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A letter addressed to him, and enclosed in the packet containing Helmsley's Last Will and Testament, had explained the whole situation, and had fully described, with simple fidelity, the life his old friend had led at Weircombe, and the affectionate care with which Mary had tended him, while the conclusion of the letter was worded in terms of touching farewell.
She was not conscious of the weather she knew nothing of the hour. She saw the moon the white, cold moon, staring at her now and then between pinnacles of cloud and whenever it gleamed whitely upon her path, she thought of David Helmsley's dead face its still smile its peacefully closed eyelids. And with that face ever before her, she went to his grave.
Just outside, a tangle of climbing roses hung like a delicate pink curtain between Helmsley's eyes and the sunshine, while the busy humming of bees in and out the fragrant hearts of the flowers, made a musical monotony of soothing sound. He sat down and surveyed the simple scene with a quiet sense of pleasure.
Something thrilling in his voice touched a responsive chord in Helmsley's own heart. "Why that is where we all tend!" he said, with a quick sigh "That is where I am tending! where you, in your time, must also tend nothingness or death!" "No!" said Reay, almost loudly "That's not true! That's just what I deny! For me there is no 'Nothingness' no 'death'! Space is full of creative organisms.
Angus Reay, working steadily and hopefully on his gradually diminishing little stock of money, with all his energies bent on cutting a diamond of success out of the savagely hard rock of human circumstance, was more filial in his respect and thought for Helmsley than either of Helmsley's own sons had been; while his character was as far above the characters of those two ne'er-do-weel sprouts of their mother's treachery as light is above darkness.
Tears rose in Helmsley's eyes, and for a moment he covered them with his hand. Angus saw that he was deeply moved, and to avoid noticing him, especially as he was somewhat affected himself by the touching gratefulness of this apparently poor and lonely old man, went after Mary with all the pleasant ease and familiarity of an accepted lover, to help her bring in the tea.
Then I return to my place. The same order applies to all the servants, sir." "I see! Well!" And then there came a pause. "I suppose," said Sir Francis, after some minutes' reflection, "I suppose you know that during Mr. Helmsley's absence you are to apply to me for wages and household expenses that, in fact, your master has placed me in charge of all his affairs?"
He seemed to be perfectly aware that his master was talking to him, but what it was about he evidently did not know, and still more evidently did not care. He liked to be petted and made much of and presently curled himself up in a soft silken ball on Helmsley's knee, with his little black nose pointed towards the fire, and his eyes blinking lazily at the sparkle of the flames.
"And so you will, I'm sure!" she declared, smiling at him, but with something of an anxious expression in her eyes, for Helmsley's face was very pinched and pallid, and every now and then he shivered violently as with an ague fit "But you must pick up your strength first. Then you'll get on better and quicker. Now I'm going to leave you while you change.
Moving along in a blind haze of bewilderment, Helmsley's thoughts were all disordered and his mind in a whirl, what consciousness he had left to him was centred in an effort to get away away! far away from the scene of murder and death, away from the scent and trail of blood which seemed to infect and poison the very air! It was a calm and lovely night.
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