getting it. Reaching Sebastian in the evening, he was going to the livery-stable to hire a team when he met an acquaintance who offered to drive him home.
Jernyngham means to get hold of him and insist upon an explanation of what they are doing." Muriel leaned forward in her chair. She looked anxious, for no news of anything that had happened since Wandle's flight had reached the neighborhood.
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