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 NUMBEE SEVENTEEN 
 
 A NOVEL 
 
 BY 
 
 HENEY KINGSLEY 
 
 AUTHOU OF 'THE niLLYARS AND THE BURTONS' ETC. 
 
 IN TWO VOLUMES 
 
 VOL. I. 
 
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 1875 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE FIRST VOLUME. 
 
 CHAPTER PAGE 
 
 I. The House of Rhyader and Festiniog 1 
 
 II. The Return to the World . . . . 27 
 
 III. Mrs. Arnaud 32 
 
 IV. Mrs. Arnaud's Defiance . . . . 43 
 V. More of the first Night ... 54 
 
 VI. Heloise 60 
 
 VII. Opening Day 70 
 
 VIII. James and George Drummond . . . 91 
 
 IX. Festiniog and Rhyader . . . .99 
 
 X. Lord Festiniog and Mrs. Arnaud . . 106 
 
 XL Madame 115 
 
 QQ
 
 vi CONTENTS. 
 
 CHATTEK PAGE 
 
 XII. Raeri ...:.... 128 
 
 XIII. A Family Consultation . . . .137 
 
 XIV. Drummond the Elder . . . . 149 
 XV. Movements at Number Seventeen . . 163 
 
 XVI. The Mystery of D'Arcy and Heloise . 184 
 
 XVII. George Drttmmond takes Charge of 
 
 Barri 197 
 
 XVIII. Tutor and Pupil 212 
 
 XIX. Confidence between Mrs. Arnaud and 
 
 George Drummond . . . .221 
 
 XX. Mrs. Arnaud tells a Lie to Drummond. 227
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE HOUSE OF RIIYADER AND FESTIXIOG. 
 
 The two sons of the old house of Khyader 
 developed singularly different dispositions, 
 though both gave great cause of anxiety to 
 their father, at one time. Scarcely divided 
 by one year in age, they were as distant as 
 the poles, both in pursuits and in character. 
 Gervase the elder, began life as a solemn 
 and pensive baby, who at his christening 
 attended cautiously to the ceremony, as if 
 to see that it was correctly done in every 
 particular. Shortly afterwards he became 
 
 VOL. I. b
 
 2 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 a precocious boy, and wrote some admirable 
 poetry. Not long afterwards he became a 
 precocious young man, with all the learning 
 of the Egyptians at his fingers' ends. He 
 was a young gentleman of great promise, 
 and although his performances never came 
 up to his promises, he was an all too ex- 
 cellent young gentleman. His inexorable 
 virtues led him at one time it was suspected 
 Eomewards, but he never went ; he never 
 did anything incautious. 
 
 Iltyd the younger son, was, on the other 
 hand, a violent baby, a violent, and as some 
 said, a stupid boy, and a most headstrong 
 young man. The mother died not long 
 after Iltyd had attained his tenth year, 
 leaving the head of the house a widower ; 
 and after that event no one could do any- 
 thing with the younger son, save his father 
 and his brother. To these two people, and
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 3 
 
 to these alone (save possibly the colonel of 
 his regiment when he chose), would he listen. 
 The father and brother, who were both 
 crazy about their pedigree, were proud of 
 him. The father would say : ' He is a real 
 De Barri, the inexorable spirit of Giraldua 
 Cambrensis is alive in him ; ' and the 
 brother would say, ' It is true ; he may do us 
 honour in war ; it is a pity we ever took 
 the name of Arnaud, and allowed the Irish 
 Barrys to usurp our real honours.' 
 
 Iltyd Gerald Baldwin Arnaud, christened 
 carefully after the Saint, the Archdeacon 
 and the Archbishop, cast the traditions of his 
 family to the winds, and voted Giraldus 
 Cambrensis the greatest bore of all the 
 Barris. The great Bhys he pronounced to 
 be a noodle, inasmuch as he could not 
 keep his own kingdom ; and he very much 
 affected the company of one Halfacre a
 
 4 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 groom, who, lie declared, was a de- 
 scendant of Halfager, and consequently a 
 prince in disguise. Iltyd was sent into the 
 army very young, and was a most excellent 
 young officer, though he got into early 
 trouble by incontinence of speech. The 
 colonel of his regiment having incautiously 
 remarked that his family had come over with 
 the Conqueror, Iltyd said, ' You pack of 
 rascals were a little too late, we came over 
 with the FitzGeralds in the time of Edward 
 the Confessor.' He was a foolish young 
 man, and was rebuked most properly. He 
 would laugh at his own pedigree, but only 
 in his own family. 
 
 As the brothers Gervase and Iltyd grew 
 to manhood, one seemed to give to the other 
 what was wanted by each. Gervase over- 
 read himself, and pushed his religion to the 
 verge of extreme asceticism ; Iltyd, on the
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 5 
 
 other hand, would come home on leave from 
 his regiment and tear Gervase from his 
 study, carrying him over hill, moor, and 
 torrent, up to some nook among the wild 
 Welsh mountains, where they could hear no 
 sound save the distant trickling of waters. 
 Then Iltyd would tell Gervase all about the 
 strange magnificence of London and Paris : 
 and how he, whose short curls were now 
 lying on his brother's shoulder, had yester- 
 day been at court ; and how the pale man 
 that he had been trying to describe was the 
 Emperor, and the boy was the Prince of 
 Wales, and so on ; trying to fix the colours 
 and forms of a kaleidoscope to suit the eye 
 of his brother, to whom, at this time, all 
 these people were mere names. 
 
 Then they would wander down to the 
 old priory in the hollow, so dearly beloved 
 by the greatest of their family, and among
 
 6 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 the shattered Norman and early English 
 arches, Gervase would talk about the 
 crusade preached by Giraldus Cambrensis 
 and Baldwin in that spot, until Iltyd would 
 catch his enthusiasm, and believe that the 
 campaign which was now imminent was, in 
 reality, another crusade to snatch the holy 
 places from the hands of an alien and, in 
 reality, barbarous power. Then they would 
 go back to the castle, and their father 
 would say, as he saw them coming home 
 arm in arm, ' nothing will separate those two, 
 except a woman.'' 
 
 The war came, blazed up, burnt low, 
 blazed up again, and then died out. Iltyd 
 was all through it and behaved with credit 
 and distinction : he came home a captain, 
 but, being in the Guards, with, of course, the 
 title of colonel. But meanwhile something 
 had happened to the branch of the Barri
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 7 
 
 family which had never been calculated on 
 for a moment. 
 
 The head of the Festiniog family lost 
 his eldest son by typhoid fever, and before 
 he had time to reflect on the matter, news 
 came that his last surviving son was killed 
 in the trenches. The head of the Ehyaders, 
 the father of our two young gentlemen, at 
 once went to give such consolation to his 
 cousin as he could ; and he urged him 
 strongly to marry again. The old man, with 
 the obstinacy of the Ehys family crossed 
 through endless generations with that of the 
 De Barris, had a will of his own. He said 
 that the hand of God was in it, that the 
 Festiniog estates must join those of Ilhyader, 
 and that the latter house had two noble sons 
 to represent the allied families. Instead of 
 marrying, he made his will, and by no means 
 too soon, for he died very shortly afterwards,
 
 8 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 leaving, out of his personal property, seven 
 thousand pounds to Iltyd, as a memorial of 
 his gallantry in war. 
 
 The Rhyaders therefore from being 
 merely as the Irish say s decent ' people, 
 that is to say very rich, became immensely 
 so. Rhyader took the title of Festiniog, 
 and became a pillar of the State. 
 
 The Eomish tendencies of Gervase, the 
 elder of the two sons, gave the most dread- 
 ful trouble to his father. The entailed 
 estates of the two branches of the family 
 would most certainly come to Gervase. 
 
 Gervase (as was said by his friends) 
 was actually thinking of joining the Roman 
 priesthood, and openly talking about it. 
 Had he done so, a large part of the vnst 
 revenues which had come to the Rhyader 
 branch of the family would flow into the 
 coffers of the Papacy. Llanavon would be
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 9 
 
 restored, and monks would walk about 
 among the violent Welsh dissenters to be 
 stoned : to the new Lord Festiniog such a 
 state of things appeared most horrible, for 
 he was one of the most extreme of all Pro- 
 testants. Yet he was afraid of his son, and 
 he did not know what to do. He, in the end, 
 had to do nothing at all ; affairs arranged 
 themselves for him. Gervase with his new 
 honours fresh upon him went to a ball at 
 Powys Castle, to look, they said, for the last 
 time, on the frivolities of this wicked world. 
 Like many holy men, including Eichelieu, 
 he was an admirable dancer, and he danced 
 that night so often with only one young 
 lady, that the county raised their eyebrows, 
 and listened to such of the conversation as 
 they could hear, between the Festiniog heir 
 and Miss Ormerod, as hard as they could. In 
 the interval of the dances they seemed to
 
 io NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 talk about nothing but religious matters, and 
 the noise went abroad that Miss Ornierod 
 was going to take the veil when Gervase 
 took the cowl. 
 
 Such was by no means the fact. Gervase 
 had fallen in love with Alice Ormerod, the 
 moment he saw her. She was so exceed- 
 ingly beautiful and charming that there 
 would have been no wonder in the matter at 
 all, had it not been put about that Gervase 
 had not only devoted his life to the secular 
 Roman priesthood but even to the regular ; 
 the reality being that he was nothing more 
 than a very high churchman for those times, 
 and had a peculiar and very strong antipathy 
 to the Papacy. 
 
 Miss Grmerod held similar views, and to 
 the great delight of her father-in-law very 
 soon became the wife of Gervase. 
 
 Twelve months had nut passed before
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 11 
 
 she had an heir to the combined estates of 
 Festiniog and Khyader ; but twelve months 
 more had not passed before she was a hope- 
 less, childless cripple, and active life was 
 over for her in this world. Driving down 
 one of the mountainous lanes near Llanavon, 
 the pony took fright and became unmanage- 
 able. The nurse and child were thrown 
 against a stone wall and killed ; and Lady 
 Rhyader, after trembling for a year between 
 this world and the next, became an ap- 
 parently hopeless invalid. 
 
 If Gervase had loved her before, he 
 adored her now. The year during which 
 he had dreaded to lose her had only ren- 
 dered her more precious. The eight years 
 which followed on that year, had rendered 
 her more precious still. Gervase Arnaud 
 thought that he had made his mind up on 
 every subject save one ; and on that one
 
 12 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 point he could get uo information whatever. 
 His wife and he had every thought, every 
 sentiment, every hope in common ; but he 
 wanted to know if there was any chance of 
 their meeting after death. Eome said no, 
 save under certain conditions, to which he 
 would not submit. The Anglicans said, veiy 
 properly, that they could not tell him. 
 Neither the Irvingites nor the Swedenbor- 
 gians satisfied him. A keen, shrewd man 
 enough in most things, he had cast his lot in 
 with one woman, and made himself foolish 
 about her. The High Church people de- 
 clined most properly to tell him more than 
 they knew, and he w r ent elsewhere. The 
 last people he tried were the Moravians ; 
 they told him that if he thought so much 
 of his wife he was unfit for bliss. In 
 short, he could get no satisfaction at all on 
 the subject of his meeting his w r ife in a
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 13 
 
 future state. Spiritualism was not then, or 
 he mi^ht have taken to that. After eight 
 years it would have taken a Mosheim to say 
 of what heresy he was innocent. 
 
 Possibly of none ; any man who studies 
 theology is the heretic of half an hour. A 
 man who does not assimilate the various 
 heresies one by one, wants genius, and is no 
 true theologian. Gervase was a postulant to 
 every heresy in ecclesiastical history for 
 some time, but he came back to the high 
 church party after all. 
 
 His father, Lord Festiniog, had gone to 
 Eome, and had written from there that he 
 wished to see him. At this time his wife, 
 Lady Ehyader, for the second title of Fes- 
 tiniog was the same as their old one, was 
 hopeless. She was moved from the sofa 
 to her bed, and back again. He left her 
 in the most reluctant manner, for she had
 
 14 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 not stood upright for seven years. He saw 
 his father at Eome, and then came back to 
 Llanavon, after an absence of six weeks. 
 
 There had been a silence as regards 
 letters between them, which will be ex- 
 plained immediately. He thought from this 
 that she might be worse ; that she could 
 write to him no longer. He got no word 
 from her at all ; he dared not go to his own 
 home at Llanavon, for the servants might 
 tell him she was dead. 
 
 He got out of the train at Llanganfraid 
 and went across the mountains. After a 
 long walk he came in sight of the castle, and 
 everything seemed as usual. He looked on 
 the terrace, and he saw her invalid chair 
 there, with the rugs and shawls upon it, but 
 it was empty. 
 
 He did not know what to think. He 
 dashed from rock to rock. Space and time
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 15 
 
 seemed to be annihilated. Here was the 
 chair in which he had left her, a hopeless 
 invalid ; here was her fan, here were the 
 letters from her friends strewed around ; 
 here were the prints of her sacred feet on 
 the cushion, but where was she? 
 
 ' Alice ! Alice ! ' he called aloud, ' where 
 are you ? ' 
 
 ' Gervase ! Gervase ! ' answered a clear 
 strong voice from the shrubbery close by. 
 ' I am here ; come to me, darling.' 
 
 He ran into the thicket close by, and 
 there was his wife, more beautiful than ever. 
 She told him the truth at once. 
 
 'First I found that I could stand, and 
 then I found that I could walk; but I 
 thought that I would say nothing about it to 
 any one. I should not even have told you, 
 had you not surprised me in this way ; during 
 the last fortnight I must have walked miles.'
 
 1 6 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' But have you never asked Doctor 
 W ' said Gervase. 
 
 ' No ! I do not tli ink he knows his busi- 
 ness at all. I shall be able to walk with 
 you again now ; I shall soon get stronger I 
 am sure. We can go over the hills together 
 as of old. We shall be together as we 
 once hoped to be.' 
 
 It now becomes necessary to leave Ger- 
 vase in his new honeymoon, and follow 
 Iltyd. The fact must be told at once ; after 
 the war he had done little good for himself 
 or others. He had very nearly quarrelled 
 with his father and his brother and was in 
 their bad books. He had lost some 
 money at horse-racing, a thing which 
 has been done before. He had also run 
 away with a young milliner from the West- 
 end, which was bad ; and was reported to 
 have married her at the consulate at Leghorn,
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. i 7 
 
 which was considered in certain circles to be 
 worse. After having fulfilled the catalogue 
 of his crimes he died. Some people were 
 very sorry for him, the commander-in-chief 
 was, his father was ; while his ' brother 
 Gervase would have given half his income to 
 get him back again ; but unfortunately he 
 was dead, and so sorrow was not of the least 
 avail ; no more in short than it would be in 
 your case or in our own. 
 
 The sorrow of two people only took 
 practical results. Lord Festiniog held con- 
 sultation with his son Gervase. They deter- 
 mined that ' the woman ' and her child just 
 born should not suffer, in a pecuniary 
 point of view. 
 
 This determination was made just after 
 
 the birth of Gervase's first child ; before the 
 
 accident which made the now great house 
 
 heirless. It was persevered in, most faith- 
 
 vol. i. c
 
 1 8 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 fully as far as ' the woman ' was concerned 
 for many years, until after the time when 
 Gervase's second child, the one born after 
 his wife's recovery, was a boy of fourteen. 
 
