“Yes I did. “I have come to tell you this. " "Your secret?" demanded Trenchard, impatiently. By degrees, his fears vanished, and hearing nothing, he grew calmer. . “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. ‘If you are not going to visit Charvill today, I’ll escort you back to the convent in Golden Square. Snatching-up his pistols, he rushed to the door, but to his horror found it fastened. There was a huge desk of heavily carved ebony at one end, and at the centre, a couple of straight-backed chairs stood before a great fireplace at the outer wall, flanked by two bookshelves with casement windows above. Now then. “He was a friend of your sister’s, was he not?” “I never heard her mention his name,” she answered. He stamped his last letter as Annabel entered. “I’ll have to pay it. With your permission, I will go on in my own way. It is only a matter of time before he presents himself to whoever has the deeds to Remenham House—a lawyer I presume—and claims that property for his wife’s.
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