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"Permit me cover yourself!" he said a moment later, holding out the hat with an ingratiating gesture. A light flashed on Wyant. "Perhaps," he said, looking straight at the young man, "you will tell me your name. My own is Wyant." The stranger, surprised, but not disconcerted, drew forth a coroneted card, which he offered with a low bow. On the card was engraved: Il Conte Ottaviano Celsi.
Wyant seemed to hear nothing. He stood so still that she felt she must move forward. As she did so, she picked up from the table by the bed the memoranda that it was her duty to submit to him. "Well?" he said, in the familiar sick-room whisper. "She is dead." He fell back a step, glaring at her, white and incredulous. "Dead? When ?" "A few minutes ago...." "Dead ? It's not possible!"
The state of Bessy's nerves necessitated frequent visits from her physician, but Justine, on these occasions, could usually shelter herself behind the professional reserve which kept even Wyant from any open expression of feeling. One day, however, they chanced to find themselves alone before Bessy's return from her ride.
"That will do that will do." He turned impressively to Wyant. "Do you see the pomegranate bud in this rug? Place yourself there keep your left foot on it, please. And now, Sybilla, draw the cord." Miss Lombard advanced and placed her hand on a cord hidden behind the velvet curtain.
Wyant had counselled her against the fatigue of following the hounds, and she instinctively turned their horses away from the course the hunt was likely to take; but now and then the cry of the pack, or the flash of red on a distant slope, sent the blood to her face and made her press her mare to a gallop.
Concealment was no longer possible. Justine handed the message to the surgeon. "Ah and there would be no chance of finding his address among Mrs. Amherst's papers?" "I think not no." "Well we must keep her alive, Wyant." "Yes, sir." At dusk, Justine sat in the library, waiting for Cicely to be brought to her. A lull had descended on the house a new order developed out of the morning's chaos.
Garford. The other nurses were not in the way it was Wyant who always contrived to be there. Perhaps she was unreasonable in seeing a special intention in his presence: it was natural enough that the two persons in charge of the case should confer together with their chief.
"That is hardly worth while, since it was addressed to you," she answered with a slight smile as she turned to descend the post-office steps. Wyant, still carrying his hat, and walking with quick uneven steps, followed her in silence till they had passed beyond earshot of the loiterers on the threshold; then, in the shade of the maple boughs, he pulled up and faced her.
She murmured over the last sentence once or twice: The opinions of the many bugbears to frighten children.... Yes, she had often heard him speak of current judgments in that way...she had never known a mind so free from the spell of the Lamiæ. Some one knocked, and she put aside the book and rose to her feet. It was a maid bringing a note from Wyant.
And I can explain her reason for doing so she wants me out of the way." Amherst turned on the speaker; and, as she had foreseen, his look was terrible. "You haven't explained that yet," he said. "Well I can." Wyant waited another moment. "I know too much about her," he declared. There was a low exclamation from Justine, and Amherst strode toward Wyant. "You infernal blackguard!" he cried.
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