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"I think," said Macfarlane slowly, "that royalty has its duties, ye see, an' though I canna say I object to Her Majesty's homely way o' behavin', still there are a few matters that wad be the better for her pairsonal attention." "Oh bother!" said Errington gaily. "Look at that victim of the nation, the Prince of Wales!
It was, therefore, with much astonishment that on looking at the paste-board which I had casually picked up in the railway carriage I saw the name on it, "Frank Errington." "There was no doubt that the sensation in court was almost unprecedented. Never since the days of the Fenchurch Street mystery, and the trial of Smethurst, had I seen so much excitement.
"Unwelcome I know I am," replied Lovisa, disdainfully noting the terror of Britta and the astonished glances if Errington and his friends "unwelcome at all times, but most unwelcome at the hour of feasting ad folly, for who can endure to receive a message from the Lord when the mouth is full of savory morsels, and the brain reels with the wicked wine? Yet I have come in spite of your iniquities.
After a while Errington said almost vexedly "Are you struck dumb, George? Haven't you a word to say to a fellow?" "Just what I was about to ask you," replied Lorimer carelessly; "and I was also going to remark that we hadn't seen your mad friend up at the Gueldmar residence." "No. Yet I can't help thinking he has something to do with them, all the same," returned Errington meditatively.
"These coincidences occur perpetually when people move in the same set," returned Errington, feeling absurdly curious, and yet not knowing how to get at the train of recollection or association which underlay her words words evidently unstudied and impulsive. "I suppose so. And, you know Mr. Payne," Katherine continued, quickly "how good he is! He lives completely for others."
"As we say in polite society when some one crushes our favorite corn under his heel don't mention it! You see Sigurd is cracked, there's not the slightest doubt about that, and he's hardly accountable for his vagaries. Then I know something about him that perhaps you don't. He loves your Thelma!" They were making the descent of the rocks together, and Errington stopped short in surprise.
"God help the man!" exclaimed Ulrika startled. "Who is dying?" "She the Froeken Thelma Lady Errington she is all alone up there," and he pointed distractedly in the direction from whence he had come. "I can get no one in Bosekop, the women are cowards all, all afraid to go near her," and he wrung his hands in passionate distress.
"Well, it's to be hoped you're wrong," said Adrienne, smiling, and again Diana thought she detected a glance of mutual understanding pass between the actress and Max Errington. A little uncomfortable sense as of being de trop invaded her. She felt that for some reason Errington would be glad when she had gone.
And he rushed down the long gallery and disappeared in the furthest chamber, where he gave vent to a sort of long, sobbing cry, which rang dolefully through the cavern and then subsided into utter silence. Feeling as if he were in a chaotic dream, Errington pursued his interrupted course through the winding passages with a bewildered and wondering mind.
"Mais certainement!" he said frankly and emphatically. "Phil-eep is a favorite everywhere! Yet not more so with women than with men. I love him extremely he is a charming boy! Then you see, chere Mademoiselle, he is rich, very rich, and there are so many pretty girls who are very poor, naturally they are enchanted with our Errington voyez-vous?"
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