 The poor woman had from the first 
 accepted her position most humbly : she 
 thanked Lord Festiniog and Lord Ehyader 
 most heartily for their assistance, pointed 
 out frankly to the family that she had six 
 thousand pounds left her by her husband; 
 and needed nothing except the future help 
 of the family for the education of her little 
 boy. Every promise was given, and of 
 course no objection was made to her request 
 to live abroad at Leghorn, near the grave of 
 Iltyd ; it was the best for all parties. No 
 objection was made either to her supple- 
 menting her income by her trade : in fact, 
 they never knew that she was doing so. 
 
 She lived in great retirement with her
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 19 
 
 child in Leghorn, and she was more than 
 once seen there by the family solicitor, 
 young Mr. Drummond, who generally spent 
 part of the long vacation there. He gave 
 the most excellent account of her beauty, 
 her character, and her accomplishments, and 
 spoke so much about her, that one day Lord 
 Festiniog turned from some papers which he 
 was examining, and said : — 
 
 ' Drummond, if you have really any 
 honourable intentions towards the poor 
 woman, tell me so. Our family have done 
 her the most irreparable wrong ; if you 
 think of marrying her, I will most certainly 
 make her a very handsome settlement.' 
 
 ' My lord,' he replied, ' there are insuper- 
 able objections.' 
 
 ' Nonsense, man, none but what may be 
 2;ot over with time.' 
 
 ' I mean on my side, my lord.' 
 
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 20 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' Pray forgive me ; I ought not to have 
 mentioned the subject ; only you spoke of 
 her with such enthusiasm and admiration, 
 that you cannot blame me.' 
 
 ' I do not my lord, but the strict truth is 
 that before I knew my own mind I formed 
 other ties.' 
 
 ' I never heard of that.' 
 
 ' Nor do I wish others to do so. I only 
 mentioned the fact to account for my 
 conduct.' 
 
 ' Then it is your duty surely to keep 
 away from her, is it not ? ' 
 
 ' I assure you that there is not any 
 danger, less than you could possibly dream 
 of. Mrs. Arnaud, as she calls herself, is my 
 friend, but she never could be anything 
 more.' 
 
 Lord Festiniog pretended to be satisfied, 
 but he was very far from being so. He put
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 21 
 
 the matter aside as being no particular busi- 
 ness of his, though lie thought that the cool 
 Drummond was one of the last men to make 
 a foolish and clandestine marriage. Still he 
 reflected that if one half of the world knew 
 half of the follies committed by the other 
 half, society would become impossible. 
 
 Drummond saw Mrs. Arnaud every 
 summer for some ) r ears, and did her many 
 little services. One summer when he went, 
 he found that she was at Ravenna, and 
 followed her there, only to find her start- 
 lingly ill in a rather secluded lodging by the 
 sea. She explained to him that she had 
 only come there for the boy's sake, for that 
 he wanted a little change, and her servant 
 had told her that Ravenna was particularly 
 healthy. ' The woman had been born there/ 
 she said. 
 
 Drummond was very angry and loud
 
 22 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 about the matter. ' The woman wants to 
 come here after her people, I suppose — con- 
 found her. It is one of the worst fever 
 holes in Europe. You should come away 
 at once.' 
 
 ' I should like to do so I am sure,' she 
 said ; ' but I feel too ill to move.' And 
 indeed she seemed so. Drummond went 
 away after her servant, and came back tell- 
 ing her that he had scolded the woman, that 
 she was going to be ill, and that there was 
 no danger. 
 
 It appears that the woman deceived 
 them on that point ; Mrs. Arnaud was very 
 ill indeed, and Drummond was evidently 
 terrified. The woman Carlina told him that 
 she would be delirious for a few days. She 
 became so, and sunk into a lethargy ; once 
 she seemed so nearly gone that he said to 
 Carlina, in a way very different from his
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 23 
 
 ordinary business one, 'if she dies, I will 
 kill you.' 
 
 She did not die, she lingered on into a 
 slow return to consciousness. She asked for 
 her child, but she was told that it was 
 dangerous for him to come near her. The 
 necessity for breaking the truth to her came 
 at last. The child had cauidit the fever 
 from her and had died. 
 
 She relapsed into delirium, and imbeci- 
 lity for a time. The first day she was in 
 Gfood health enough to travel she insisted on 
 going straight to England as soon as she had 
 put a stone on the grave of the boy. She 
 was perfectly resolute about it, though 
 Drummond rather urged her not to under- 
 take the journey. Nothing could turn her, 
 and to England she came in his company ; 
 and went straight to Lord Festiniog, asking 
 his protection : he saw no reason why he
 
 34 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 should not grant it, and so gave his consent, 
 which was by no means necessary, to her 
 entering a society of religious ladies which 
 had become known to his eccentric son in 
 one of his religious experiments. Here she 
 lived for some years unmolested, and almost 
 happy. Her dead child was always before 
 her certainly : but he was in heaven, so she 
 thought how wicked it was for her to mourn 
 for him. He could not always have been a 
 child, but must have grown to be a man. 
 And although her husband Iltyd was a saint, 
 still all men were not satisfactory. He 
 might have grown into a Drummond, and 
 that would not have pleased her, kind as he 
 was. 
 
 Lord Ehyader and his very charming 
 wife frequently saw her ; her guilt was so 
 apparently innocent that they thought of it 
 very little. Once Lord Ehyader, in one of
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 25 
 
 his religious moods, spoke to her about it, 
 and expressed himself glad to see how 
 entirely she had repented. 
 
 ' My guilt ! ' she said ; ' I am not guilty. 
 My poor Saint, Iltyd, made a most innocent 
 mistake. That is all. You must not use 
 that word again to me, my lord ; ' and she 
 rose and looked at him in a way he did not 
 like. 
 
 ' Come,' he said, ' do not call me my 
 lord, call me Gervase : do not let us quarrel. 
 Are you happy here ? ' 
 
 ' Yes. I shall go into the world no 
 more, I think. My mother, and the rest of 
 
 my relations left me soon after. Well 
 
 you know what I mean.' 
 
 ' So I understood,' said Lord Ehyader. 
 ' You have, I suppose, given the money you 
 have to the sisterhood. Not that I am 
 likely to care about it, but if you have made
 
 26 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 any deed of gift in this direction, you might 
 feel yourself, as it were, bound to stay 
 here. If you desire to go once more into 
 the world, I assure you that we will take 
 the greatest care that you have ample 
 means : even in case of your marrying 
 again.' 
 
 ' That is very nobly said, Gervase, ' she 
 replied ; ' but I have kept what money I 
 have entirely in my own hands.' 
 
 ' Then you will not be beholden to us 
 in any way ? ' 
 
 ' If it becomes necessary, yes ; at present, 
 no.' And on these terms they remained. 
 
 Her money was part of it laid out 
 in mortgage, and one of her mortgagers 
 died. Her lawyer who had been her 
 husband's, was no other than her old friend 
 Drummond. It was necessary that she 
 should go to London and see him.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 27 
 
 CHAPTEE II. 
 
 THE RETURN TO THE WORLD. 
 
 Years had passed since she had seen 
 Drummond, and years had passed since she 
 had been in London. She had heard from 
 him formally many times, and on one or 
 two occasions confidentially. But as for as 
 she was concerned he belonged to the past, 
 and she supposed that he had entirely for- 
 gotten the passion which he had once un- 
 doubtedly entertained for her. 
 
 She approached his office with a feeling 
 of curiosity. What was he like now ? She 
 thought lie was a handsome fellow once, 
 though never comparable to Iltyd. ' How-
 
 28 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ever, he played the villain to me ; he 
 pestered me with his attentions, and I only- 
 found out from Lord Festiniog that he was 
 married all the time. If my lord knew that, 
 what a rage he would be in ; I will never 
 tell the truth about that, for the man was 
 very kind to me when my boy died. He 
 was very agreeable, and I think that I could 
 have trusted him once, I certainly cannot 
 now.' 
 
 She went into his front office in West- 
 minster, and sent in her name. No client 
 was with him, and she was asked in at once. 
 She passed into the room a handsome woman 
 of less than forty ; she came out, the clerks 
 noticed, looking much older. 
 
 He was little altered, as she saw at once 
 when he rose to receive her. He held out his 
 hand and said 'Mary,' but she replied, 'Mrs. 
 Arnaud, if you please.' The clerks heard no
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 29 
 
 more. What passed between them is a 
 mere matter of detail : no one knew in fact 
 until long afterwards. 
 
 Her last words, however, as she was 
 leaving, were perfectly audible. ' You are 
 certainly right and I see it now. I thank 
 you, though I never can reward you in the 
 way you desire. You have done Iltyd's 
 memory a great service. Could he know of 
 it he would thank you as deeply as I do. I 
 will vindicate his memory in my own way. 
 Meanwhile, I will entirely keep your counsel 
 for the sake of old times. Depend com- 
 pletely on that.' 
 
 Mrs. Arnaud never went back to the 
 religious house where she had lived so 
 happily. She stayed in London, and entered 
 into a long and acrimonious correspondence 
 with Lord Festiniog. They both lost their 
 tempers over the matter, and at last he said
 
 30 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 that she might carry out her threat and go 
 to anywhere her own way. 
 
 She did so, and from this moment our 
 story as regards her really begins. She was 
 determined to live without the countenance 
 of the family any longer. She will explain 
 her reasons herself hereafter. 
 
 She consulted Drummond as to the best 
 way of doing so. He at once told her of an 
 excellent investment at No. 17 Hartley Street, 
 Cavendish Square. It was a fashionable 
 milliner's business which she could conduct 
 herself most perfectly, and which was for 
 sale by private contract. He had known of 
 the fact through his own son being a lodger 
 in the house. 
 
 ' Your son,' she said. 
 
 ' Yes,' lie said ; ' I have not brought him 
 up to the law. He is in the Home office ; a 
 poor appointment as yet. You have heard 
 surely how painful my married life was ? '
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 31 
 
 ' YeSj Lord Festiniog told me some of it.' 
 ' Well, I love the young man and he is 
 devoted to me, but he has at times a look so 
 fearfully like his mother that I dread to look 
 at him. I could not have him sitting oppo- 
 site me in the office all day, and every day. 
 I should never forget the past. You can 
 understand that, my dear Mrs. Arnaud. 
 
 ' Well indeed,' said Mrs. Arnaud, ' the 
 past has not been very happy for either of 
 us. You, however, have had most to bear. 
 I earnestly hope, Mr. Drummond, that the 
 presence of your son in my house will not 
 cause us to meet oftener than courtesy 
 
 permits. 
 
 ' You persist in your difficult resolution/ 
 
 ' Yes. 
 
 ' Well, do not mention my name.' 
 
 4 I will certainly not do so.' 
 
 And so Mrs. Arnaud began life once 
 
 more on her own acccunt.
 
 32 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 MRS. AENAUD. 
 
 To be entirely alone in a strange house, 
 after making a great resolution and carrying 
 it out to the end : after doing a thing which 
 was terrifying to think of before it was done, 
 and when accomplished was more fearful 
 still ; was not by any means a reassuring 
 position. Mrs. Arnaud felt that, as she sat 
 down in her little dark back parlour, and 
 thought of the past and of the future. She 
 had taken the great step of her life, and was 
 by herself, for the first time, face to face with 
 facts. 
 
 She was at this time about forty, looking 
 about five and twenty : complexion and
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 33 
 
 features were still perfect, and her vast mass 
 of dark hair, gathered behind and falling in 
 a large curl over her left shoulder, was un- 
 touched with grey : she wore over it a small 
 lace cap ; from the throat downwards fell a 
 long white shawl of the same material, and 
 her gown was of dark purple silk. Possibly 
 there was not in the West End of London 
 that summer's evening a handsomer or more 
 perfectly dressed woman than Mrs. Arnaud, 
 of No. 17 Hartley Street, Cavendish Square, 
 milliner and dressmaker. 
 
 She had come back at last to her old 
 trade, which had been her mother's before 
 her. After many years' seclusion as a re- 
 ligious lady, she had once more thrust her- 
 self before the public in fulfilment of a 
 certain threat, and she was utterly alone in 
 her terror : she had sent out her maid 
 Rachel, and there was no movement in the 
 
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 34 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 house except the ticking of the French clock 
 on the mantel-piece. She opened the door 
 leading to the shop and looked in : it was 
 nearly dark, for the shutters were up, but 
 was set out ready for the morrow, when she 
 would open it. It was full of ghostly female 
 figures, in splendid dim-seen raiment, but 
 without heads. Two of them nearest the 
 window, in her sickly fancy, seemed like 
 Marie Antoinette and the Princess de Lam- 
 balle risen from the dead. To-morrow 
 morning the shutters would be down, and 
 the garish sunlight would be in the place ; she 
 herself would have to take her place among 
 the headless images, herself the best dressed 
 among; them all. On the dreadful morrow 
 every noodle in London would have the 
 right of staring at the beautiful Mrs. Arnaud, 
 and woidd discuss her history unfavourably 
 to herself. And although she wished that
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 35 
 
 the morrow was come, and that her torture 
 was begun, the present solitude was almost 
 too horrible to be born. 
 
 One of the bravest men in the world, a 
 non-combatant, said to us once, about the 
 battle of the Alma, that he was more fright- 
 ened at the beginning of that battle than 
 ever he had been since he went in for viva 
 voce in his little-go. Our friend was not 
 easily frightened, any more than was Mrs. 
 Arnaud. Still Mrs. Arnaud was in a state 
 of nervous terror difficult to be conceived. 
 She kept on saying to herself, ' if he were to 
 come now, when Eachel is away and I am 
 alone, I should go out of my mind. And he 
 is in town, and might take it into his head 
 to come. What on earth should I do then ? ' 
 She sat down again and waited, with her 
 heart in her mouth, for every footfall. 
 
 What could Lord Ehyader have done to
 
 36 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 her if lie had come ? She never asked her- 
 self that question : an all too blameless noble- 
 man, devoted to his country's good, a man 
 who would have died sooner than say a rude 
 word to a costermonger's wife ; what had 
 she to fear from him ? He was not likely to 
 murder her ; had he done so, her troubles 
 would have been over for ever, and he would 
 have fallen a victim to the outraged laws of 
 the British Empire ; two results, which in 
 her present state of mind she could have 
 regarded with quiet satisfaction. Why 
 should she, therefore, be so dreadfully afraid 
 of Lord Rhyader ? 
 
 She was so afraid of his coming and find- 
 higher alone, however, that she could not sit 
 still, she wandered out from the little back 
 parlour through the door which connected it 
 with the hall. Here she found something 
 
 CD 
 
 which distracted her thoughts for a short
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. yj 
 
 time. She had not only bought the dress- 
 making business of her predecessor, but 
 she had bought the lease of the house, 
 and the lodgers also. She had got a 
 categorical description of those lodgers, but 
 she had never seen any of them, for it was 
 her first evening in the house : according to 
 her predecessor, they were the best lodgers 
 ever seen : giving no earthly trouble and 
 paying like clockwork. It suddenly struck 
 her that her new servants had not arrived, 
 that her lodgers were still out, and that it 
 would be quite as well to go through their 
 rooms and see that all was comfortable for 
 them. The new servants were to come at 
 night ; Eachel would not be home before 
 that time and would probably be cross ; so 
 she went upstairs with a candle, and with a 
 new anxiety left her fright behind her for a 
 short time.
 
