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When he married Norah he believed that his wife had been killed in a great railway crash, for so it was reported in all the newspaper accounts of the accident; and he never saw it contradicted." "His worst fault then appears to have been that of reckless haste in consummating his second marriage," said Mr. Wynne. "Yes; and even for that he had some excuse.
"This is the diamond-making machine, gentlemen," said Mr. Wynne, and he indicated to Mr. Latham, Mr. Schultze and Mr. Czenki the cube and the two guns. "It is perfectly simple in construction, has enormous powers of resistance, as you may guess, and is as delicately fitted as a watch, being regulated by electric power.
"Now I will talk, Hugh, and do not interrupt me. You always do;" but, as Jack Warder says, no one ever did successfully interrupt Miss Wynne except Miss Wynne.
"You don't think, then," he said, breaking the silence that had fallen upon them, "that this er marsh gas could have caused the death of Wynne and Collins? Burnt 'em alive, so to speak?" Cleek did not move at this question. They merely saw his shoulders twitch as though he didn't wish to be bothered at the moment.
Wynne, and I'd 'eard 'im go out and slam the door be'ind 'im. So I was keeping me ears peeled, as you might say." "I see. Doing a bit of eavesdropping, eh?" asked Cleek, and was rewarded by an angry look from under the man's dark brows and a sudden tightening of the lines about his mouth. "And what then?"
Cawthorne looked around, with bewilderment in his eyes. The others nodded their approval of Mr. Czenki's opinion. "The Regent, yes," Mr. Wynne agreed; "one hundred and thirty-six and three-quarter carats, cut as a brilliant, worn by Napoleon in his sword-hilt, now in the Louvre at Paris, the property of the French Government valued at two and a half million dollars."
"Yet you endured it?" she returned, regarding him curiously. "Yes, I endured it. In the first place, I thought that it was my duty; and in the second, it was not so hard until I had seen" "Well, until you had seen?" "Until I had seen you, I was going to say." Berenice flushed, and tossed her head. "You have caught a pretty trick of paying compliments, Mr. Wynne."
Barthorpe, who had followed these proceedings with almost irrepressible eagerness, thrust forward a shaking hand. But Mr. Tertius quietly handed the sealed envelope to Peggie. "This envelope," he remarked, "is addressed to Miss Wynne." Barthorpe made an effort and controlled himself. "Open it!" he said hoarsely. "Open it!"
What happened on that stroll I do not know; but meeting Miss Trix on the stairs later in the afternoon, I ventured to remark: "I hope you broke it to him gently, Miss Queenborough?" "I don't know what you mean," replied Trix haughtily. "You were out nearly two hours," said I. "Were we?" asked Trix, with a start. "Good gracious! Where was mamma, Mr. Wynne?" "On the lawn watch in hand."
But both the judge and Ishmael noticed the wistful look with which the latter was regarded by the minister. "He is comparing likenesses," thought the judge. "He is thinking of the past and present," thought Ishmael. And both were right. Mr. Wynne saw in Ishmael the likeness to both his parents, and noted how happily nature had distinguished him with the best points of each.
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