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They fell apart quickly, and Radmore, with a sudden revulsion of feeling a sensation that he had been saved from doing a very foolish thing turned to see his godson, Timmy Tosswill. Enid Crofton looked at Timmy, too, and if evil thoughts could kill, the child would have fallen dead.
I remember Crofton saying to me when we came out " "But he's an Orangeman, Crofton, isn't he?" said Mr. Power. "'Course he is," said Mr. Kernan, "and a damned decent Orangeman too. We went into Butler's in Moore Street faith, was genuinely moved, tell you the God's truth and I remember well his very words. Kernan, he said, we worship at different altars, he said, but our belief is the same.
That, in fact, was why, in July it was now late September when she, Enid Crofton, had had to think of making a new home, Beechfield had seemed to her the ideal place. If only she could hear of a house to let there! And by rare good chance there had been such a house The Trellis House!
And no wonder that, as he adjusted his faculties to the situation, there crept upon him a chill apprehension. For Fillmore had not been blind to the significance of that invitation to Monk's Crofton.
"Piper?" repeated Enid Crofton in a low, hesitating voice. "Then are you Mrs. Piper?" Was it conceivable that this strange-looking old thing was Piper's wife? "I've been Mrs. Piper eighteen years," replied Madame Flora composedly, "but I've always kep' on my business, Modam. It's not much of a business now, worse luck! Ladies won't part with their clothes, not when they're dropping off them.
Crofton tell you what he was like?" "No yes oh, Timmy! I'm afraid you must have been listening at the door just now?" "I didn't like to come in," he said, wriggling uneasily. "I've never heard Jack speak in such an angry way before. He was in a wax, wasn't he? But, Mum, do tell me what Colonel Crofton looked like I do so want to know."
Crofton, Janet," said Godfrey, in a singular tone. "I fancy she really does care for Jack. Of course it seems odd to all of us, but still, after all, odder things have been known! If you ask me whether they will marry in the end that's quite another matter. If you ask me whether they're engaged, well, yes, I'm inclined to think they are!" Even Betty felt violently disturbed and astonished.
Crofton had looked very pretty when she was giving evidence at the inquest; in fact, the descriptive reporter had called her "the dead man's beautiful young widow." And then, all at once, he bethought himself of Miss Pendarth's letter to his mother.
They were of very great service to him in many respects, for Mrs Crofton was a ladylike and refined person, though her means were small, and she was able to give him instruction in the ways and manners of people of education; though Bill was so observant, and anxious to imitate what was right, that he only required the opportunity to fit himself thoroughly for his new station in life.
"I don't think so," said Betty. "I think he met them in Egypt during the war. He mentioned them in one of his letters to Timmy, and then, when he was in England last year, he must have stayed with them, for that's where Flick came from. Colonel Crofton bred terriers. I remember reading Timmy a long letter signed 'Cecil Crofton' telling him all about how to manage Flick, and he mentioned Godfrey."
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