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"But I haven't got the two telegrams!" exclaimed poor Miss Marlett, who could not live up to the stately tone of Maitland. "I haven't got them, or rather, I only have one of them, and I have hunted everywhere, high and low, for the other." Then she offered Maitland a single dispatch, and the flimsy pink paper fluttered in her shaking hand. Maitland took it up and read aloud: "Sent out at 7.45.
"But that would have been of no use, as it happens," Janey put in an unexpected and welcome ally to Miss Marlett "because you must have left Paddington long before the question could have reached you." This was unanswerable, as a matter of fact; and Miss Marlett could not repress a grateful glance in the direction of her wayward pupil.
Received 7.51. "From Robert Maitland to Miss Marlett. "The Dovecot, Conisbeare, "Tiverton. "I come to-morrow, leaving by 10.30 train. Do not let Margaret see the newspaper. Her father dead. Break news." "Why, that is my own telegram!" cried Maitland; "but what have you done with the other you said you received?"
The names of Shields and Miss Marlett had told him all that he needed to know. But he would rather have heard the whole story from his lady's lips; and Mrs. St. John Deloraine was mentally accusing Janey Harman of having interrupted a "proposal," and spoiled a darling scheme. It was therefore with a certain most unfamiliar sharpness that Mrs.
Lithgow is now in possession of the telegram, which he probably, or rather certainly, sent himself. But how he came to know anything about the girl, or what possible motive he can have had " muttered Maitland to himself. "She has never been in any place, Miss Marlett, since she came to you, where she could have made the man's acquaintance?"
Among the early workers, besides those already mentioned, were: Mrs. Charlotte LeMoyne Wills, Mrs. Mila Tupper Maynard, Mrs. Lulu Pyle Little, Mrs. Sarah Wilde Houser, Mrs. Josephine Marlett, Mrs. Alice E. Brodwell, Mrs. Mary A. Kenney, Mrs. Mary Alderman Garbutt, Mrs. Martha Salyer, Miss Margaret M. Fette, Mrs. Cora D. Lewis.
"This is Miss Harman, whom I think you have seen on other occasions," said Miss Marlett, trying to be calm. Maitland bowed again, and wondered more than ever. It did occur to him, that the fewer people knew of so delicate a business the better for Margaret's sake. "I have brought Miss Harman here, Mr.
He was a gentleman," said Janey, who flattered herself that she recognized such persons as bear without reproach that grand old name when she saw them. "Would you know him again if you met him?" "Anywhere," said Janey; "and I would know his voice." "He wore mourning," said Miss Marlett, "and he told me he had known Margaret's father.
On the strength of the later of the two you let your pupil go away with a person of whom you know nothing, and then you have not even the telegram to show me. How long an interval was there between the receipt of the two despatches?" "I got them both at once," said poor, trembling Miss Marlett, who felt the weakness of her case. "They were both sent up with the letters this morning.
Miss Marlett did not ask Janey to say nothing about Margaret's inexplicable adventure. She believed that the girl would have sufficient sense and good feeling to hold her peace; and if she did not do so of her own accord, no vows would be likely to bind her. In this favorable estimate of her pupil's discretion Miss Marlett was not mistaken.
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