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Brander's office, which was but a couple of hundred yards away. "How do you do, Mr. Levison?" Cuthbert asked as he entered. "Is Mr. Brander alone?" "Yes, he is alone, Mr. Hartington. I am glad to see you again, sir." With a nod Cuthbert walked to the door of the inner office, opened it, and went in. Mr. Brander started, half rose from his chair with the exclamation "My dear !" then he stopped.
That morning the matter had been arranged patched up for a time. "My stars, Levison!" began Mr. Meredith, who was a whipper-in of the ministry, "what a row there is about you! Why, you look as well as ever you were." "A great deal better to-day," coughed Sir Francis. "To think that you should have chosen the present moment for skulking!
Levison, they say, was scared at the recognition, and changed color. Bethel would give no explanation, and moved away; but James told Dill that Levison was the man Thorn who used to be after Afy Hallijohn." "How did you know?" breathlessly asked Barbara. "Because Mr. Ebenezer was after Afy himself, and repeatedly saw Thorn in the wood.
Ferdinand could scarcely refrain from a smile. Even the conversation of the little waiter was a relief to him. 'You see, sir, continued that worthy, 'Morris and Levison would never have given you such a deuce of a tick unless they knowed your resources. Trust Morris and Levison for that. You done up, sir! a nob like you, that Morris and Levison have trusted for such a tick!
And all became as still as death. Mr. Roy, assistant counsel for the crown, arose and read the indictment, charging the prisoner at the bar with the willful murder of Sir Lemuel Levison, at Castle Lone, on the twenty-first day of June, Anno Domini, so and so. Without making any comment, the prosecutor sat down. The Clerk of Arraigns then arose, and demanded of the accused
"Do you like that Captain Levison?" she abruptly inquired, when they were beyond hearing. "I cannot say I do," was Mr. Carlyle's reply. "He is one who does not improve upon acquaintance." "To me it looks as though he had placed himself in our way to hear what we were saying." "No, no, Barbara. What interest could it bear for him?"
"My father is so stiff, especially when he's put up, that he would not sully his lips with the name, or make a single inquiry when we arrived; neither would he let me, and I walked up here with my tongue burning." She would have responded, what fellow? But she suspected too well, and the words died away on her unwilling lips. "That brute, Levison.
He had met many statuesque, pink and white beauties in his young life; and he had admired each and all with all a young man's ardor. But not one of them had touched his heart, as did the first full gaze of those large, soft gray eyes that were lifted to his and immediately dropped as the old banker had presented him to "My daughter, Miss Levison." She was not statuesque.
And when I got back to Westminster and looked into the station-house to see my unfortunate mistress, and to help her mind often her own troubles, I told her about the wedding of the Duke of Hereward with the heiress of Sir Lemuel Levison, at St. George's Church, my lady.
"Didn't I see you turning into your father's house yesterday?" "I pretty soon turned out of it again. I'm like the monkey when I venture there get more kicks than halfpence. Hush, old gentleman! We interrupt the eloquence." Of course "the eloquence" applied to Sir Francis Levison, and they set themselves to listen Mr. Dill with a serious face, Mr. Ebenezer with a grinning one.
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