Come, my dear, we will go and order your dogcart," and putting her arm affectionately through his, she went with him from the room.
"I wonder who put her up to all this ?" gasped Haswell, as the door closed behind them.

"Some infernal lawyer, I'll be bound.

Well, she has got the whip hand of me, and I can't face an investigation in Chancery, especially as the only thing against Vernon is that the value of his land has fallen.

But I swear that she shall never marry him while I live," he ended in a kind of shout and the domed and painted ceiling echoed back his words--"_while I live_" after which the room was silent, save for the heavy thumping of his heart.
When Alan reached home that night after his ten-mile drive he sent Jeekie to tell the housekeeper to find him some food.

In his mysterious African fashion the negro had already collected much intelligence as to the events of the day, mostly in the servants' hall, and more particularly from the two golf-caddies, sons of one of the gardeners, who it seemed instead of retiring with the clubs, had taken shelter in some tall whins and thence followed the interview between Barbara and Sir Robert with the intensest interest.