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I have had a great deal of annoyance and expense," the schoolmistress added, "with telegrams that had to be paid for." And here most people who live at a distance from telegraph offices, and are afflicted with careless friends whose touch on the wire is easy and light, will perhaps sympathize with Miss Marlett.
At last the door opened, and Miss Marlett appeared, rustling in silks, very stiff, and with an air of extreme astonishment. "Mr. Maitland?" she said, in an interrogative tone. "Didn't you expect me? Didn't you get my telegram?" asked Maitland.
"Covent Garden," he cried to the cabman. We have not for some time seen, or rather we have for some time made believe not to recognize, the Hon. Mr. Nor had this been, to a person of his experience and resources, a feat of very great difficulty. When he had once learned, by the simplest and readiest means, the nature of Maitland's telegram to Miss Marlett, his course had been dear.
And this had led to the end of Latin lessons at the Dovecot, wherefore Margaret was honored as a goddess by girls averse to studying the classic languages. But now Miss Marlett forgot these things, and all the other skirmishes of the past.
"The bandogs bayed and howled," as they did round the secret bower of the Lady of Brauksome; and lights flitted about the windows. When a lantern at last came flickering up to the gate, the bearer of it stopped to challenge an apparently unlooked-for and unwelcome stranger. "Who are you? What do you want?" said a female voice, in a strong Devonian accent. "I want Miss Marlett," answered Maitland.
I noticed there were just twenty words." "And did you also notice the office from which the message was sent out?" "No," said Miss Marlett, shaking her head with an effort at recollection. "I am afraid I did not notice." "That is very unfortunate," said Maitland, walking vaguely up and down the room. "Do you think the telegram is absolutely lost?"
"Oh, Miss Marlett, I am so very unhappy!" the girl sobbed. Somehow she was kneeling now, with her head buried in the elder lady's lap. "I have been horrid to you. I am so wretched!" A little kindness and a sudden trouble had broken down Miss Margaret Shields. For years she had been living, like Dr.
"I never for a moment doubted it, Miss Marlett; but will you kindly let me compare the two telegrams? This is a most extraordinary affair, and we ought to lose no time in investigating it, and discovering its meaning. You and I are responsible, you know, to ourselves, if unfortunately to no one else, for Margaret's safety."
Arriving at the closed and barred gates of that vestal establishment, Maitland's cabman "pulled, and pushed, and kicked, and knocked" for a considerable time, without manifest effect. Clearly the retainers of Miss Marlett had secured the position for the night, and expected no visitors, though Maitland knew that he ought to be expected.
Were they not, Miss Harman?" "Yes," said Janey; "I certainly saw two telegraphic envelopes lying among your letters at breakfast. I mentioned it to to poor Margaret," she added, with a break in her voice. "But why were the telegrams not delivered last night?" Maitland asked. "I have left orders," Miss Marlett answered, "that only telegrams of instant importance are to be sent on at once.
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