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The two following days passed uneventfully. Each evening, about ten, Ambler Jevons came in to smoke and drink. He stayed an hour, apparently nervous, tired, and fidgety in a manner quite unusual; but to my inquiries regarding the success of his investigations he remained dumb. "Have you discovered anything?" I asked, eagerly, on the occasion of his second visit. He hesitated, at length answering
Ambler proved expensive in the kitchen, breaking for the while through her economical rule, feeling nothing too good for her poor child. She used to remind Osborn every time they met, by word, or look, or expressive sigh, how Marie had suffered. He felt oppressed, overridden and tired; but he was very obedient beneath the rule of the women.
They would only be counted remarkable as the work of a school-boy in his early teens, and were practice work nothing more. They served their purpose, then sank into the oblivion which was their meet destiny. But to Jack Preston, Dick Ambler, Rob Stanard and Rob Sully, and one or two others, they were master-pieces.
Ambler that the glimpse of her fireside would send him rejoicing upon his way. Such burning topics went like strong wine to his head, and like strong wine left a craving which always carried him back to them in the end. He would quarrel with the Governor, and make his peace, and at the next meeting quarrel, without peace-making, again.
"You, at least, must go to bed, dear," insisted Mrs. Ambler. "Betty and I will fix the things." "Indeed, you shall go to bed, mamma," said Betty, sternly. "Papa and I shall make Christmas this year. You'll help me, won't you, papa?" "Well, my dear, I don't see how I can help myself," returned the Governor; "I wasn't born to be the father of a Betty for nothing."
"By the way, Julia," he went on with a change of the subject, "Major Lightfoot found Betty in the road and brought her home. The little rogue had run away." Mrs. Ambler filled Miss Pussy's cup and pressed Mr. Bill to take a slice of Sally Lunn. "The Major is so broken that it saddens me," she said, when these offices of hostess were accomplished.
Lightfoot, shrinking from the approaching spoon; and Betty tasted and pronounced it excellent, "and there never was an Ambler who wasn't a judge of 'sass," she added. Moved by the compliment, Aunt Rhody fell back and regarded the girl, with her arms akimbo. "I d'clar, her eyes do des shoot fire," she exclaimed admiringly.
On my word, I might have been Captain of the Leicesterburg Guards after Champe Lightfoot joined the cavalry; but such averted looks were turned from me by the ladies, that I had to jump into the ranks merely to reinstate myself in their regard. They made even Governor Ambler volunteer as a private, I believe, but he was lucky and got made a Colonel instead." Bland laughed softly.
The murderer, finding that it creaked, had probably closed it by degrees; hence it gave a series of creaks, which to the girl had sounded in the silence of the night like those of new boots. Ambler Jevons had, almost at the opening of his inquiry, cleared up one point which had puzzled us.
To the eyes was given a glazed look, and between them set a little line, as though their owner were thinking: 'Hard work, hard work! Noblesse oblige. I must keep it going! Underneath was written: "The Ambler." George stood long looking at the apotheosis of his fame. His star was high in the heavens.
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