Mr. Hale groaned. 'I can't bear to part with you, and yet I am

miserable with anxiety as long as you stop here.' 'Well then,' said Margaret, 'listen to my plan. He gets to London

on Friday morning. I will--you might--no! it would be better for

me to give him a note to Mr. Lennox. You will find him at his

chambers in the Temple.' 'I will write down a list of all the names I can remember on

board the Orion. I could leave it with him to ferret them out. He

is Edith's husband's brother, isn't he? I remember your naming

him in your letters. I have money in Barbour's hands. I can pay a

pretty long bill, if there is any chance of success Money, dear

father, that I had meant for a different purpose; so I shall only

consider it as borrowed from you and Margaret.' 'Don't do that,' said Margaret. 'You won't risk it if you do. And

it will be a risk only it is worth trying. You can sail from

London as well as from Liverpool?' 'To be sure, little goose. Wherever I feel water heaving under a

plank, there I feel at home. I'll pick up some craft or other to

take me off, never fear. I won't stay twenty-four hours in

London, away from you on the one hand, and from somebody else on

the other.' It was rather a comfort to Margaret that Frederick took it into

his head to look over her shoulder as she wrote to Mr. Lennox. If

she had not been thus compelled to write steadily and concisely

on, she might have hesitated over many a word, and been puzzled

to choose between many an expression, in the awkwardness of being

the first to resume the intercourse of which the concluding event

had been so unpleasant to both sides. However, the note was taken

from her before she had even had time to look it over, and

treasured up in a pocket-book, out of which fell a long lock of

black hair, the sight of which caused Frederick's eyes to glow

with pleasure.

'Now you would like to see that, wouldn't you?' said he. 'No! you

must wait till you see her herself She is too perfect to be known

by fragments. No mean brick shall be a specimen of the building

of my palace.'




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