d himself between Sybil

o talk to h

out your candidate, Mr

pleased I am to have

ame of being shut up i

these good people, ev

rvati

as he unfolded

said, "but he is particularly sound and a man with any a

re is going to support Mr. Rochester. If I wasn't sure that he'd do more harm than good, I wouldn't let hi

ed an impertu

support only, but my fame as an orator is too well known.

ooked a

conceit?" she remarked

r opened his mouth in th

he's as nervous as a

return Mr

The Jingo element are our greatest trouble. They are all the time trying to make people believe that Conservatives have

pon domestic questions. Medchester is a manufacturing town, and I am given to understand

owards the speak

ing the Medchester

rister

some rather surpr

s speech at the mass me

nt I mustn't discuss t

litical opponent," he

nduce Mr. Rochester to

d, "I don't think you need fear that. Rochester would be ready en

oted herself to him, and he found himself somehow drawn with marvellous facility into the little circle of intimate

e to look round the place," he said. "

voice a little. "There are one or two more thin

t your service," Lor

rooks continued, "wi

one of sympathy, but it may at any rate save me from having my carriage windows broken one dark night. By the bye, I

of you indeed,"

n, so you may just as

ked. "By the by

," Brooks

is afternoon, and I will try and arrange something. The elec

p to your standard," Brooks said, "although it is ve

ore la

" he said, "but Molyneu

y place. We have some

ards them, followed by tw

d Mr. Lacroix, your l

panion. It chanced that Brooks, who had stepped a little on one side, was watching his host, and for the second time in one day he saw things which amazed him. His expression se

own, I believe. I'll sack him to-morrow. Here's my friend Lacroix, who says you saved him from starvation once before out in the wild

nswered. "Delighted to meet you again, Mr. Lacroix.

g up to them, and shook

ting," she murmured. "D

exploring days?" she

cr

smiling. "And when I tell you that I had lost all my stores, and that his was the only dwelling-place fo

ot repress a start. He fancied that Lo

room sh

fifty miles," she repeated.

every inch of the country, told me so many times. I can assure you that Lord Arranm

ided up from

he small dining-room, Si

*

er to Medchester, and the former wa

ing up," he remarked. "I fancy

rise him," Brooks answ

er is a

eux n

ffirmed. "Queer stick

ce he dropped in for th

m open his mouth on the

England for very l

etween his disappearance and his coming to claim the estates. That means that for pretty well half a lifetime he passed completely out of the world. Poor beggar! I fancy that he was hard up, for one thing." To Brooks the subject w

now?" he asked Brooks. "I don't suppose

will easily be able to come across him, for he has a series of

at Medchester, then. Better let him put you down, and then he can

s answered, dubiously, "but I scarcely know wheth

eux l

mind that. Besides, Arranmore isn't keen about his bag, li

as Secretary to the Unemployed Fund during the election, and with a brief mention of a large subscription, instructed him to open several relief stations w

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few minutes' interview on a purely personal matter. I wi

faith

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