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I daresay you've heard of him John Lavington?" John Lavington! There was a certain irony in asking if one had heard of John Lavington! Even from a post of observation as obscure as that of Mrs. Culme's secretary the rumour of John Lavington's money, of his pictures, his politics, his charities and his hospitality, was as difficult to escape as the roar of a cataract in a mountain solitude.
'A matter of seven shilling; ain't they now, Paul Tregarva? 'I should suppose they are. 'Then do you give me the lines, one and all, and there's a sovereign for you. No, I can't trust you with it all at once. I'll give it to Tregarva, and he shall allow you four shillings a week as long as it lasts, if you'll promise to keep off Squire Lavington's river.
Lavington's age and figure, who stood just behind his chair, and who, at the moment when Faxon first saw him, was gazing at young Rainer with an equal intensity of attention. The likeness between the two men perhaps increased by the fact that the hooded lamps on the table left the figure behind the chair in shadow struck Faxon the more because of the contrast in their expression.
Jardine to be, the type of Constance Armytage and the type of Evelyn Lavington, Colonel and Mrs. Lavington's unmarried daughter, who, but for Karen, might well have become Mrs. Jardine one day.
Lavington's intense personality intensely negative, but intense all the same must, in some occult way, have penetrated every corner of his dwelling.
Lavington's glance was politely bent on him, but with a loosening of the strain about his heart he saw that the figure behind the chair still kept its gaze on Rainer. "Do you think you've seen my double, Mr. Faxon?" Would the other face turn if he said yes? Faxon felt a dryness in his throat. "No," he answered. "Ah? It's possible I've a dozen. I believe I'm extremely usual- looking," Mr.
He glanced at the first page and read in blazing characters: "Reported Failure of Opal Cement Company. Lavington's name involved. Gigantic Exposure of Corruption Shakes Wall Street to Its Foundations." He read on, and when he had finished the first paper he turned to the next. There was a gap of three days, but the Opal Cement "Investigation" still held the centre of the stage.
"Don't go away," said Mrs. Saunders feebly, as Lucy was rising to obey. "Don't send her away, mister I can't do without her Miss Lavington's not at home one need not ask her for me. Who should be sent for?" The young man named a gentleman high in his profession. Was it that able and benevolent man whom the world has so lately lost?
'I think, quoth Lancelot, ambiguously, 'that a man who can write such ballads is not fit to be your gamekeeper, and I think he feels so himself; and Lancelot stole an encouraging look at Tregarva. 'And I say, sir, the keeper answered, with an effort, 'that I leave Mr. Lavington's service here on the spot, once and for all. 'And that you may do, my fine fellow! roared the squire.
Lavington's back; and while the latter continued to gaze affectionately at his nephew, his counterpart, as before, fixed young Rainer with eyes of deadly menace.
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