 3 S NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 The first floor, directly over the shop, 
 was so large, that she lit the Honourable 
 Algernon D'Arcy's gas for him, and then 
 looked round his room, or rather her own. 
 He was a young guardsman, she knew, so 
 she was bound to love him, and assist him in 
 every way, as a soldier's widow. After a 
 very carefully carried out examination of his 
 rooms, and such of his papers as were lying 
 about, she was forced to conclude that he 
 had not so much as learnt the grammar of 
 art, and had turned his genius principally 
 to mathematics. His oleographs and chro- 
 molithographs were neither well selected nor 
 well arranged ; and as for the mathematical 
 papers which were strewn about, she argued 
 from the frequent corrections that it would 
 take Mrs. Somerville and Sir John Herschel 
 to set them right again. That he was an 
 extremely diligent officer she had heard
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 39 
 
 from her predecessor, but she left his room 
 with the impression that he was cramming 
 with an insufficient education. That he de- 
 sired to be married to a religious young 
 lady, and that there were temporary diffi- 
 culties in the way, she discovered before 
 she had been in the room ten minutes. We 
 can no more tell how she did so than we can 
 tell how a laden bee knows the way home, 
 or how she discovered that he was careless 
 with his money, and that his mother was 
 dead. She, however, made all these dis- 
 coveries before she left his room and went 
 up to the second floor, saying to herself, 
 ' poor fellow, he wants looking after, I 
 will treat him as though he were my own 
 lost boy.' 
 
 The second floor was in the occupation 
 of Mr. George Drummond, the lawyer's son 
 and heir, a young clerk in the Home office.
 
 40 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 His aesthetic tastes seemed to be superior to 
 Mr. D'Arcy's, and his habits more methodi- 
 cal ; his solitary picture was an artist's proof 
 of Holman Hunt's ' Finding in the Temple,' 
 and altogether he seemed a methodical 
 person ; none of his papers were lying 
 about ; his pipes were arranged in racks 
 over the mantel-piece, and on either side 
 were two japanned receptacles, like those in 
 an office, one marked ' bills paid,' and the 
 other 'bills unpaid;' the former was full, 
 the latter was empty ; Mr. D'Arcy below 
 had no such arrangement, and Mrs. Arnaud 
 thought that Mr. Drummond would be an 
 excellent lodger, who would require no 
 taking care of, as he seemed perfectly able 
 to take care of himself. He was evidently 
 the sort of person she disliked heartily, the 
 very arrangement of his books in his bed- 
 room offended her ; he must have put them
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 41 
 
 right himself that morning, for there was no 
 one else to do it : they were there in a row, 
 just as if an idle valet had placed them. She 
 took a dislike to Mr. Drummond, and a 
 very strong liking for Mr. D'Arcy, ' yet,' she 
 thought, ' it is unfair to remember who his 
 father was.' 
 
 Then, she went down stairs again, and as 
 she went looked into D'Arcy 's room, and sat 
 down in his easy chair for a time. Then she 
 found herself in the hall, with the light play- 
 ing in over the door, and she knew that she 
 must go back again alone into her solitude. 
 
 There was a swift foot upon the steps, 
 and for an instant she remained paralysed 
 with the idea that it was Lord Ehyader. 
 She might have reassured herself had she 
 had time to think, for whatever powers Lord 
 Ehyader had over her, he had certainly not 
 got the latch-key of her house. The new-
 
 
 42 NUMBER SEVENTEEX. 
 
 comer had, and used it with familiarity; the 
 door was open for a moment and she saw a 
 tall figure against the evening sky. Then 
 the door was shut, and she was in semi-dark- 
 ness with a man. 
 
 ; To whom have I the honour of — ' said 
 Mrs. Arnaud. 
 
 ' George Drummond,' said a pleasant 
 voice. ' I suppose you are Mrs. Arnaud.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 43 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 MRS. ARNAUD'S DEFIANCE. 
 
 It was rather an unfortunate introduction 
 between these two people, for at the sound 
 of George Drummond's voice she grew faint, 
 and ashed him to £>ive her his arm. He did 
 so at once, of course, and led her into the 
 parlour behind the shop. She sat down on 
 the sofa, and George Drummond would 
 possibly have asked her how she felt, but at 
 that moment there came a thundering knock 
 at the door. 
 
 4 Mrs. Arnaud started up at once, ' There 
 he is,' she said : ' Mr. Drummond, I charge 
 you not to leave me alone with that man.'
 
 44 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' Certainly not,' said George Drummond, 
 ' but what is the man's name ? ' 
 
 ' Lord Ehyader,' said Mrs. Arnaud. ' If 
 I am left alone with him there will be mis- 
 chief.' 
 
 ' Lord Ehyader ! ' said George Drum- 
 mond : ' why I know him very well. What 
 makes you afraid of him ? ' 
 
 ; No matter,' said Mrs. Arnaud, ' you 
 stay with me, that is all.' 
 
 ; I will stay with you, certainly,' said 
 George Drummond, ' but when is your ser- 
 vant going to open the door ? ' 
 
 ' My servants are all out,' said Mrs. Ar- 
 naud. ' Heavens, he is knocking again.' 
 
 ' Let me go and open the door,' said 
 George Drummond. 
 
 'If you are not afraid,' said Mrs. Ar- 
 naud. 
 
 ' Who was ever afraid of Lord Ehyader ? '
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 45 
 
 he said ; and while she lit the candle, he 
 went and cpened the door, so they came in 
 together. 
 
 He was by no means a terrible looking 
 person, being of peaceful aspect, about forty- 
 five, wearing spectacles, and mutton-chop 
 whiskers. Had you met him in the street 
 you would have taken him for a successful 
 barrister, a thing which he probably would 
 have been had he not been possessed of 
 fifty thousand a year in prospect. His 
 first words as he came before George 
 Drummond were, ' My dear Mary, what in- 
 sanity is this ? ' 
 
 ' Gervase,' she said trembling and 
 pale : ' you have brought it on yourself, and 
 you see the results. Allow me to observe 
 that there is a third person in the room, a 
 stranger to me at all events, though his 
 father was none.'
 
 46 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 Lord Rhyader turned and saw George 
 Drammond, ' Why Drinnmond ! ' he ex- 
 claimed with unfeigned astonishment, 'what 
 brings you here ? ' 
 
 ' I might ask you the same question, with 
 the same look of amazement, Lord Ehyader,' 
 said George Drummond, laughing, ' only 
 Mrs. Arnaud, whom I found alone in the 
 house, told me whom I was to expect. The 
 mystery on my part is easily solved, I am 
 Mrs. Arnaud's lodger.' 
 
 ' I did not know you had moved,' said 
 Lord Rhyader. ' I am very anxious to see 
 Mrs. Arnaud alone. Nay, Mary, I will : 
 sooner or later we must have an explanation. 
 Why not have it over at once ?' 
 
 ' You had better go, Mr. Drummond,' 
 said Mrs. Arnaud, quietly ; and he went. 
 
 Lord Ehyader sat opposite to Mrs. Ar- 
 naud silent for half a minute, until he saw
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 47 
 
 that he would have to speak first : he did 
 so. 
 
 1 This is scarcely fair, Mary.' 
 
 ' I do not know what you mean, Gervase.' 
 
 'I think you do, for you have accepted 
 my protection and that of Lady Rhyader for 
 some years now, and acquiesced in your real 
 position, which I confess was a very painful 
 one.' 
 
 ' I never acquiesced in my real position, 
 I consented to a false one, for the sake of 
 one who is lost. Now that I know the truth, 
 I withdraw from my former situation, and 
 prove him to be an honourable man.' 
 
 Her courage was coming back to her 
 rapidly now. The terror of this interview 
 and this explanation had nearly driven her 
 mad ; here it had come : here she was face 
 to face with facts, and she was not in the 
 least degree frightened. How completely
 
 4S NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 absurd artificial terrors are, and yet how 
 terrible until they are faced. The thing had 
 come on her, the anticipation of which had 
 made her half crazy, and she was almost 
 laughing over her winning hand. He had 
 played his last card. He could do nothing- 
 more than he had done. He was entirely 
 powerless. What a fool she thought herself 
 for ever having been frightened. 
 
 ' Mary,' he said, ' will you listen to 
 reason ? ' 
 
 ' Yes.' 
 
 ' Will you allow me to go through the 
 facts of our relations, like a lawyer ? ' 
 
 ' Certainly. I shall correct you when 
 you err, however.' 
 
 ' Good,' said Lord Pdiyader : ' My poor 
 brother grossly deceived himself and you by 
 inducing you and himself also to believe that 
 you were married to him. Such you know 
 was not the fact.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN 49 
 
 ' Such, I know, now, was the fact. Lord 
 Festiniog and yourself could have known it 
 had you cared to do so. I was married at 
 the consulate at Leghorn, but I was told 
 afterwards that the marriage was illegal. 
 I believed it, whereas, Gervase, you know 
 that I am as honestly married as you are.' 
 
 ' Have you the proofs ? ' 
 
 ' Yes, I certainly have. Otherwise I 
 should never have had painted up over my 
 shop door " The Honourable Mrs. Arnaud." 
 
 ' Mary, you have never done that ! ' 
 
 ' Take the candle out into the street, and 
 look for yourself, Gervase. You will see 
 that I have done it ; and I told your father 
 that I would, and I have, and it will bring 
 custom to me, and annoyance to Lord Fes- 
 tiniog.' 
 
 ' Why do yon wish to annoy my father ? 
 He has been very kind to you.' 
 
 vol. 1. E
 
 50 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' Kind ! I am beholden to him for 
 nothing, and after I have put the proofs of 
 my marriage in his hand, he still hesitates to 
 
 recognise me. 
 
 ' Then this is the dreadful quarrel be- 
 tween you two, of which he has spoken 
 since I came from France.' 
 
 ' I suppose so. It is a matter of indiffe- 
 rence to me if it is or not. He knows that I 
 could put my legal claims to be his daughter- 
 in-law before any court of equity in the land, 
 were it worth my while, which it is not, for 
 I have no children. I offer to prove that 
 your brother Iltycl was an honourable man ; 
 he tries to prevent me, and leave your bro- 
 ther's memory with the stain of villany upon 
 it. Iltycl was no villain, and I will not have 
 him called so, even by his own father. What 
 is the use of discussing the matter further ; 
 your father has defied me, and the conse-
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 51 
 
 quence is that I have had " The Honourable 
 Mrs. Arnaud " painted up over my shop.' 
 
 ' But, Mary, supposing all this to be true, 
 why do you irritate my father so ? ' 
 
 'Why does he irritate me?' was her 
 answer. ' He has refused to acknowledge 
 me. Besides, what is the use of talking over 
 the matter ; the thing is done, and all London 
 will see it to-morrow.' 
 
 ; It will kill my father,' said Lord Iihy- 
 ader. 
 
 ' What nonsense people in your position 
 can talk, when they give their minds to it. 
 It will kill him, you say, to have his favourite 
 son's innocence proved to the world. I, 
 however, am not afraid of him.' 
 
 ' I fear you are afraid of no one, Mary.' 
 
 ' Yes. It is odd, but I am afraid of you. 
 At times only, mind, but still sometimes.' 
 
 ' At what times are those ? ' 
 
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 52 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' We have talked enough,' she replied, 
 1 1 am not afraid of you now, brother-in-law, 
 at all events. I am your sister-in-law, and 
 you cannot disprove it. Ah, you may wince, 
 but you cannot. Take my defiance to Lord 
 Festiniog, and tell him that if he will freely 
 do what I could force him to do, acknow- 
 ledge that his son was not a villain, I will 
 paint out my own name over the shop win- 
 dow, and paint in my niece's, for she is my 
 heiress.' 
 
 ' Your niece. I never saw her.' 
 ' Nor I. She is my brother's child. She 
 was brought up to the same trade as I was, 
 and by that great mistress of it, my mother. 
 You knew very little of us ; we never desired 
 that you should. My family, with which I 
 have parted in consequence of marrying your 
 brother, are the greatest family of dress- 
 makers in the world. It is in the bounds of
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 53 
 
 possibility that even my own mother may 
 speak to me again, when Lord Festiniog 
 recognises me — as he shall, now I know the 
 truth.' 
 
 ' I suppose there is no use prolonging the 
 discussion, Mary.' 
 
 'There is none to prolong,' said Mrs. 
 Arnaud, ' good night.' 
 
 Lord lihyader felt that he had nothing 
 to say but ' good night,' and so he said it 
 and went.
 
 54 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 MORE OF THE FIRST NIGHT. 
 
 The nightmare was gone. She had faced 
 Rhyader, and he had not quarrelled with 
 her. The whole secret of her terror lay in 
 that. He was her husband's brother, and 
 had been more kind to her than anybody. 
 He was really the only person who con- 
 nected her with her dead love. It is idle 
 to think that women capable of such strong 
 and almost violent resolutions, like Mrs. 
 Arnaud, have not a deep fund of tenderness 
 about them — that they cannot at times be 
 utterly weak. Gervase was Iltyd's brother, 
 and so she, who cared nothing for the world 
 as represented by Lord Festiniog, was terri-
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 55 
 
 fied lest he should quarrel with her. She 
 might have known that he never quarrelled 
 with anybody, but unfortunately she was 
 without that information. He was gone to 
 his father, and she feared he would have 
 rather a stormy time of it. 
 
 However, it was early yet, and there was 
 much more to be seen to before she went to 
 bed. Eachel was unaccountably long gone, 
 but here she was at last. A square fea- 
 tured middle aged woman, who had lost her 
 way, and her temper also, in the wilderness 
 of London, and who was very cross. She 
 had, it appeared, got into an omnibus to go 
 a little way up Oxford Street, and had found 
 herself at Smithfield. On getting out she 
 registered a vow never to <?et into one of 
 those vehicles again, and walked back asking 
 her way. She had been unable to do the 
 errand she was sent on, and was so utterly
 
 56 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 dazed that she thought she could not dare to 
 go out again. Mrs. Arnaud remonstrated, 
 but it was no use until George Drummond 
 coming down for something, at once volun- 
 teered to escort her. Mrs. Arnaud was so 
 delighted with his good humour that she 
 could have done anything for him. So she 
 was left alone in the house again, but not in 
 terror as before. 
 
 A single knock. It was the new maid. 
 She was easily disposed of and set to work. 
 Another single knock, it was the new foot- 
 man, who, having for the time being de- 
 posited his box downstairs, asked if he could 
 make himself useful at once. Mrs. Arnaud 
 sent him at once up stairs to see if Mr. 
 Drum mend's fire was burning. 
 
 The latch-key again, loud voices in the 
 hall, the door slammed, a crash of falling 
 human bodies, and oaths. Captain D'Arcy
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 57 
 
 and friend had come in in a very great hurry 
 and tumbled headlong over the footman's 
 box. ' Here is a pretty beginning,' said Mrs. 
 Arnaud, as she took out a candle, and dis- 
 covered to her horror that the hall gas had 
 never been lit. Two good-looking soldierly 
 men were rubbing their shins and elbows, 
 when this splendid, almost ghostly figure of 
 Mrs. Arnaud approached them. 
 
