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A telegraphum came from Wardlaws' last night, as he was to go to Scotland first thing this morning; and he went at six o'clock." "Oh, dear! How unfortunate!" "Who shall I say called, miss?" "Thank you, I will write. What time did the telegram come?" "Between five and six last evening, miss." She returned to the hotel. Fate seemed to be against her. Baffled at the very threshold!
"I don't know it; but I think so, because the type and paper are like that journal; the conductors are fond of clean type; so am I. Why, here is another misstatement; the judge never said he aggravated his offense by trying to cast a slur upon the Wardlaws. I'll swear the judge never said a syllable of the kind.
You might relax that, now he tells you he will co-operate with you as your husband. Now, Helen, tell the truth is it a woman's work? Have you found it so? Will not Arthur do it better than you?" Helen, weakened already by days of suffering, began to cry, and say, "What shall I do? what shall I do?" "If you have any doubt, my dear," said Sir Edward, "then think of what I owe to these Wardlaws."
Both the Wardlaws were in full dress, according to the invariable custom of the house; and sat in a dead silence, that seemed natural to the great sober room. This, however, was not for want of a topic; on the contrary, they had a matter of great importance to discuss, and in fact this was why they dined tete-a-tete.
He no longer regretted his crime, nor the loss of the Proserpine. Helen was alive and well, and attributed not her danger, but only her preservation, to the Wardlaws. Wardlaw senior kept his carriage in town, and precisely at eight o'clock they drove up to the door of the hotel.
Before they landed, her fortitude seemed to return; and of her own accord she begged her father to telegraph to the Wardlaws. "Would you not like a day to compose yourself, and prepare for this trying interview?" said he. "I should. But it is mere weakness. And I must cure myself of my weakness, or I shall never clear Robert Penfold. And then, papa, I think of you. If old Mr.
Well, then, I expect you to show me you are what she thinks you, and are not what a court of justice has proclaimed you. Sir, this young lady is engaged with her own free will to a gentleman who is universally esteemed, and has never been accused to his face of any unworthy act. Relying on her plighted word, the Wardlaws have fitted out a steamer and searched the Pacific, and found her.
At last, after a rapid voyage, they drew near the English coast; and then General Rolleston, who had hitherto spared her feelings, and been most indulgent and considerate, felt it was high time to come to an understanding with her as to the course they should both pursue. "Now, Helen," said he, "about the Wardlaws!" Helen gave a slight shudder.
The tears came into the stout old warrior's eyes at this sudden sunshine of royal favor, and Helen kissed old Wardlaw of her own accord; and the star of the Wardlaws rose into the ascendant, and for a time Robert Penfold seemed to be quite forgotten. The very day General Rolleston became Sir Edward, a man and a woman called at the Charing Cross Hotel, and asked for Miss Helen Rolleston.
It does not much matter, a few hours; but her not coming makes me uneasy, for her health was declining when she left me. How is my child, Mr. Wardlaw? Pray tell me the truth." Both the Wardlaws looked at one another, and at General Rolleston, and the elder Wardlaw said there was certainly some misunderstanding here. "We fully believed that your daughter was coming home with you in the Shannon."
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