24/34 There will be no getting over that, and he will be hung as a matter of course. It will be a terrible thing for his unhappy father." "I do not think that he is likely to come to know it, sir; the shock of the affair yesterday and that of this morning have completely prostrated him, and Dr.Holloway, who was up with him before you arrived, thinks that there is very little chance of his recovery." When the magistrate had left, Mark sent a request to Mrs.Cunningham that she would come down for a few minutes. She joined him in the drawing room. "I wanted to ask how you were, and how Millicent is." "She is terribly upset. You see, the Squire was the only father she had ever known; and had he been really so he could not have been kinder. |