 ' Captain D'Arcy,' she said, addressing 
 the wrong one: 'I am exceedingly sorry 
 that the hall lamp was unfortunately not 
 lighted sooner. I will do everything I can 
 to make you comfortable, but I have only 
 arrived this afternoon, and you must try to 
 forgive the mishaps of the first night.' 
 
 ' That is done in every theatre, madame,' 
 said the man she had addressed, ' but I am 
 not D'Arcv, he is somewhere back in the 
 darkness, looking for his hat.'
 
 5S NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 D'Arcy reappeared with it on his head ; 
 the moment he saw Mrs. Arnaud, he took it 
 off again and bowed. 'I beg a thousand 
 pardons, Mrs. Arnaud, for entering the house 
 in this manner, but I fancy that you have 
 had some new convenience erected in the 
 hall since this morning, with the existence of 
 which I was unacquainted. I am aware 
 somehow of the presence of a foreign sub- 
 stance.' 
 
 A nice smiling slight man, very pleasant 
 to look at indeed, with a maimer which set 
 them all three laughing ; he bowed again 
 and passed on. Immediately afterwards 
 Rachel and George Drummond came in, and 
 the whole house was in a bustle. She, the 
 maid, the footman, and Rachel, were up- 
 stairs and down. It was eleven o'clock 
 before she, being then at the top of the 
 house, asked the maid (as pleasant a little
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 59 
 
 maid as need be) whether she knew if her 
 supper was ready. 
 
 ' Mrs. Eachel had got it ready,' she 
 said. 
 
 ' Well, then, 1 shall go to it,' she said, 
 adding to herself, ' She will not come to 
 night now. I hope she will to-morrow.' 
 
 She went down slowly to her own little 
 back parlour, approached the fireplace, and 
 then suddenly cried out loud, ' Good gracious 
 
 have mercy upon us ! '
 
 6o NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 1TEL0ISE. 
 
 Sitting in Mrs. Arnaud's own chair, with 
 open work-box beside her, and her bonnet 
 off, looking exactly as if she had been sitting 
 there habitually for the last ten years, was 
 the most lovely and beautifully dressed little 
 French brunette she had ever seen. She 
 simply took Mrs. Arnaud's breath away, and 
 if she had faded away at once Mrs. Arnaud 
 would have taken her to be a hallucination 
 of her own brain, produced by over excite- 
 ment, and taken medical advice. But she was 
 perfectly real, when she heard Mrs. Arnaud's 
 exclamation she looked up and came towards 
 her, sewing briskly. She put her work be- 
 hind her, kissed Mrs. Arnaud on both
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 61 
 
 cheeks, and then stood before her laughing 
 with her eyes and mouth (' what teeth,' 
 thought Mrs. Arnaud), but making no sound 
 whatever. She was real enough. 
 
 Mrs. Arnaud repeated, ' Why, good 
 gracious, goodness me ! ' 
 
 The beautiful little creature began nod- 
 ding her head now, and smiling instead of 
 laughing. Mrs. Arnaud found it necessary 
 to speak in spite of her delighted surprise : 
 ' Why, my love, you must be Heloise, and 
 are you dumb?' 
 
 It very soon appeared she was not ; from 
 between her pearly teeth came a babbling 
 flow of the most perfect English, with just 
 such a slight soupcon of French accent as 
 would be totally unproduceable in English 
 by a far cleverer pen than this can pretend 
 to be, and with no imitation of which shall 
 we trouble the reader. She began : —
 
 62 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' Yes, aunt,' she said, ' it is Heloise, your 
 little housekeeper and assistant. Ah ! but 
 you have my father's eyes, though, and I 
 should love you for that if for nothing else. 
 We will be happy in this pretty little parlour, 
 will we not ? ' And much more in the same 
 pleasant way, before Mrs. Arnaud could get 
 in a word at all. 
 
 'How did you get into the house, my 
 dear?' she said at last. 
 
 ' Chemin de fer du Nord, and then the 
 packet-boat, and that you will understand 
 was a sad thing ; not that I was sick, aunt, 
 but that the others were lamentably so. 
 And in my opinion, those who are sick at 
 sea should declare themselves at the custom- 
 house, and be put in a separate cabin. Well, 
 then, next the Douane, where I had nothing 
 to declare ; then the South-Eastern Eailway 
 to Victoria, and then the cab here. Then I
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 63 
 
 knocked at the door, and Madame Eaehel 
 opened it, and the cabman asked four shil- 
 lings, to which demand Madame Eaehel 
 replied in words of the most proud and con- 
 temptuous, and gave him half-a-crown. He 
 at once intimated that he should appeal to 
 the judge of instruction, and she replied that 
 he might if he liked. He then departed 
 without success. She then let me in, and 
 told me that you were busy an troisieme, 
 and I came in and set to work. You open 
 to-morrow, I understand, and I should like 
 to open well.' 
 
 ' I have no doubt that we shall do so,' 
 said Mrs. Arnaud. ' But I think that you 
 had much better go back to Paris.' 
 
 'Ah, you laugh now at me, but your 
 reason ? ' 
 
 ' You are too pretty, my love ; I am 
 sorry for it, but that is the simple fact of the
 
 64 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 case. I, when I made this bargain with my 
 brother and my mother, never bargained for 
 you.' 
 
 ' Well, then, you have made a bad bar- 
 gain, and must abide by it. Now, aunt, I 
 am certainly not going back to Paris, and so 
 the best thing we can do is to — ' she paused. 
 
 ' What now, little one ? ' said Mrs. Ar- 
 naud. 
 
 ' Look into the shop, my dear aunt. Of 
 your genius there is no doubt, but of your 
 knowledge of later details, much.' 
 
 ' We will have supper now, Heloise, and 
 see to that in the morning,' said Mrs. Ar- 
 naud. 
 
 ' It is a good proposition,' she said, and 
 they sat down to supper, Eachel waiting. 
 
 ' Is my brother well,' said Mrs. Arnaud. 
 
 ' No,' said Heloise ; ' he has the continual 
 cramps in his stomach, which he derives from
 
 N UMBER SEVENTEEN. 65 
 
 the drinking of the wine from the vineyard 
 which lie purchased of Alphonse Bourdon. 
 The doctor advises him cognac, but he in- 
 sists that the wine of his vineyard is better. 
 I wish, I am sure, he would take to cognac, 
 for no wine worth drinking is grown in the 
 north of France. He, however, sent his love 
 to you.' 
 
 ' And your grandmother ? ' 
 
 ' Well, for that, she is my grandmother, 
 and tells me that I have no taste in colours, 
 shall come to no good, and marry an English 
 paper-hanger. I say for my part, that I 
 will certainly do so if I like him, and he has 
 enough money.' 
 
 ' We must try to do better for you than 
 that, my love,' said Mrs. Arnaud. ' You 
 seem to have very good taste. Stand up.' 
 
 The little fairy did so. The jewel was 
 certainly set in a case which, to Mrs. Ar- 
 
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 66 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 naud's experienced eye was worthy of it. 
 She put her elbow on the table and her hand 
 on her forehead, and remained silent. He- 
 loise with quiet dexterity arranged the re- 
 mains of the supper together, ready to be 
 carried away, and when that was done rang 
 the bell. 
 
 Eachel appeared, and Mrs. Arnaud took 
 no notice. 
 
 ' Madame,' said Heloise : • shall I assist 
 you to carry these things downstairs ? we are 
 in a little confusion to night, as you doubt- 
 less know. I will tell you a secret, Madame 
 Eachel. Have you ever travelled?' 
 
 ' No, Miss.' 
 
 ' Then I tell you that we French are far 
 better housekeepers than you English. I 
 shall give you the benefit of my advice and 
 assistance, and if you rebel against me at 
 all I shall beat you. Let us help one
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 67 
 
 another: I will take these plates, you take 
 those.' 
 
 Rachel did as she was bid. As soon as 
 they were in the passage together, Eachel 
 said to her bluntly : 
 
 ' I would have given a thousand pounds 
 if I had it, Miss, to have you here. You will 
 do more good for my mistress than what 
 you know. You are the very person we 
 wanted to keep her out of her low fits. For 
 brave as she is, she has them still. When 
 you see one coming on, 3^011, just in your 
 pleasant way — bother that knocker, there is 
 some-one else now, we sha'nt get to bed until 
 two. Here Susan, come and open the door. 
 
 Here was the last arrival for the night. 
 Mrs. Arnaud had roused herself, and was 
 silently helping Heloise and Eachel in put- 
 ting away the things, when the door was 
 opened, there was a scuffle in the passage. 
 
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 68 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 Susan screamed, and a railway porter was 
 towed into the room by a large dog. 
 The porter finding himself apparently, as far 
 as the dog was concerned, en pays de con- 
 naissance, let go of the chain ; the dog 
 leaped on the table and new, apparently, at 
 Mrs. Arnaud's throat. She embraced him. 
 .Rachel who was counting the plate, banged 
 him violently over the tail with a tablespoon, 
 and the porter, like a man who had done 
 his duty, took off his hat and wiped his 
 fevered brow.' 
 
 ' Bran ! Bran ! ' said Mrs. Arnaud, ' why 
 it is my own Bran. And grumpy sister 
 Mary has sent him to me after all. Has 
 sister Mary sent any message with him ? ' 
 
 The porter said that lie understood from 
 the station-master that the do<? was to be 
 brought on that night at any expense. 
 Lady Mary Corby had requested that it
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 69 
 
 should be done, She, as the lady doubt- 
 less knew, was their chairman's sister ; and 
 so he had come away with it at once. 
 
 The porter was rewarded beyond his 
 utmost hopes ; Bran, a long Scotch terrier 
 was quieted, Captain D'Arcy's friend de- 
 parted, and, oh ! for the bathos, everybody 
 went to bed. 
 
 Heloise slept in her aunt's room. Mrs. 
 Arnaud thought that the girl was asleep. 
 But when she had lain down the girl said 
 to her, ' what did you say, aunt? ' 
 
 ' Nothing,' said Mrs. Arnaud. But that 
 was not exactly true. She had said to her- 
 self aloud, ' The girl is too pretty and might 
 get into mischief.' So there was peace in 
 that house for one night, at all event?.
 
 7o NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 OPENING DAY. 
 
 The morning, the most dreaded morning 
 came ; and Mrs. Arnaud woke with very 
 much the feeling; of a criminal about to be 
 hanged as soon as he had eaten a hearty 
 breakfast ; a thing which murderers under 
 sentence seem always to do. She had to 
 face tfie world once more in her old charac- 
 ter ; and that to her was worse than going 
 out of it by an easy death. She said to her- 
 self (she would never have used such a vul- 
 garism to any other human being) ' I would 
 sooner be — well — executed, than go through 
 to-day. They say that the death is so easy. 
 Yet how can they possibly know ? they have 
 none of them been executed themselves.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 71 
 
 With such feelings did Mrs. Arnaud get 
 out of bed, slip on her dressing-gown, and go 
 to the window to look into the silent street. 
 The atmosphere of London in the summer 
 mornings is very good ; even St. George's, 
 Hanover Square, looked sharp and clear ; 
 and she thought that it would not do badly 
 under the sky of Paris, though a poor build- 
 ing enough in our mid-day London smoke. 
 She opened the window to let the fresh air 
 in, so that it might awaken Heloise, and then 
 she turned to her bed : it was empty. 
 
 Not only empty but perfectly made. 
 Heloise's night-dress was lying in a pretty 
 embroidered bag, on the smoothed pillow. 
 Her peignoir was carefully folded on the chair 
 beside the dressing-table ; and as Mrs. Arnaud 
 looked round, she perceived that every thing 
 which she, Mrs. Arnaud, could possibly want, 
 had been set out and arranged for her
 
 72 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 while slie was asleep, yet it was only seven 
 o'clock. 
 
 ' Well ! ' said Mrs. Arnaud. ' If that 
 girl is as good a milliner as she is a lady's 
 maid we shall do very well. She must have 
 a foot like a fox for I never heard her. I 
 suppose I had better dress myself. I wish 
 she were not so pretty.' 
 
 She did so, but it took a long time 
 though it was only her first toilette. She 
 was beautiful and she knew it well ; but 
 she never dressed because she was beautiful, 
 but from the instinct of her life. She was 
 perfectly dressed when she left her room to 
 go downstairs, but she would no more have 
 gone beyond the street door in such a 
 costume, then she would have walked about 
 the Palais Eoyal in her dressing gown, or 
 than she would have used her magnificent 
 voice in a music-hall at Stepney. She had
 
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 no passion for dress, only an instinct, which 
 some say is only acquired at Paris, though 
 we should say that it was equally strong at 
 Metz. 
 
 Coming downstairs, however, perfectly 
 dressed, she passed into the parlour; she 
 found her breakfast ready, with the coffee 
 on the hob, and her hot roll before the fire. 
 There also she found Heloise, rather better 
 dressed than herself if it were possible, 
 sitting in her chair, with a great fold of blue 
 satin over her knees, the hem of which she 
 was turning up diligently. 
 
 ' My dear aunt,' she said, ' come here 
 and kiss me and tell me that you forgive me 
 for not waking you. I cannot serve you 
 for I should soil my hands ; but Eachel 
 and I have your breakfast ready. I have 
 been in terror over this dress, and I find 
 that you have no machine in the house.'
 
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 ' What dress is it.' 
 
 1 It is Lady Bludyer's, due to-morrow. I 
 have sent out to hire a machine, and I will 
 manage it for you.' 
 
 1 But I know nothing about it.' 
 
 1 No doubt, but it is in the order book, 
 
 which I looked over this morning, and it 
 
 must be done. There are many other 
 
 things in the order book do you see; I 
 
 can manage them all with a machine. 
 
 Your predecessor was a vastly stupid 
 
 person, but in spite of her stupidity she 
 
 had a good connection ; you and I must 
 
 keep it.' 
 
 1 You little jewel, you shall stay with 
 
 me,' said Mrs. Arnaud. 
 
 ' And indeed I mean to do so,' said the 
 busy little Heloise. 'There is one thing, 
 aunt, which I wish to know.' 
 
 ' And that?'
 
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 ' Is this little parlour of yours private ? 
 Do your lodgers come here ? ' 
 
 1 Never.' 
 
 ' Make that a rule. I am not afraid of 
 Frenchmen, but manners are different in 
 different countries, that is all.' 
 
 ' No one shall speak to you, dear.' 
 
 1 I did not mean that. I shall speak to 
 any one I choose, but always first. Re- 
 member that.' 
 
 4 Ah ! here is Madame Rachel.' 
 
 When at ten o'clock the shop windows 
 were opened, Mrs. Arnaud sat down among 
 the headless effigies in a perfectly calm 
 frame of mind. She had changed her 
 toilette, and was ready for anybody. She 
 heard the busy machine of her niece Heloise, 
 going in the back parlour, and, with that 
 brave beauty at her back, feared nothing. 
 
 For she thought that the sjirl was as brave,
 
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 as honest, and as true as she was herself, and 
 she knew also that the girl had experiences 
 of a world of which she knew nothing, the 
 world of Paris. She herself knew Leghorn, 
 Naples and Eome, but what was that ? The 
 girl's taste in colour was more bright than 
 neutral, but was every one to dress in the 
 same way ? The girl was a mine of gold to 
 her, and besides, she loved her, and intended 
 to take uncommonly good care that no one 
 else should. Little did she dream the truth. 
 
