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"Most of us are ready to do ourselves good turns. What am I to do?" "You will wish to avoid it, and yet you will do yourself a good turn in not avoiding it." "Is that the way you talk in diplomatic circles cryptic, they call it, don't they?" Stafford's chin hardened, and a look of repulsion and disdain crossed over his face.
"Meanin' that if you'd been usin' your eyes you'd have seen that she's some took up with Stafford's new stray-man." "Well," returned Ben, "she's her own boss. If she's made friends with Ferguson that's her business." He laughed. "She's certainly clever," he added, "and mebbe she's got her own notion as to why she's made friends with him.
Stafford's eyes were riveted to the paper, and there was a long pause, a pause on his part of dismay and consternation. He could scarcely to repeat a common phrase believe his eyes. "It seems," he muttered at length, "it seems fairly accurate a tolerably precise account, indeed." "It is a verbatim copy," said the secretary drily. "The question is, who furnished it.
Into those eyes she had looked but once since the rescue, but all that was necessary of gratitude was said in that one glance: "You have saved Rudyard you, Ian," it said. With Al'mah it was different. In the light of the open door of the manager's office, she looked into Ian Stafford's face. "He saved my life, you remember," she said; "and you have saved his. I love you." "I love you!"
I can only tell you that I have a great responsibility toward you all and toward another." Colonel Carmichael was silent for a moment. Stafford's manner awed and troubled him in spite of himself. "Very well," he said at last. "I give you an hour. During that time we will make preparations for the worst." He took out his watch. "It is now eleven. At twelve the matter passes into Nicholson's hands."
What Biddulph Stafford's object was I don't know, but, being well informed of all that occurred, he persuaded Sir Mostyn to offer not only to restore to Mrs Stafford her income, but to increase it, provided she would consent not again to receive her daughter-in-law, and to bring up the child herself.
Stafford's face lit up, and he laughed the laugh of the man who wins; but it died away rather suddenly, as she said gravely: "But I do not think we shall meet often. I do not often go to the other side of the lake: very seldom indeed; and you will not, you say, fish the Heron; so that Oh, there is the colt loose," she broke off. "How can it have got out?
From what Count Landrassy had said, it would appear that Ian Stafford's future hung in the balance dependent upon the success of his great diplomatic scheme. Could she help Ian? Could she help him? Had the time come when she could pay her debt, the price of ransom from the captivity in which he held her true and secret character?
Stafford stood and watched her; the collie and the fox-terrier upright on their haunches watching her also; the collie gave an approving bark as, with a pat she liberated the lamb, which went bleating on its way to join its distracted mother, the fox-terrier leapt round her with yaps of excited admiration; and there was admiration in Stafford's eyes also.
Stafford wouldn't stand, miss." "I suppose not," she said. "Are you going to ride into Bryndermere this morning, Pottinger? If so, I should be glad if you would take these notes to the linen draper's and the chemist's, and bring me back the things I have written for." "Certainly, miss," said Pottinger; then he remembered Stafford's order, and looked anything but certain.
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