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There was fortunately some cash in the safe, which I took; all drafts and papers of that nature I left, they were of value only to Hugh Mainwaring, and he was dead! As the cash would be inadequate, however, for my needs, I decided after considerable deliberation to take the family jewels, though not without apprehension that they might lead to my detection, as they finally did.
What a shame in Mainwaring not to have come for it as he promised!" Sir Miles looked round and breathed more freely. "Yours, Master Varney!" said the young lady, astonished. "What can make your letters to Mr. Mainwaring such a secret?" "Oh! you'll laugh at me; but but I wrote a poem on Guy's Oak, and Mr.
"You seem to ignore the fact," she said, "that our cousin is likely to live in the exclusive enjoyment of his home for many years to come." "You mercenary wretch!" retorted Miss Carleton; "are you already counting the years before Mr. Mainwaring's death?" "Isabel, I am shocked!" exclaimed Mrs. Mainwaring. "I don't know why," replied that young lady, coolly.
Depositing the precious document safely within an inside pocket, he swung the doors of the safe together, turning the handle so as to lock it securely, and, crossing the library, unlocked and opened the door. The butler was standing there, and, handing Scott a card, said, briefly, "A gentleman on private business; must see Mr. Mainwaring or his secretary at once."
Half reclining upon a couch on the opposite side of the room, in an attitude more comfortable than graceful, leisurely smoking a fine Havana, was Ralph Mainwaring, of London, a cousin of the New York broker, who, at the invitation of the latter, was paying his first visit to the great western metropolis. Between the two cousins there were few points of resemblance.
Mainwaring had made several descents upon this nest of freebooters. He had already made two notable captures, and it was here he hoped eventually to capture Captain Scarfield himself. A brief description of this one-time notorious rendezvous of freebooters might not be out of place.
Mainwaring, who had in his letter declared himself the copyist, the original codicil remaining in his hands, together with the will it had annulled, and finding them the same unmistakably. "Short, but sweet," he remarked curtly, yet smiling again, and extending his hand for it.
"Certainly," said the little dame, with decision. "She is in the scene. She is not Miss Burgoyne; she is Grace Mainwaring; and she ought to appear interested in everything around her." "Oh, well, perhaps I have been to blame," he said, rather uneasily. "I dare say I encouraged her. But really I had no idea the audience could have noticed it."
"Thank heaven, there'll be no tears shed on this occasion!" said Isabel Mainwaring; "unless," she added, with a glance of scorn towards Miss Carleton's escort, "Mr. Whitney should contribute a few. I detest such vulgar demonstrations in public!"
"Of all the tiresome, hard-to-be-understood young people I ever came across, Primrose Mainwaring beats them," thought Mrs. Ellsworthy to herself; but aloud she said very sweetly "Yes, dear and you shall drive home in the carriage I could not hear of your walking." Miss Ellsworthy thought Primrose both tiresome and obtuse, but here she was mistaken. Miss Martineau's solemn looks, Mr.
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