 Mrs. Arnaud sat in her shop from ten 
 o'clock until twelve, but nobody came. 
 She began to think about the bankruptcy 
 court, and went into the parlour to speak to 
 Heloise on the subject. The moment she 
 had done so, she was fetched back by the 
 footman, and began life in earnest once 
 more. 
 
 Her first customer : she remembered her
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 77 
 
 well in her mother's time, and the lady re- 
 membered her very well ; but from motives, 
 possibly, of delicacy, did not choose to say 
 so : she only said, ' I believe that you are 
 the daughter of Madame Merton, who 
 emigrated most unfortunately to Paris after 
 a sad domestic affliction some years ago. If 
 you inherit her taste you ought to do well.' 
 
 ' To mention it the first day,' thought 
 Mrs Arnaud, 'I will plague her. What 
 would Lady Sotheby desire ? ' she asked. 
 
 Lady Sotheby, a beauty, originally of 
 very low extraction, who was fifty if she 
 was a day, was now about to marry a third 
 time. The new bridegroom was a rich 
 manufacturing engineer, without any preten- 
 sions to birth, a man who had worked at the 
 bench it was said, but with infinitely more 
 pretensions to be a gentleman than ever 
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 78 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 and education were taken into account. He 
 was one of the first practical engineers in the 
 land, and an F.E.S.; and, at forty-five, he had 
 taken it into his head to propose to Lady 
 Sotheby. She had hummed and hawed over 
 the matter, and at last had referred him to 
 her last noble father-in-law, who told him 
 that he, as far as he was concerned, was per- 
 fectly willing in the matter, and told her, in 
 a private interview, that she had made a 
 splendid catch, and that he hoped she would 
 leave off her nonsense for the future, because 
 her new husband most certainly would not 
 stand it. 
 
 Lady Sotheby at first seemed to want 
 everything in the shop, but she settled down 
 at last to a purple satin gown, and a powder 
 blue {Chasseur cTAfrique) cloak, both to 
 be made up at once and sent home. She 
 then asked what were the fashionable
 
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 colours for a bride on her wedding 
 tour. 
 
 Mrs. Arnaud's irritation against her 
 found its vent at last. She said : — 
 
 * For a lady who is going to be married 
 for the third time, within three months of 
 her own mother's death, slight mourning is 
 the most fashionable, my lady.' 
 
 The old Elizabethan expression of one 
 person ' looking daggers ' at another is of no 
 use to us at all. Lady Sotheby looked 
 cobras and rattlesnakes. . If she could have 
 bitten Mrs. Arnaud and have given her the 
 hydrophobia she would have done it. But 
 the good millionaire had heard nothing, so 
 she only said, ' You will be pleased to send 
 the dress and the cloak by to-morrow.' 
 
 ' I beg your ladyship's pardon,' said Mrs. 
 Arnaud : ' Do you mean to wear them to- 
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 4 Certainly,' said Lady Sotlieby. 
 
 ' Then,' said Mrs. Arnaud, ' I am sorry 
 to say that I cannot supply you. If you 
 went into the streets such a figure, and the 
 iniquity of it was traced home to me, I 
 should lose the confidence of my customers, 
 and might as well shut up my shop.' 
 
 Lady Sotheby said, ' Woman ! ' 
 
 ' Yes, my lady. I think we understand 
 one another, but to be fair and frank with 
 you, I am not afraid of you at all. I neither 
 want your good word nor your custom.' 
 
 On the dignified departure of that lady, 
 she went back to Heloise. ' Brave aunt,' she 
 said, ' I heard every word. Is he rich ? will 
 he pay the money she owes grandmamma in 
 Paris ? ' 
 
 'Never name it, child, never make mis- 
 chief between man and wife. Here is 
 another customer.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 8 1 
 
 ' I will undertake this one,' said Heloise, 
 going quietly into the shop. The footman 
 whispered to her, ' Lord and Lady Morning- 
 side.' 
 
 The old Scotch judge had seated himself, 
 and Lady Morningside was wandering about 
 among the fine things. My Lord, very old 
 and short of breath, looked at Heloise as she 
 curtsied to him ; he said not one word, but 
 called to Lady Morningside to come and 
 look. She did so, and he remarked : 
 ' That is the most beautiful creature I have 
 ever seen in my life. She is the very 
 image of what you were when I married 
 you.' 
 
 Heloise heard him, and said to herself, 
 ' Ah, I have heard that once or twice before. 
 But now to business, my good people : her 
 ladyship was never any more like me than I 
 shall be like her. I shall never have a nose 
 
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 82 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 like a tapir, and a mouth like a hippo- 
 potamus.' 
 
 She fancied herself very witty to have 
 thought that ; she made up her mind to tell 
 it to her aunt and make her laugh, but our 
 little miss got a lesson which she did not 
 fonret. 
 
 ' My dear,' said Lady Morningside, ' I 
 want a cap.' 
 
 'Shall I assist your ladyship to take 
 your bonnet off?' 
 
 4 Xo, I will do that myself, I think,' said 
 the old lady : ' If you were to take off my 
 bonnet you might take off my wig too, and 
 then a pretty spectacle I should look without 
 a hair on my head.' 
 
 ' I should never have guessed it, ma- 
 dame,' said Heloise. 
 
 4 Ycu must be pretty young at your busi- 
 ness then, my child,' said the old lady, ' or
 
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 you would know false hair from real. My 
 own hair was as good as yours once. What 
 pretty teeth you have.' 
 
 Heloise could not help smiling. Not to 
 show them — of course not, 
 
 ' Ah ! I could smile once,' said the old 
 lady, ' now I can only grin ; but my teeth 
 are as pretty as yours. They are artificial, 
 my dear, and cost thirty guineas. You will 
 be a worse spectacle than I am if you live, 
 for there are no women like Ninon l'Enclos 
 left among the French. See that you get a 
 husband who will love you to the end, as 
 mine does.' 
 
 ' How am I to select him, madarne ? ' 
 said Heloise. 
 
 ' God will select him for you. Do your 
 duty by him, and when you are seventy you 
 will be as happy as I am now. Once get a 
 good man, and he will be exactly, as far 
 
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 84 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 as you are concerned, what you make 
 him.' 
 
 Heloise had nothing to say, but she 
 thought of these things afterwards. Lord 
 Morningside, who had not been in London 
 for some years, seemed inclined to decorate 
 this rather hideous old lady as though she 
 had been a bride. Though he would have 
 died on the block sooner than confess it, he 
 had a distrust of all Scotch millinery and 
 jewellery as being provincial. Abusing and 
 pretending to hate London, he nevertheless 
 determined that Lady Morningside should re- 
 turn to Edinburgh in garments which should 
 raise envy in the county families, among 
 whom he, as a mere law lord, risen from the 
 ranks, and his wife, who had, it was said, 
 been a shepherdess, were merely admitted 
 by courtesy. Yet, the strange, childless old 
 couple were well known, and profoundly
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 85 
 
 respected. She, in Edinburgh, as one of the 
 most charitable and excellent of women : 
 he, in London, as the shrewdest of Scottisli 
 lawyers. Mrs. Arnaud could have had no 
 better advertisement than the good will of 
 the grand old man. 
 
 Nor, indeed, did she suffer in a pecu- 
 niary point of view, as she found when she 
 joined the party. Lady Morningside was 
 buying everything she could lay her hands 
 on, and what is more, exercising very great 
 good taste. The Scotch women have, on 
 the whole, better taste in dress than the 
 English, though it takes a French woman to 
 wear tartan to perfection. Mrs. Arnaud 
 found no fault with Lady Morningside's 
 arrangements, save in slight details, which 
 that lady altered at once by her advice. 
 Finally, Lord and Lady Morningside got 
 the footman to fetch a four-wheeled cab, and
 
 86 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 went away in it, leaving Mrs. Arnaud richer 
 by 116/. 
 
 ' Now,' said Heloise as they sat down to 
 table : ' we will have dinner. If other cus- 
 tomers come, Eachel shall serve them, and 
 put on their things upside down. That we 
 shall make our fortunes is quite undoubted. 
 But she is an old skeleton who has come out 
 of the cupboard.' 
 
 ' Who ? ' 
 
 ' Why, Lady Morningside,' said Heloise. 
 ' She said that I should be just as terrible a 
 figure as she is when I am her age. But 
 she said, moreover, that I must choose my 
 husband by chance, and form him afterwards. 
 I would not take the trouble. Aunt, what is 
 the use of having a husband at all? that is 
 what I am unable to discover. If you loved 
 a man I can understand that you undertook 
 his sorrows and your own together, until the
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 87 
 
 day of judgment. But a mere husband, 
 Bah ! a man you have never seen half-a- 
 dozen times, and who may be disagreeable, 
 and spend all your money. I cannot see 
 why women who can earn their own living 
 should marry.' 
 
 ' You do not like men then, my little 
 niece,' said Mrs. Arnaud. 
 
 ' On the contrary I adore men, but I do 
 not want them to marry me.' 
 
 ' You mean that you have never seen a 
 man you cared to marry.' 
 
 'No.' 
 
 ' Have you had any lovers ? ' 
 
 1 Two. They, however, were lovers sent 
 by the family, and came with bouquets and 
 new gloves. I soon disposed of them. 
 They came smirking as though the affair 
 was settled. One, a sensible fellow, took 
 his answer and went away ; the other per-
 
 88 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 sisted after I had given my answer. The 
 Burgundy blood which is in me came out. 
 I arose in my fury — I was at work — and 
 told him that if he did not leave the room, 
 I would stab him to his false heart with my 
 needle. He was frightened, this one, and 
 departed like the other. Save these I have 
 
 had no lovers See, we have a soldier 
 
 in the room.' 
 
 She actually sat before Mrs. Arnaud and 
 uttered all this without change of counte- 
 nance, looking Mrs. Arnaud straight in the 
 face. She surely should have hailed from 
 Gascony, not from Burgundy. 
 
 ' 1 beg your pardon, Mrs. Arnaud,' said a 
 very quiet voice, 'but I am on duty this 
 afternoon and I should be exceedingly 
 obliged S. you would — I think I see 
 Mademoiselle Heloise, whom I knew in 
 Paris.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 89 
 
 * Surely,' she said, rising. ' Why it is 
 M. D'Arcy, my old confidant. And how- 
 goes the ? ' 
 
 He shook his head laughing, and 
 addressed Mrs. Arnaud. He was a well- 
 looking young man at all times, and looked 
 all the better in his uniform. He was 
 certainly very attractive, and Mrs. Arnaud 
 might have wished him less so, but she 
 remembered what she had seen upstairs, 
 and did not mind. He was engaged. 
 
 ' I am pleased to renew my acquaintance 
 with the young lady. I hope I shall be 
 allowed to pay my respects to her some- 
 times. I will take my leave.' 
 
 They had a busy afternoon ; her pre- 
 decessor's customers seemed to rally round 
 her very well, and it was evident that she 
 and Heloise were in possession of a hand- 
 some income, and so ended the first day,
 
 90 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 Heloise being more cheerful in the evening 
 than she had been in the morning, if possible, 
 and continually wondering why women were 
 ever so silly as to marry. 
 
 ' You will be married within a year, my 
 fawn,' said Mrs. Arnaud, as they went up- 
 stairs. 
 
 ' That is quite unlikely,' replied Heloise, 
 looking sharply at her aunt from the 
 shadow.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 91 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 JAMES AND GEORGE DRUMMOND. 
 
 When Drummond, the lawyer, told Mrs. 
 Arnaud that he disliked to see George 
 Drummond because he reminded him of his 
 mother, he told a falsehood. He was 
 greatly attached to the young man. No 
 father ever loved a son better or did more 
 for a son. Lord Festiniog often noticed it 
 to Lord Ehyader, and thought it very much 
 to Drummond's credit, for, to tell the truth, 
 Drummond had made a hopelessly bad 
 match, and Mrs. Drummond, long before 
 her death, was settled out of his house by a 
 monetary arrangement. With her we
 
 92 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 have nothing whatever to do. She was 
 dead, and Drummond, a comparatively 
 young man, was free to marry whom he 
 liked, provided that the lady was of the 
 same mind as himself. 
 
 The day after Mrs. Arnaud's new entry 
 into the world, he had asked George to dine 
 with him, and George and he were sitting 
 together over their wine in a small but very 
 expensive house in Park Lane. 
 
 ' Well, and have you seen your landlady 
 yet, George ? ' said Drummond, passing the 
 decanter, ' and if so, what do you think of 
 her ? ' 
 
 ' I think her a magnificent woman ; I was 
 very much taken with her. I tell you every- 
 thing, you know, father, and so I tell you 
 this. I saw her under very peculiar circum- 
 stances. Ehyader came to her the first night 
 she was in the house, and terrified her.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 93 
 
 ' All, I daresay she would be frightened 
 at seeing him for the first time under the 
 circumstances.' 
 
 ' And what were they ? ' 
 
 ' Well, I will tell you,' said Drummond. 
 ' She has, after many years, found out that 
 she was really married to Ehyader's brother, 
 Iltyd, and she insists that my lord should 
 recognise the fact. They have had a most 
 tremendous fight over it. She told him that 
 she would shame him into acknowledgment 
 by writing " The Honourable Mrs. Arnaud " 
 over her shop door. Has she done so ? ' 
 
 ' I don't fancy she has, but I was never 
 aware of the fact that you knew her. You 
 astonish me completely,' said George Drum- 
 mond. ' There is " Mrs. Arnaud " in very 
 large letters, but there are undecipherable 
 words on each side. So she may have done 
 
 so.'
 
 94 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' Clever woman, I daresay if you look 
 closer you will find that she has.' 
 
 ' But will Lord Festiniog acknowledge 
 her?' 
 
 ' I don't know. After fighting the wo- 
 man single-handed, he came to me for assist- 
 ance, and asked me, as his legal adviser, 
 whether she had any claim. I looked into 
 the matter, and told him that he had not a leg 
 to stand on, and that she was his son's wife. 
 Then he got into a huff, and said he should 
 have counsel's opinion. But all the counsel 
 in the world will make her nothing but his 
 son's wife. I told him that as she had no 
 children, the acknowledgment of her could 
 do him no harm, and proposed to him to 
 offer her a sum of money to keep her 
 counsel. Even he laughed at the idea of 
 such a thing, and so the matter stands to 
 this hour.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 95 
 
 'Who was Mrs. Arnaud, father?' 
 
 '1 
 
 ' Marie or Mary Merton. Her father 
 was an Englishman, her mother the queen 
 of French modistes in England. When her 
 daughter went off from Bond Street with 
 young Iltyd Arnaud she migrated to Paris, 
 and refused to see or hear of her daughter ; 
 but now Mrs. Arnaud has proved her mar- 
 riage, they are the best friends in the world, 
 again, I believe. I saw her in Paris only a 
 fortnight ago. She is sending over a niece 
 of Mrs. Arnaud's, a favourite grand-daughter 
 of hers, to assist her in the business. Have 
 you seen her?' 
 
 * No, I am not in the least degree likely 
 to see her.' 
 
 8 Well, that is lucky for your heart at all 
 events. She is the most beautiful creature 
 ever saw.'
 
 96 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' Then my fellow lodger, D'Arcy, should 
 see her, and console himself.' 
 
 ' I know what you are going to say. 
 Poor spoony, that is all over with him. I 
 can tell you that he has got his conge? 
 
