Part 4 (1/2)

”PS--I have ordered breakfast at 10 Don't go down much before, for your own sake”

Sory with ether without cause, I rose, dressed and set to work to write so so I heard the wheels of a carriage beneath and opening mythe Atterby-S in the Castle bus Sed, but the others looked depressed Indeed I heard the wife of his bosom say to him,

”Calm yourself, my dear Rears on horseback are always unjust and ungrateful”

To which her spouse replied,

”Hold your infernal tongue, will you,” and then began to rate the servants about the luggage

Well, off they went Glaring through the door of the bus, Mr S which I waved my hand to him in adieu His only reply to this courtesy was to shake his fist, though whether at eneral, I neither know nor care

When I was quite sure that they had gone and were not cootten, I went downstairs and surprised a conclave between the butler, Moxley, and his satellites, reinforced by Lady Ragnall's maid and two other fe, which I thought a fine word for tips, ”not a sratuities were--'da his name for butler _My_ eyes, mind you, Ann, not Alfred's or Willias Gentles don't have litters, Mr Moxley,” observed Ann ss, there'd be no litters, so there! However, he won't root about in this castle no more, for I happened to catch a word or two of what passed between hiht out that she waslove to that little Mr Quatermain anted her athered in Africa A gentleh peculiar, I like, and who, the keeper Charles tells me, is the best shot in the whole world”

”And what did she say to that?” asked Ann

”What did she say? What didn't she say, that's the question It was just as though all the furniture in the roo heard enough, and more than I wanted, I stepped off with the tray and next rab the bedroom candlesticks That's all and there's her Ladyshi+p's bell Alfred, don't stand gaping there but go and light the hot-plates”

So they nant but laughing No wonder that Lady Ragnall lost her te-roohted ribbon that disse?” I asked

”Fu the house,” she said ”It is unnecessary as I don't think they were infectious, but the cerenificance--like incense Anyway it relieves hed and threw the re,

”If you say a word about those people I'll leave the room”

I think we had one of the jolliest breakfasts I ever rery since ourany dinner Indeed she swore that she had scarcely tasted food since Saturday Then we had such a lot to talk about With short intervals we talked all that day, either in the house or while walking through the gardens and grounds Passing through the latter I came to the spot on the back drive where once I had saved her fronized it, uttered an exclamation She asked me why and the end of it was that I told her all that story which to this ht well to keep it from her

She listened intently, then said,

”So I owe you more than I knew Yet, I'm not sure, for you see I was abducted after all Also if I had been taken there, probably George would never have ht have been better for him”

”Why?” I asked ”You were all the world to him”

”Is any woman ever all the world to asome attack

”Don't answer,” she went on, ”it would be too long and you wouldn't convince me who have been in the East However, he was all the world to me Therefore his welfare hat I wished and wish, and I think he would have had more of it if he had never ain