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His chums, Rob Stanard, Dick Ambler and Jack Preston, were standing together a few feet apart from the rest. Their faces were very red and the haranguing seemed to be addressed directly to them. Edgar stopped where he was, wondering what it was all about, but shy of joining a crowd over which Nat was presiding. The speaker's voice rose to a higher key.
The roaring of the waters behind would, I feared, prevent any of their words from reaching me; nevertheless, I waited anxiously. A great barn owl flapped lazily past, hooting weirdly as it went; then all nature became still again, save the dull sound of the tumbling flood. Ambler Jevons, had he been with me, would, no doubt, have acted differently.
In each of those fifteen seconds he died and was born again; with each stride all that was loyal and brave in his nature leaped into flame, all that was base sank, for he himself was racing with his horse, and the sweat poured down his brow. And his lips babbled broken sounds that no one heard, for all around were babbling too. Locked together, the Ambler and straw ran home.
Almost coincidentally with the completion of the Stable Commission it was found that the public were determined to support the Ambler at any price over seven to one. Barney's at once proceeded judiciously to lay off the Stable Money, and this having been done, George found that he stood to win four thousand pounds to nothing.
"You have broken your grandmother's heart and mine," repeated the Major, in a trembling voice, "and I pray to God that you may not break Virginia Ambler's poor girl, poor girl!" "Virginia Ambler!" said Dan, slowly. "Why, there was nothing between us, nothing, nothing." "And you dare to tell me this to my face, sir?" cried the Major. "Dare! of course I dare," returned Dan, defiantly.
"An auger is a very useful implement, eh, Governor; and it's Plaintain Dudley, after all, that we're concerned with. Do you remember Plaintain, Mrs. Ambler, a big ruddy fellow, with ruffled shirts? Oh, he prided himself on his shirts, did Plaintain!" "A very becoming weakness," said Mrs. Ambler, smiling at the Governor, who was blushing above his tucks. "Becoming?
Willis's servants, my love." "Why, Mr. Ambler!" remonstrated his wife, reproach softening her voice until it fell like a caress. "Why, Mr. Ambler, you bought six of Colonel Blake's last year, you know and one of the house servants has been nursing them ever since. The quarters are filled with infirm darkies." "But I couldn't help it, Julia, I really couldn't," pleaded the Governor.
But Dan was living fast at college, and the Major's hints were thrown away. He read of "the Ambler girls who are growing into real beauties," and he skipped the part that said, "Your grandmother has taken a great fancy to Betty and enjoys having her about." "Here's something for you, Champe," he remarked with a laugh, as he tossed the letter upon the table.
"You lie!" the old man cried, his drawn face blanched to the lips. "She fell in accidentally." "She did not. You threw her in," declared Ambler Jevons, firmly. "I followed you there. I was witness of the scene between you; and, although too far off to save poor Mrs. Courtenay, I was witness of your crime!"
My brain was awhirl with thoughts of all the curious events of the past few months the inexplicable presence of old Mr. Courtenay, and the subsequent death of Mary and of the only man who, according to Ambler, knew the remarkable secret. Ethelwynn's strange words worried me. What could she mean? What did she know? Surely hers could not be a guilty conscience.
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