 1 From her father ? ' 
 
 ' Yes, and from the whole lot of them. 
 The family would not have stood such a 
 thing for a moment. He can't keep her as 
 she would expect. She will be much 
 happier without him ; I daresay he won't 
 mind ; he will be free again, and if he makes 
 much acquaintance with Mademoiselle He- 
 loise, he will be a dangerous rival.' 
 
 'To whom?' 
 
 ' To yourself.' 
 
 ' But I don't want to have anything to 
 do with the girl.' 
 
 'Well, you may be deficient in good 
 taste, of course.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 97 
 
 ' But I could not marry a French mil- 
 liner.' 
 
 ' Why not, if you asked her ? You are 
 only an attorney's son. I can tell you from 
 what I have heard of the young lady, that I 
 should not object.' 
 
 'Ah, you are having your joke, sir; I 
 thought I was to be a gentleman.' 
 
 ' And so you are, though mind, I will 
 not have you an idle one ; you stick to your 
 desk, it won't give you much money, my 
 boy, you must come to me for that, but it 
 will give you position ; you will rise in that 
 service with your talents and industry, far 
 higher than you could in my business. Do 
 you want any mouey, George ? ' 
 
 ' No, father, I can lend you ten pounds if 
 you like. Why should I want money? You 
 give me my horse and my clothes, and keep 
 me like a gentleman ; you have done every- 
 
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 thing which could be done for me. I wish 
 that I could go back to the university, and 
 get a better degree than I did, to show my 
 gratitude, but that is too late.' 
 
 ' I am perfectly satisfied, George, your 
 degree was good enough. If I had meant 
 you to take a better degree I should have 
 sent you to another college. You held your 
 own bravely, and I am proud of you.' 
 
 George reached over his hand, and the 
 other took it silently. Mr. Drummond's 
 hand shook, and his face was disturbed by 
 some strong emotion. The conversation 
 changed, and not long afterwards they 
 parted.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEX. 99 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 PESTINIOG AND RHYADER. 
 
 Mrs. Arnaud's dreadful threat of writing up 
 ' the Honourable Mrs. Arnaud,' over her 
 shop, had actually been fulfilled. But it had 
 been done in a way which left a compromise 
 possible. Two little flourishes on the left 
 contained the dreadful words, those words 
 of fate, ' the honourable ; ' but no one could 
 read them ; while on the right were two 
 other little flourishes also illegible, contain- 
 ing the words ' milliner and dressmaker.' 
 Between those two scrolls came the great 
 golden legend, ' MES. AEXAUD.' And so
 
 ioo NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 no one, unless they had taken an opera 
 glass, was one whit the wiser. 
 
 With the exception of Lord Bhyader. 
 After his interview with Mrs. Arnaud he had 
 reconnoitred the premises, and had seen that 
 she had really done as she threatened. He 
 departed and told his father. They laid 
 their heads together, and agreed that it 
 would not do to trifle with her.' 
 
 ' And it would not be right to trifle with 
 her either,' said Lord Bhyader, 'now that 
 we know all that we do.' 
 
 ' Why, no ! ' said Lord Festiniog. ' As 
 Ion 2; as I was in doubt I did not care. But 
 there is no doubt any longer now. She is 
 your sister-in-law, and her marriage was 
 perfectly legal. It would be most ungentle- 
 manly, and also most impolitic to dispute it. 
 I suppose she will marry Drummond.' 
 
 ' I don't think so. Still she might, We
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. ioi 
 
 can, however, not dispute the fact of her 
 having been married.' 
 
 ' Now, Hhyader, will yon explain to me 
 this ? Drummond must surely have known 
 of the circumstances, for he was often with 
 her abroad. Why did he conceal them 
 from me? I appealed to him about the 
 matter, and he at once gave it against 
 me. I dont clearly make that out.' 
 
 ' Nor I either,' said Lord Rhyader. ' If 
 I were to say that I distrusted Drummond, I 
 should lie : if I said that I trusted him, I 
 should also lie. He loved her once, you 
 know : that explains much. He is a 
 lawyer : that explains more. lie evidently 
 could have known the thing had he chosen, 
 but did not choose until you appealed to him 
 to do his duty by you. I don't profess to 
 understand a man like Drummond. If you 
 had had a drunken wife, sir, you might have
 
 io2 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 had a craze or so in your brain. Have you 
 any fault to find with him, further than this 
 concealment, if concealment it be ? ' 
 
 ' None. Money grows under his hands ; 
 
 I have really nothing to do but to sign my 
 
 name. And, besides, he must be very rich.' 
 
 ' You had better let him marry Mary, 
 
 sir,' said Lord Ehyader. 
 
 ' The Honourable Mrs. Drummond,' said 
 Lord Festiniog. ' I should not care. But 
 she would not have him.' 
 ' Indeed, I think so.' 
 ' However,' said Lord Festiniog, ' you 
 agree with me that this squabble with Mary 
 ought to be patched up. You had better 
 leave the how to me.' 
 
 ' Oli yes, sir. She is such a dear 
 creature and such a noble creature, that 
 now, when we know all, or think we do, we 
 should not continue it. Besides, in doing so,
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 103 
 
 we redeem poor Iltyd's memory so entirely. 
 I pray you to do it.' 
 
 ' It shall be done, Gervase : it shall be 
 done. Say no more.' 
 
 'You won't show any distrust to Drum- 
 mond, father, will you ? ' said Lord Rhy- 
 
 ader. 
 
 ' Distrust Drummond, bless my heart, 
 
 no. I will not distrust him at all, at least, 
 in money matters. Yet he did an un- 
 principled thing once : he made love to Mary 
 when he was a married man : that was 
 utterly ill ; but he was mad then, and it was 
 very long ago. Have you seen his son 
 lately?' 
 
 ' That prig ? yes I often see him.' 
 ' What is he growing to be like ? does he 
 take after his father ? I like what I have 
 seen of him.' 
 
 ' I do not particularly. George Drum-
 
 104 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 mond is one of nry pet horrors. Eugby, 
 with a finish off of Brazenose, and a post 
 pleiocene crust of Home office.' 
 
 'Cad?' 
 
 'Why no, worse than that. You may 
 lick a cad into shape, but George Brummond 
 has licked himself into shape, and a most ob- 
 jectionable shape it is.' 
 
 ' I'll see more of him,' said Lord Festi- 
 niog. ' I fancy from your description that 
 I should like him very much indeed. By- 
 the-bye, that cub of yours has never been 
 near me for two days, and his mother not 
 for four. If they are going to cut me alto- 
 gether, let me know it.' 
 
 'Oh, I should have told you. Alice and 
 George have run down to Kichmond for a 
 few days.' 
 
 ' I will follow them as soon as I have 
 done with Mary. I shan't be long with you,
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 105 
 
 Gervase, and then you will have all. Let 
 me see the boy as much as I can.' 
 
 ' I am afraid that Barri loves you better 
 than he does me, sir,' said Gervase.
 
 io6 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 LORD FESTINIOG AND MRS. ARNAUD. 
 
 Some days had passed of Mrs. Arnaud's new 
 life. Even in that short time business had 
 accumulated most rapidly. People had seen 
 her and Heloise, and had told other people 
 about them. Lord and Lady Morningside 
 had sounded the first trumpet about them 
 with no uncertain sound, and when a 
 trumpet is sounded at the beginning of the 
 season, it is generally attended to. There 
 was a general assembly over these two 
 splendid women, and the world rushed to 
 see them. Had anything been wanted to 
 add to their popularity, it was the fact that
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 107 
 
 Lady Sotlieby steadily abused them, and 
 said that Mrs. Arnaud bad been grossly im- 
 pertinent to her. As she was always imper- 
 tinent to that part of the world to which she 
 was admitted, this was a further recommen- 
 dation, and so Mrs. Arnaud found her hands 
 full. 
 
 'Lady Dry cough, who delighted in all 
 the innocent wickedness of this world, once 
 examined Heloise as to what Mrs. Arnaud 
 had said to Lady Sotlieby. Heloise said 
 that she was not sure, but that she believed 
 that her aunt had said that she was not there 
 to dress up Guy Fawkes. This being re- 
 peated with emendations, did them vast 
 good, for insulting the common enemy is a 
 more popular thing in a certain world than 
 assisting the common friend. 
 
 On the afternoon of the third day Mrs. 
 Arnaud and Heloise had been extremely
 
 108 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 bus) T . Affairs had increased on them so far 
 that Mrs. Arnaud had written to Paris for 
 Heloise's sister, Clotilde. Mrs. Arnaud felt 
 perfectly faint with the work, and asking 
 Heloise to stand in the breach for a quarter 
 of an hour, said that she would go into her 
 back parlour, and sit down in her chair. 
 
 Her chair ; her own sacred chair, was 
 turned with its back towards the door, and 
 in it was a square dogmatic head, covered 
 with short white hair, the top and rear of 
 which was only visible. The head was 
 reading her illustrated Wordsworth, and the 
 hands which belonged to it were long, thin, 
 and old, and the right hand was covered 
 with diamonds. 
 
 ' Is that you, Mary ?' said the head with- 
 out moving. 
 
 ' Yes, my lord.' 
 
 ' Yes, fiddle.' Come and sit down
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 109 
 
 somewhere. I want to talk to yon. Sit 
 down somewhere where I cannot see you. 
 Have yon sat down ? ' 
 
 ' Yes, Lord Festiniog.' 
 
 ' Good Mary. I have been entirely in 
 the wrong in the matter in dispute between 
 us. I have asked Drummond about it, and 
 he says that yon are in the right. I ac- 
 knowledge you, entirely, as my poor son 
 IltycVs wife, and your patience, and your 
 virtues under your wrongs, have entirely 
 endeared yon to me. If you had any 
 children living I might have been more 
 eager to dispute your claim to be my 
 daughter-in-law, but it would have been no 
 use. I sec that your marriage was legal in 
 every way, and I rejoice that the cloud is 
 removed from the memory of my son, who 
 was dear to me, with all his faults. Do you 
 desire anything more? '
 
 no NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' What more can I desire ? I only wish 
 that our old relations should be renewed, and 
 that I may see Lady Rhyader and the boy 
 again. Pity my childless condition, and let 
 him come to me sometimes.' 
 
 ' He shall come to you as often as you 
 choose, though, faith, I am speaking for 
 Ehyader rather freely. But he will not 
 object, and you need not fear Alice. Don't 
 spoil the boy, you know, for he is the only 
 hope of the house.' 
 
 ' I will take care of him,' said Mrs. 
 Arnaud, bending over and kissing Lord 
 Festiniog's forehead. 'Now, good papa, 
 would you like to see my niece Heloise ? ' 
 
 ' Very much indeed. I hear she is the 
 most beautiful creature in London.' 
 
 Much as he had heard of her, however, 
 in a, few days, the reality surpassed his ex- 
 pectation ; he had a short conversation with
 
 Nl r MBER SE VENTEEN. 1 1 1 
 
 her, unci, as he rose to go, lie said to himself, 
 1 Master George Driimmond had better look 
 after his heart in that quarter;' but in the 
 hall he met D'Arcy and put a rider to his 
 opinion, ' unless she takes a fancy to that 
 spark, indeed, which is quite probable ; he 
 seems as though he lodged in the house, for 
 he came in with the latch-key. Mary has 
 been a fool to have such a girl as that in the 
 house, with young men for lodgers ; she will 
 have a murder about her ; and now that I 
 have privately acknowledged Mary as a dress- 
 maker, we shall be still more distinguished. 
 I will go back and have another talk to her.' 
 
 This time he went right into the shop 
 and beckoned her to follow him into the 
 parlour. She did so at once, to the surprise 
 of the one customer who was there, and to 
 the astonishment of the footman. 
 
 ' Mary,' he said, ' I have forgotten one
 
 H2 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 or two things. Our reconciliation need not 
 be exactly public, I suppose, but I think that 
 Ehyader and I had better have a paper 
 drawn up by Drummond, saying that we 
 are fully satisfied on the subject of Iltyd's 
 honour and your own.' 
 
 ' I don't want Drummond in it at all, my 
 lord,' she said. ' Gervase and you could do 
 it perfectly. I don't want to be thrown 
 against Mr. Drummond: he is — 
 
 She was as near as possible saying, ' He 
 has for his own purposes, I believe, done me 
 a great service ; but he has been utterly 
 false to you,' when she made this awkward 
 pause. 
 
 ' He is what ? ' said Lord Festiniog, not 
 helping her in the least. 
 
 ' He is,' said Mrs. Arnaud, looking 
 steadily at him, ' attached to me.' 
 
 She expected an outburst of anger, but
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 113 
 
 none came, to her surprise. He said, ' I 
 suspected that long ago, but he would never 
 do for you, would he? not to be thought of? ' 
 
 ' Can you who knew your son Iltyd ask 
 me such a question ? ' 
 
 ' Why, only with the idea of getting one 
 answer,' he said, good naturedly. ' I say, 
 to change the subject, you will have trouble 
 with that niece of yours, the young men will 
 be cutting one another's heads off about her.' 
 
 ' She can take care of herself,' said Mrs. 
 Arnaud : which Mademoiselle Heloise cer- 
 tainly could do, though not exactly in the 
 way Mrs. Arnaud meant. 
 
 ' Ah ! but can the young men take care 
 of themselves ? ' he replied. ' I never could, I 
 know. By the bye, Mary, put a dab of 
 black paint on the left of your signboard 
 will you, unless — ' 
 
 ' Unless what ? ' 
 
 VOL. I. I
 
 H4 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 1 Well, I was going to write it, but I will 
 speak it — Unless you choose to have ten 
 thousand pounds settled on you; to make 
 over your business to your niece ; and to 
 retire comfortably.' 
 
 ' Xo. You are most kind and generous. 
 You always were, save for a short time, but 
 my answer will be now, always, no. A few 
 days have shown me that I want employment, 
 and I shall be happy here. Our secret is 
 entirely our own ; as for the small matter 
 which, to spite you, I wrote up, it was done 
 so artistically that I doubt if the painter 
 could read it. No, Lord Festiniog, leave 
 me to be happy in my own way, but let the 
 boy come to me. I wish to see the boy 
 sometimes. It is not much to ask. Send 
 Barri.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN n 
 
 CHAPTEK XL 
 
 MADAME. 
 
 ' I suppose, aunt Arnaud, that you Lave heard 
 from my sister Clotilde,' said Heloise within 
 a week of the last conversation. 
 
 ' Well, my dear, I have. I heard yester- 
 day.' 
 
 'Then she is coining at once, I sup- 
 pose.' 
 
 'Why, no; I do not think that she is 
 coming at all. I am afraid, my dear, that 
 your grandmother is coming instead.' 
 
 ' Le ban Dieune le per — ' Heloise had 
 got as far as that, when she was stopped by 
 a look from Mrs. Arnaud, so she never said, 
 
 i 2
 
 n6 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' mettra jamais ;' which was what she meant 
 to say. Mrs. Arnaud rode the high English 
 horse over her at once. 
 
 ' Family circumstances,' said Mrs. Ar- 
 naud, solemnly, ' have for certain reasons 
 brought about a coolness between my 
 mother and myself. Those circumstances 
 and reasons are now removed. I shall wel- 
 come my mother as a daughter should.' 
 
