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Wardlaw fell into silence, reflecting that he had been a fool. His wife, with a timid flush, drew out her knitting, and stuck to it for the twenty minutes that remained. Catherine immediately did her best to talk, to be pleasant; but the discomfort of the little party was too great. It broke up at ten, and the Wardlaws departed.
"For Heaven's sake, don't say that!" he cried. "Why not, sir?" said Helen; "it is the truth; and I have got the testimony of dying men to prove it." "I am sorry for it. Pray don't let anybody know. Why, Wardlaws would lose the insurance of 160,000 pounds." "Arthur Wardlaw knows it. My father told him." "And he never told me," said Penfold, with growing surprise.
Hennessy, and with the proofs of Arthur's guilt and Robert's innocence; and he undertook that the matter should go in proper form before the Secretary of State. But, somehow, it transpired that the Proserpine had been scuttled, and several of the underwriters wrote to the Wardlaws to threaten proceedings.
Wardlaw fell into silence, reflecting that he had been a fool. His wife, with a timid flush, drew out her knitting and stuck to it for the twenty minutes that remained. Catherine immediately did her best to talk, to be pleasant; but the discomfort of the little party was too great. It broke up at ten, and the Wardlaws departed.
So he made it a point, tenderly but insistently, that Catherine should ask Wardlaw and his wife to come and see them. And Catherine, driven obscurely by a longing to yield in something, which recurred, and often terrified herself, yielded in this. The Wardlaws, who in general never went into society, were asked to a quiet dinner in Bedford Square, and came.
So he made it a point, tenderly but insistently, that Catherine should ask Wardlaw and his wife to come and see them. And Catherine, driven obscurely by a longing to yield in something, which recurred, and often terrified herself, yielded in this. The Wardlaws, who in general never went into society, were asked to a quiet dinner in Bedford Square, and came.
Arthur Wardlaw, but that the judge had stopped him, and said he could only aggravate his offense by endeavoring to cast a slur upon the Wardlaws, who had both shown a manifest desire to shield him, but were powerless for want of evidence.
He looked toward Helen, and his first impulse was to communicate it to her. But, on second thoughts, he preferred to put a question to her first. "You have never told the Wardlaws what those sailors said?" "No, papa. I still think they ought to have been told; but you know you positively forbade me." "Of course I did. Why afflict the old gentleman with such a tale?
At this last piece of information Wardlaw junior leaned his head on the table and groaned aloud, and a cold perspiration gathered in beads upon his white forehead. THAT same evening sat over their tea, in Norfolk Street, Strand, another couple, who were also father and son; but, in this pair, the Wardlaws were reversed.
As a matter of fact, his manner was such that he attracted even the vagrant interest of the Wardlaws. "I do not know how much of his suspicions Commissioner Leslie has communicated to you," he resumed, "but I believe that you have all heard of the disease beriberi so common in the Far East and known to the Japanese as kakke.
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