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See to it that you start the day refreshed by some hours of sleep." "Good-by," said Trenholme promptly. "Sorry you two will miss Eliza's dinner. But that is only a feast deferred. By the way, if I leave Roxton I'll send you my address." "Don't worry about that," smiled the Superintendent. "Our friend the Inspector here will keep tab on you.
There's no place where she could have buried him, and to take him to the lake was beyond her strength." There was nothing of the everyday irascibility about his voice; the patience of a great grief was upon him, as he argued away the gross suspicion. "That settles it." Trenholme said this willingly enough.
That was when he was irresistibly drawn to the inn by the fascinations of Miss Beatrix Trenholme, youngest and most beautiful of the celebrated Trenholme sisters, whose brilliant marriage to " Aye, to whom? The hermit walked back to the hermitage.
Her cape adjusted, Mrs. Bennett found something else to say. "Of course, personally, it makes no difference to me, for I have always felt there was something about Principal Trenholme that is, that he was not It is a little hard to express; one feels, rather than speaks, these things." It was a lie, but what was remarkable about it was that its author did not know it for one.
Saul, unable to keep up with the cattle, flung himself upon the cart, and, with great rattling, was borne swiftly away from his pursuer. Young Trenholme stopped when he had run a mile.
"A heavy-caliber rifle must sound unusual at any time of the year in an enclosed estate near London," commented Trenholme. "My idee exactly," said the policeman. "I think I'll go that way. I may meet Bates."
"Roxton seems to be a rather quaint place to find you in, Mr. Trenholme," she said. "How did you happen on our tiny village? Though so far from London, we are quite a byway. Why did you pay us a visit?" So Trenholme dropped to earth again, and they spoke of matters of slight import till the boundary wall was reached.
The next day he tramped as far as the railway to post the letter. When Principal Trenholme received this letter he was standing in his library, holding an interview with some of his elder pupils.
Brown, although not a designing woman, had entertained comfortable motherly hopes that Trenholme might ultimately espouse one of her daughters, and it had certainly advanced him somewhat in her favour that his early acquaintance with Miss Rexford was an undisputed fact; but in the light of what Mrs. Rexford had just said of her daughter's good-heartedness all assumed a different aspect. Mrs.
He himself felt rather thinner, weaker, more rusty in knowledge of the world, more shapeless as to apparel, than he would have done had he sat alone. After a minute or two he said, "What's your trade?" Trenholme, sitting there in the clear light, would have blushed as he answered had his face not been too much weathered to admit of change of colour.
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