He loaded
the launch with a thousand pounds—all she could carry—and started home
immediately after sundown; but even then he lost from a hundred to a hundred
and fifty pounds before he had the stuff cached in McClintock's bamboo-covered
sawdust pit. ‘You could have fetched me home. But all this business has
driven it clean out of my head. “What is the good of pretending?” she said. She was delivered home by 11:30pm. The foremost, tall, clean-shaven, perfectly groomed, half extended
his hand with a smile of recognition. ‘Do you at least know how he came to be in a position to cheat Miss Charvill,
and to pass off his wife in her place?’
‘In her place?’ There was no mistaking the boy’s ignorance of this part of the
tale. ‘How did you guess?’
‘I guessed as soon as you said this was your house. Before our marriage there will be no life between
you and the estates. “I daresay the gallery will
be full, but there is always the chance, and I know you two are keen on Melba. She was posing
before the mirror, critically, miserably, defensively, and perhaps bewilderedly. Only that I was prevented by one of those soldiers
that caught me in the big house.
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