 ' But, grandmamma,' said Heloise, look- 
 ing as cross as she could, and shrugging her 
 shoulders. 
 
 ' She is your grandmother, my dear, and 
 my mother ; you should remember that.' 
 
 i I am not likely to forget it, aunt. I 
 came here to escape from her, and now she 
 is coming after me. I thought that we were 
 
 o 
 
 going to be so comfortable.' 
 
 ' My child,' said Mrs. Arnaud, have you 
 earned comfort ? What have you ever done
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 117 
 
 •which should give you the right of avoiding 
 your grandmother ? ' 
 
 ' Well, if you come to that, aunt, what 
 have you done which should give you the 
 right of avoiding your grandmother ? ' 
 
 'My grandmother is in Heaven,' said 
 Mrs. Arnaud. 
 
 ' I wish mine was,' said Heloise. 
 
 ' Child, you talk nonsense ! Child, you 
 are a fool ! Your grandmother is worth ten 
 of you or me. She has strong political 
 opinions, and is of the old fashion ; but 
 there are very few women in Europe like 
 her.' 
 
 ' Very well, aunt,' said Heloise : ' I will 
 submit, I never did anything else. How 
 long is it since you saw her?' 
 
 ' Twenty-two years. I informed her that 
 I had made a certain discovery. She most 
 generously believed me, without waiting for
 
 u8 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 further proofs, and extended to me her full 
 forgiveness.' 
 
 ' You won't stand her,' said Heloise, ' I can 
 tell you that I will be all obedience, but 
 it is hard that a poor girl like myself should 
 find no protection in Europe. However,' 
 she added to herself, ' the remedy is always 
 in my own hands.' 
 
 A great friendship had arisen in this 
 short time between Heloise and her aunt's 
 ill-tempered maid, Eachel. Friendships of 
 this kind are made up of similarities and 
 contrasts. But, Victor Hugo apart, an old, 
 cross, and ugly woman may have a strong 
 friendship for a very young, well-tempered, 
 and beautiful woman, if they have anything 
 in common. Eachel was old, ugly, and 
 cross ; Heloise was young, beautiful, and 
 very amiable. Eachel had, at the first, been 
 strongly opposed to the introduction of
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 119 
 
 Heloise into the house, yet, now, she would 
 have deserted her mistress to serve her. 
 They had a point d'apjiui, these two. Rachel 
 very quickly discovered, Suffolk woman as 
 she was, that the French girl, Heloise, was a 
 better housekeeper than she was herself. 
 Heloise had never asserted herself in the 
 kitchen, but when she had seen Rachel hold- 
 ing up her eyes over the iniquities and waste- 
 fulness of the London servants, she had an- 
 swered with her eyes. 
 
 These demonstrations brought about, 
 first, consultation, then, confidence. Heloise 
 showed Rachel twenty things in French do- 
 mestic economy which she never knew 
 before, and Rachel was almost converted to 
 the idea that the French were not idiots. 
 Heloise was half English, however, and so, 
 without withdrawing her allegiance to the 
 British throne, Rachel was able to believe in
 
 120 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 Heloise as the most charming person, next 
 to the Princess of Wales. After this an- 
 nouncement of the coming of Mrs. Arnand's 
 mother, they had a slight confidence in the 
 kitchen. 
 
 'My grandmamma is coming, Eachel/ 
 said Heloise, and there is no more rest for us 
 this side of the Grave.' 
 
 ' That will be worse for you than for me, 
 Miss ; will it not ? What sort of a lady is 
 she?' 
 
 ' Ilein, I do not know. At least, I can- 
 not say. She is different with different 
 people. She is not kind to me, but to my 
 Bister most kind. She loves money, and in 
 my opinion comes here — ' 
 
 Suddenly Heloise remembered that she 
 was talking to a servant, and left off. In 
 France things were different, she argued ; in 
 England no one talked with servants.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 121 
 
 Rachel wished to continue the conversation, 
 but Heloisc was inexorable. Rachel, how- 
 ever, had heard as much as she chose to hear, 
 and she was strongly prejudiced against 
 Madame Mantalent, before she ever came 
 into the house. 
 
 But the old lady arrived before affairs 
 had in any way settled down, and before 
 Mrs. Arnaud quite knew what she was 
 about. Business was coming in in the most 
 remarkable manner. Heloise and Mrs. Ar- 
 naud had not an hour to themselves. The 
 receipts were enormous, so large, in fact, 
 that Mrs. Arnaud was at her wits end to 
 supply stock. She was in an embarras des 
 r/'chesses. She must borrow some money 
 soon, for she had spent all her own, and 
 though people bought, it was on credit. 
 Should she borrow of Lord Festiniog ? that 
 she did not wish to do. Drummond would
 
 122 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 let her have any money she wanted, but 
 that would not do by any means. Within a 
 fortnight, she saw that she must expend 
 more money in replenishing stock, and at 
 the end of that time her mamma arrived 
 from Paris, and relieved the garrison, not 
 only with money, which might have been 
 got elsewhere, but with taste and experience, 
 which could have been got nowhere. 
 
 Nevertheless, Mrs. Arnaud's freedom, 
 and that of Heloise, was gone once more. 
 Madame was in her way a harder task- 
 master than she had ever had before. At 
 once, Each el and Heloise had entered into a 
 Holy Alliance against her, and Mrs. Arnaud, 
 as an English woman, preserved an armed 
 neutrality. She was amused to see the ex- 
 traordinary confidence which was growing up 
 between Heloise and Rachel : it was doubt- 
 less due to their hatred of the common 
 enemy.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 123 
 
 AY] icii si 10 first came, Rachel was ex- 
 tremely astonished at Ilcloise's account of 
 her, for she seemed a very agreeable old 
 lady, who was most affectionately attentive 
 to Mrs. Arnaud and most courteous to her- 
 self. But Eacliel soon found out what was 
 the matter with her, and groaned in spirit. 
 It ts difficult to explain why she drove every 
 one mad, but we must endeavour to do 
 so. 
 
 In the first place, she never stopped talk- 
 ing, which might have been got over, 
 but then she never talked about anything in 
 any way agreeable, or had a solitary good 
 word for any one : she and her family were 
 the most important people in the universe, 
 and the world seemed to her to be in a com- 
 bination against them. Then she would 
 have everything explained to her at full 
 length, of whatever nature it might be, and 
 never by any chance allowed that any one
 
 124 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 had done right. If the most trifling thing 
 went wrong, it was because she had not been 
 consulted about it : prove her wrong in any 
 one thing and she would speak a quarter of 
 an hour afterwards, exactly as if she was in 
 the right. She was a prodigiously good 
 housekeeper, and although she took none of 
 the responsibility of the housekeeping herself, 
 she never ceased talking about it to her 
 daughter. 
 
 There she was, however, sitting in Mrs. 
 Arnaud's easy chair and talking without 
 ceasing on details of all kinds : about herself, 
 about Mrs. Arnaud's relation with the late 
 Iltyd, about the money she had lent her 
 daughter (she never left that subject alone 
 for above a quarter of an hour together), 
 about the servants, about every kind of 
 minute detail in the house. Always giving 
 advice, offended when it was not taken, re-
 
 NUMBER S EVENT E EX. 125 
 
 turning to the charge until it was, and then 
 turning on her daughter for a poor, silly, dear 
 thing, if the matter went wrong. There she 
 was, an old woman of the sea, with but one 
 fact about her which gave any hope of escape 
 from her, and that was her rheumatism. 
 
 It was after she had been there half ot 
 one day that this great fact about her was 
 discovered. Heloise remembered it first, 
 and, with her brilliant genius, saw hope. 
 
 Madame on the very first day shewed 
 the weak point in her armour, and as we 
 said before, Heloise, knowing her well, had 
 hope. Madame was partly agreeable on the 
 first day, but Heloise knew that she could 
 be so, for her own purposes, after dinner, but 
 knowing what would with ordinary luck 
 occur, she said nothing, until Madame, who 
 had been talking at her best, desired to go 
 to bed, and asked where she was to sleep.
 
 126 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 'You sleep at the top of the house, 
 grandmamma,' said Heloise, promptly. ' I 
 shall sleep in the same room now — I have 
 moved up — a very nice one. You must be 
 tired, shall I take you to bed ? ' 
 
 ' At the top of the house,' said Madame, 
 aghast. ' My dear Heloise, you know as 
 well as I do, that I cannot walk up stairs.' 
 
 ' I do not know what is to be done, then, 
 grandmamma : unless you take aunt Ar- 
 naud's bed, and she sleeps in yours ; that is 
 to say, in the same room with myself.' 
 
 ' I suppose that there is nothing else to 
 be done,' said Madame. ' It is hard on a 
 woman of my age, but I have always sacri- 
 ficed myself to my children. I will sleep 
 down stairs.' 
 
 The arrangement was most promptly 
 made ; Mrs. Arnaud and Heloise departed 
 upstairs, leaving the old lady in full posses- 
 sion of the back parlour and the bedroom
 
 X UMBER SEVENTEEN. 127 
 
 adjoining. The Emperor of Russia cal- 
 culated the effect of cold on the French 
 Army, but he had a long time to think 
 about it. Heloise had but little time to 
 think about her grandmamma's rheumatism, 
 yet she utilized it in the most dexterous 
 manner. She and her aunt were free at the 
 top of the house, where no grandmamma 
 could reach them. 
 
 Was it for better or for w T orse that that 
 cunning old French woman was isolated in 
 the lower part of the house with Rachel ? 
 That is a question which will answer itself. 
 
 To go on with our narrative. The 
 coming of the old French woman sent 
 Heloise and Mrs. Arnaud upstairs, leaving 
 her to get through the night in the best 
 way she could. Mrs. Arnaud and Heloise 
 encamped in the apartments immediately 
 above George Drummond's, and found peace 
 and freedom.
 
 128 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 BAERI. 
 
 Madame never guessed what she had done 
 on the very first day of her coining, by her 
 temper and her rheumatism. She drove 
 Mrs. Arnaud and Heloise into the third 
 story. Heloise had foreseen this from the 
 first, and had devotedly removed her own 
 bed there, but she had held her tongue 
 about her grandmamma's rheumatism, just to 
 avoid discussion. She had also mentioned 
 the third story, generally, as a ' bedroom,' 
 whereas it was an excellent suite of rooms, 
 slightly lower from floor to ceiling than the 
 two other floors, but most comfortable in
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 129 
 
 every way, as the late tenant, Major Chutney, 
 knew full well. Madame, however, had the 
 intense pleasure of believing that her 
 daughter and granddaughter were sleeping in 
 an attic under the tiles. 
 
 The rooms were most excellently 
 furnished, and so high over the street that 
 the noise, such as there was in Hartley Street, 
 was almost inaudible. Mrs. Arnaud and 
 Heloise made themselves completely com- 
 fortable, and although meals were eaten in 
 the back parlour downstairs, under the 
 superintendence of Madame, who grumbled 
 persistently at Eachel's cooking, still, more 
 went on upstairs than ever she knew about. 
 People desiring to see Mrs. Arnaud privately 
 had only to knock at the private door, be 
 let in by Rachel, and ascend to the sanctum 
 at once. 
 
 Barri, the son of Lord Eliyader, was 
 
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 130 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 one of the first visitors. Heloise, one 
 morning, taking rest from the business and 
 her grandmamma, was reading in the sitting 
 room when Eachel announced Mr. Drum- 
 mond and the young gentleman. Heloise 
 rose, and saw George Drummond for the 
 first time. He seemed, in an instant, startled 
 and confused. She was woman, and 
 Frenchwoman enough to know that it was 
 at her own beauty. She liked it, and, what 
 is more, she liked him. By his side was a 
 handsome boy whom she did not know. 
 
 ' I beg pardon, Mademoiselle, but Lord 
 Ehyader asked me to convey my young friend 
 hereto see Mrs. Arnaud. Mr. Barri Arnaud, 
 — Mademoiselle Heloise.' 
 
 ' As if,' Barri said, with his hands in 
 his breeches pockets and his hat under his 
 left arm ; ' a fellow of fourteen at Eton 
 couldn't find the way for himself, without
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 131 
 
 having the way shown him by a clerk in the 
 Home Office, and that clerk, George Drurn- 
 mond. I assure you, Mademoiselle, that this 
 man is a lunatic' 
 
 ' Barri,' said George Drummond, ' I will 
 give you something that you will remember, 
 directly.' 
 
 ' All right, my boy. I shan't resist. I 
 will wait until I am big enough, and then I 
 will give it back. ' 
 
 ' Well, then, don't be impertinent, 
 child.' 
 
 ' Child, yes, I am a mere child, am I not, 
 Mademoiselle ? ' 
 
 ' Certainly, Monsieur, and I am fond of 
 children.' 
 
 ' Then just give a kiss if you please,' said 
 Barri, and he at once took one. 'What 
 would you have given for that ? ' he said to 
 George. 
 
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 132 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 Heloise was not in the least degree dis- 
 concerted. She laughed at George Drum- 
 mond, keeping her hand on Barri's shoulder. 
 ' He is to come here often, I hear,' she said. 
 ' Shall you always come with him ? ' 
 
 1 Certainly, if it gives me the pleasure I 
 have now.' 
 
 ' It is entirely mutual,' she replied, ' you 
 will sit down until my aunt comes up. I 
 have not met you before, and so I could 
 never thank you for your great kindness to 
 my aunt the first night she came here. 
 Believe me, Mr. Drummond, that my aunt is 
 a woman who requires the most delicate 
 kindness, and those who show it to her shall 
 have all that I can give them, my thanks.' 
 
 ' There is no such woman in the world 
 as Mary Arnaud,' said Band ; ' by Jove, here 
 she is!' and the next moment he had his 
 arms round her neck.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 133 
 
 She looked as handsome as ever, and 
 sank down in her easy chair with the same 
 exquisite grace. ' I am so glad,' she said, 
 4 that Barri has caused this new introduction 
 between us, Mr. Drummond ; though, indeed, 
 I might have claimed your acquaintance 
 after the first night we met, but I waited for 
 you to move in what I hope may be a lasting- 
 acquaintance. Your father,' she continued, 
 drawing Barri to her and stroking his hair, 
 ' was very kind to me once, before I retired 
 from the world. Until I left that retirement 
 and saw him again, I was unaware that he 
 had a son. Lord Festiniog and Lord Ehy- 
 ader speak of you in such high terms that I 
 shall be proud to know you, not as a lodger, 
 but as a friend. Come and see us as often 
 as you can, I am sure my niece will be glad 
 to see you.' 
 
 ' Assuredly, Monsieur will be welcome,
 
 134 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 both for his own kindness to yon, and for his 
 father's.' 
 
 ' The fact is,' said Mrs. Arnaud, ' that my 
 mother, Madame Mantalent, occupies the 
 ground floor, and assists me, not only with 
 capital, but with, what is far better, her ex- 
 perience and taste. She, however, is old, 
 and dislikes visitors, so I can better receive 
 my friends here.' 
 
 ' She dislikes visitors so much,' said 
 Barri, 'that she raises Cain because nobody 
 ever comes to see her. I must 20 down 
 and pay my respects before I come up 
 again.' 
 
 ' You had better not,' said Mrs. Arnaud ; 
 but youth is rash, and he was gone. 
 
