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"My dear Lily, I haven't had time for a word with you, and now I suppose you are just off. Have you seen Evie? She's been looking everywhere for you: she wanted to tell you her little secret; but I daresay you have guessed it already. The engagement is not to be announced till next week but you are such a friend of Mr. Gryce's that they both wished you to be the first to know of their happiness."
Gryce's subjugation, and render inevitable a certain incident which she had resolved should form a part of the walk they were to take together after luncheon. Her intentions in short had never been more definite; but poor Lily, for all the hard glaze of her exterior, was inwardly as malleable as wax.
"What! have you forgotten, in the hurry of these late events, the sentence of accusation which we overheard uttered between these ladies on the morning of the inquest?" "No, but " "You believed it to have been spoken by Mary to Eleanore?" "Of course; didn't you?" Oh, the smile which crossed Mr. Gryce's face! "Scarcely. I left that baby-play for you.
But when some time later, the guests having departed, the dignified host advanced with some apology to where we were, I never beheld a firmer look on Mr. Gryce's face than that with which he rose and confronted him. Mr. Blake's own had not more character in it. "You have called at a rather inauspicious time, Mr. Gryce," said the latter, glancing at the card which he held in his hand.
As far as Lily could learn, this had hitherto been Mr. Gryce's only occupation, and she might have been pardoned for thinking it not too hard a task to interest a young man who had been kept on such low diet. At any rate, she felt herself so completely in command of the situation that she yielded to a sense of security in which all fear of Mr.
"In the first place, there was no paper of importance enough" I saw Mr. Gryce's form suddenly stiffen "for any one to attempt its abstraction and concealment." "Can you be sure of that? May not your cousin be acquainted with something " "There was nothing to be acquainted with, Mr. Raymond. We lived the most methodical and domestic of lives.
Gryce's explanation of his motives in perjuring himself before the Coroner was correct, and while the mass of people wondered at that instinct of pride which led him to risk the imputation of murder sooner than have the world accuse his wife of an unwomanly action, there were others who understood his peculiarities, and thought his conduct quite in keeping with what they knew of his warped and over-sensitive nature.
Dated, then, March 1st, 1876, and signed " Mr. Gryce rolled his eyes in anticipatory ecstasy towards the ceiling. "By Henry Clavering," I announced without hesitation. Mr. Gryce's eyes returned to his swathed finger-ends. "Humph! how do you know that?" "Wait a moment, and I'll show you"; and, taking out of my pocket the card which Mr.
But his body soon swayed aside in the other direction, and by the time the old detective had himself reached the landing, Travis, closely accompanied by the Coroner, had passed through the first of the three arches leading to that especial section of the gallery where the concealing tapestry hung. "The man is honest," was Mr. Gryce's first thought.
Gryce's egoism was a thirsty soil, requiring constant nurture from without. Miss Bart had the gift of following an undercurrent of thought while she appeared to be sailing on the surface of conversation; and in this case her mental excursion took the form of a rapid survey of Mr. Percy Gryce's future as combined with her own.
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