 George Drummond took his leave after 
 twenty minutes' conversation, during which 
 he explained that Barri and he had an old 
 friendship, arising out of a stay which he had
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 135 
 
 once made at Festiniog. But the deed was 
 done ; he had entered that room an ambitious, 
 careful, heart-whole man, with a dozen pro- 
 jects in his head for raising himself in the 
 world. He left it with the same number of 
 projects, but they were all now for another. 
 His thoughts about his own future had 
 passed away, except in so far as he might 
 make a glorious future for Heloise. 
 
 Did she know it? Did she know that 
 the man was walking and breathing in a 
 different atmosphere to that in which he had 
 existed half-an-hour ago ? We think that 
 she did. 
 
 He was a young man whom any one 
 would have been proud of loving ; she 
 could have loved him herself, had she not 
 loved some one else. The most unfortunate 
 fact was, that she had got into an awful en- 
 tanglement elsewhere, and that she had told
 
 136 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 Mrs. Arnaud such a Mississippi of lies at 
 first, that she could now neither ask for her 
 sympathy or advice, when she most needed 
 them. She very nearly made a vow never to 
 tell another story in her life, or only a cer- 
 tain number a day ; but when she saw how 
 perfectly futile such a resolution would be, 
 she gave up the idea ; for the little lady had, 
 at least, this merit, that she knew her own 
 character perfectly, and that though she de- 
 ceived other people, she never deceived her- 
 self.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 137 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 A FAMILY CONSULTATION. 
 
 Lord Festixiog, Lord Rhyader, Lady 
 Rhyader, Mr. Drummond, and Mr. George 
 Drimimond sat down to dinner together : it 
 was a family party, and more than one of 
 them knew perfectly well that family affairs, 
 and those only, were to be discussed. 
 
 Never having been in the ministry our- 
 selves, we are unable to say what goes on at 
 a meeting of cabinet ministers. We should 
 be inclined to think that every one was 
 either silent, or talked on indifferent matters, 
 until the chief gave the key note. Then, we
 
 138 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 should conceive, might follow a long and, 
 sometimes, acrimonious argument, after the 
 making up of which, her Majesty was 
 advised. We know nothing about the 
 matter, we only guess. 
 
 Every one present at Lord Festiniog's 
 table knew perfectly well that Mrs. Arnaud 
 and her relations were to be the subject of 
 conversation. The gentle, and now middle- 
 aged, Lady Ehyader knew the fact so well 
 that she never offered to go away when the 
 dessert was set on and the servants had with- 
 drawn. She, in fact, relieved them all from 
 the difficulty of beginning, by plunging in 
 medias res. 
 
 ' Now that we are alone together, Lord 
 Festiniog,' she said — ' for I do not mind Mr. 
 George Drummond — I wish to have a few 
 words with you about Mrs. Arnaud.' 
 
 ' And why not ? ' said Lord Festiniog.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 139 
 
 ' That is no answer, sir. I want to know 
 what you are going to do about her.' 
 
 ' I have acknowledged her as my 
 daughter-in-law, and we ought to have her 
 here.' 
 
 ' So I think. You have gone to such 
 astounding lengths in this matter that you 
 ought to go further ; we ought not to do 
 things by halves.' 
 
 ' Here's a woman for you,' said Lord 
 Festinioo - , ' has had the best dinner that 
 money could buy, and then breaks out 
 like this. What is the matter with you, 
 Alice ? ' 
 
 ' Never you mind, sir. You give me a 
 fair answer to a fair question, and don't be 
 diplomatic with me. I want to know what 
 you are going to do about Mary.' 
 
 ' Oh ! I see what you mean. You want 
 me to tell the truth.'
 
 l 4 o NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 1 Exactly,' said Lady Khyader. 
 
 ' Well, then, I will do anything you 
 choose to propose.' 
 
 ' And so on,' said Lady Khyader. ' Then 
 you will ask her here.' 
 
 ' Certainly. She was always, as it were, 
 one of the family when we were alone. No 
 one knew but that she was some poor 
 relation.' 
 
 ' And her mother and niece ? ' 
 
 ' Of course. I will do anything which 
 I am asked to do, if I am asked civilly.' 
 
 1 Well, then, I must civilly ask you not to 
 have her mother and niece here. Do you 
 understand ? ' 
 
 'Why?' 
 
 ' 1 am mistress of this house, and I 
 refuse to answer you. I will receive Mrs. 
 Arnaud, but neither her mother nor her 
 niece.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 141 
 
 ' May I not plead for the niece, Madam ? ' 
 said George Drummond. 
 
 She rose and looked full at him ; then 
 they all rose as she went upstairs. George 
 Drummond was nearest the door and opened 
 it for her. As she passed him she said three 
 words only to him in a low tone, and then 
 passed out. 
 
 A moment after a footman came in and 
 whispered to George Drummond. He went 
 out. Lady Ehyader was standing on the 
 staircase waiting for him. 
 
 Mr. George Drummond,' she said 
 hurriedly, ' are you in love with that girl ? ' 
 
 ' Yes.' 
 
 ' Then I will say no more. Is your 
 decision irrevocable ? ' 
 
 ' I fear so.' 
 
 ' Then God help you, my poor boy,' and 
 so she left him.
 
 142 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 When he came back to the dining-room 
 it was obvious that they had been saying 
 something in his abseDce. They had 
 evidently been talking about him, and as 
 he did not want to stop their conversation, 
 he mode a pretence of finishing a glass of 
 wine, and went upstairs to Lady Bhyader. 
 We will remain in the dining-room for the 
 present. 
 
 ' Drummond,' said Lord Festiniog, ' have 
 you been to see the widow lately ? ' 
 
 ' No, my lord. I do not think that she 
 wishes to see me.' 
 
 ' Want of taste on her part,' said Lord 
 Festiniog, ' for you are a handsome and 
 agreeable fellow still, Drummond.' 
 
 ' If you flatter me, Lord Festiniog, I 
 shall begin to be disagreeable.' 
 
 ' Don't lose your temper, Drummond,
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 143 
 
 that was always your fault, as it was the 
 fault of your father before you.' 
 
 ' Well, you know that I cannot have 
 much wish to see her. Our relations in old 
 times were extremely painful.' 
 
 ' True,' said Lord Festiniog, ' what a 
 singular thing it is that she should settle in 
 the very house where your son was lodging.' 
 
 ' Well, that was my doing,' said Drum- 
 mond. ' I sent her there.' 
 
 ' That you might go and see her some- 
 times, eh ? ' said Lord Festiniog. 
 
 'No. I have no wish to see her until 
 she asks me, and that is not likely.' 
 
 ' Don't say anything more about that, 
 father,' said Lord Ehyader. ' Is she likely 
 to do well in this business, Drummond ? ' 
 
 ' Yes. She will probably make her 
 fortune ; were it not so I should not have 
 sent her there.'
 
 144 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' Who on earth could it have been,' said 
 Lord Festiniog, ' who put her first on the 
 truth about her being really married ? ' 
 
 ' Her mother, doubtless,' said Drum- 
 mond, looking Lord Festiniog straight in the 
 face. 
 
 ' It most certainly was not the old lady, 
 I should say,' said Lord Khyader. ' At least, 
 I do not think that it could have been. She 
 never cared twopence about the matter ; she 
 thought that she had done her duty as a 
 mother by pitching her daughter overboard. 
 I saw her in Paris a year ago, and she was 
 most affectionate to me. She did not har- 
 bour any ill will to her daughter, but ex- 
 tremely lamented her loss to the business. 
 I don't think that the old woman would 
 have made or meddled in the matter. It 
 must have been her brother who urged the 
 rest of the family not to receive her.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 145 
 
 ' That is rather a lame conclusion, is it 
 not ? ' said Drummond, who knew fifty times 
 more about the matter than Ehyader. 
 
 ' Possibly, but such is my instinct.' 
 
 ' Ay, but instincts are not business,' said 
 Drummond. ' By the bye, talking of busi- 
 ness, you have written to me to raise five 
 hundred pounds for you. But you don't tell 
 me on what security : is it on post obit or 
 what?' 
 
 The sum was really 5,000/., but Drum- 
 mond withheld that fact : he wanted to hold 
 the whip hand of Lord Ehyader, and he 
 thought that this was the best way of doing 
 so. He was completely mistaken in his 
 tactics, and liked father and son none the 
 better for the fact. 
 
 ' You want money ! ' said Lord Festiniog, 
 laughing. ' What ham you been doing ? A 
 saint like you in the money market : that is 
 
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 146 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 too good. Come, pass the wine and tell us 
 all about it. This is the best thing I have 
 heard for some time.' 
 
 ' Well, sir, the fact is that I made a very 
 foolish speculation. I am an avaricious 
 man, and I put five thousand pounds in the 
 Gulf Stream Company, believing that there 
 was a subsidy. There is none, and I have 
 lost my money : that is all.' 
 
 ' Why did not you come to me instead of 
 going to Drummond ? Don't let us pay it, 
 Ehyader, my boy. Let us see if we can 
 dispute it in law. Drummond, just see if we 
 have any chance, and Ehyader and I will 
 fight it. Or, if you hate publicity, Gervase, 
 of course I will pay it ; but I ask you, as a 
 favour, to let Drummond get counsel's 
 'opinion. A law suit would be immense 
 fun.' 
 
 ' I am bound both by gratitude, and by
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 147 
 
 duty to follow your directions, sir,' said 
 Ehyader. 
 
 ' Then hey ! for a good law suit, I say. I 
 will find the sinews of war, and Drummond 
 shall find the talent. Now, let us go up to 
 your wife and George Drummond, he is 
 no bottle breaker. You should tell him to 
 take wine in moderation, Drummond, or he 
 being unused to it might get overtaken by it.' 
 
 ' He has a will of his own in all matters, 
 Lord Festiniog,' was all that Drummond 
 said. 
 
 They went upstairs. Lady Ehyader was 
 ready with coffee, but George Drummond 
 had disappeared. Lady Ehyader, in answer 
 to their enquiries, said that he had a bad 
 headache, and was gone home. They thought 
 nothing about the matter. 
 
 ' Where is Barri ? ' said Lord Festiniocr. 
 
 o 
 
 ' He was not at dessert, and he is not here.' 
 
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 148 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' He is at Mrs. Arnaud's, I believe. Mr. 
 George Drummond left him there, and said 
 that he would walk home with him. The 
 boy wants a balloon, to let up with the gas, 
 and Mrs. Arnaud's footman told him that he 
 could tell him where to get one. He will 
 be home soon.' 
 
 ' He is pretty familiar at Mrs. Arnaud's, 
 already,' said Lord Festiniog. 
 
 ' Oh yes, he is there nearly every day. 
 She treats him as if he were her own son. 
 The boy is tiresome at home and I like his 
 going there. He has a fancy for doing so, 
 and I do not see why he should not.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 149 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 DRUMMOND THE ELDER. 
 
 Drummond left Lord Festiniog's very early, 
 and on getting to his study, was extremely 
 surprised to find his son there with his head 
 buried in his hands before the fire. He at 
 once saw that something; was wrong, and he 
 approached George Drummond and put his 
 hand on his shoulder. 
 
 ' What is the matter, my boy ? ' he asked. 
 ' What has Lady Ehyader said which has 
 given you a headache ? ' 
 
 ' Now, you save me the trouble of coming 
 to the point,' said George Drummond. ' She
 
 ISO NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 has been saying things which I do not under- 
 stand.' 
 
 ' Well, tell me what she has said ; if you 
 cannot trust me, who can you trust ? ' 
 
 ' Ay ! but she says that you are the last 
 man to be trusted ; what am I to do if she 
 says that again ? ' 
 
 ' Tell her that she lies,' said Drummond, 
 very quietly. ' No, you can't do that. But 
 what has she been saying about me?' 
 
 ' Well, I hardly like to tell you, father. 
 We got in hot dispute over a certain matter, 
 and lost our tempers. Then she said that 
 you were the person who had put Mrs. Ar- 
 naud in possession of the facts of her mar- 
 riage, and that you had set her on Lord 
 Festiniog.' 
 
 ' She is a clever little woman,' said 
 Drummond, with an expression of ad- 
 miration. ' She is perfectly right.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTH EX. 151 
 
 ' Father, did you do that? ' 
 
 ' Certainly, my son. You inherit all my 
 property, and I have no idea of your marry- 
 ing into a family with the curse of illegiti- 
 . macy on it. You will marry Heloise, I sup- 
 pose ; at least, from what the boy Barri tells 
 me, I should think it probable. If you 
 decide on her, I wish her to be received into 
 society. Barri tells me that you are au 
 mieux with her, go on and prosper.' 
 
 The transparency of this falsehood never 
 struck George Drummond. He could not 
 possibly have known that George would 
 ever see Heloise, when he told Mrs. Arnaud 
 the truth ; therefore, how could he have be- 
 trayed his client for such a purpose ? George 
 never saw that until afterwards. 
 
 ' I am in love with her, I confess, father, 
 but she will never marry me. Lady Ehy- 
 ader told me all about it to-night ; Heloise
 
 152 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 knew my fellow lodger D'Arcy, in Paris, 
 most intimately. She has followed him here.' 
 
 ' That is an outrageous untruth,' said 
 Drummond. ' What else did Lady Khyader 
 say?' 
 
 ' She said that the whole thing between 
 them was notorious in Paris, and that 
 Madame Mantalent had in reality only come 
 over to bring him to book.' 
 
 ' Now listen to me, George,' said the 
 elder Drummond. ' Lady Khyader is as 
 incapable of telling lies intentionally as 
 you are, but she believes them. All this 
 story about D'Arcy is false, from beginning 
 to end, by whom told I do not know. The 
 whole thing is a fiction. I have got the key 
 to it, but I don't know the whole truth. I 
 will go and see the old woman to-morrow, 
 and get it out of her. JNTow look here, boy, I 
 have watched Mrs. Arnaud all her life, and
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 153 
 
 I know everything about her and her re- 
 lations. I tell you that there never was 
 anything in the world between D'Arcy and 
 Heloise. Will that satisfy you ? ' 
 
 'Well, no. I am afraid that there is 
 something between them.' 
 
 ' I will look into that for you. I fancy 
 that you are wrong. I conceive that there 
 is a confidence between them, but that it is 
 about some other person I don't know. I 
 will o-et it out of the old woman to-morrow.' 
 
 'What, Madame Mantalent?' said 
 George : ' she is a difficult customer, I 
 fancy.' 
 
 ' Fiddle ! ' said Drummond : ' ask her 
 how much money she owes me ; she will 
 cast her old wig on the fire.' 
 
 ' Owe you money ? ' 
 
 ' Yes, boy. Like all Frenchwomen, she 
 speculated under the Empire, and I, having
 
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 154 X UMBER SEVENTEEX. 
 
 certain designs in hand, made friends with 
 her, and lent certain sums to her. She has 
 naturally not repaid them, though she could 
 do so if she chose. I will just go to her to- 
 morrow, and hear what she has to say. The 
 threads of a very vast matter are in my 
 hands, George ; when I have got them to- 
 gether I will use my power for your in- 
 terest.' 
 
 'But, father, you are scheming about 
 something. Pause, and think how happy 
 we might "be without any attempt to go 
 higher in the world.' 
 
 ' Who told you that I was scheming ? ' 
 
 ' Your face. I know it well ; you are 
 hiding something from me.' 
 
 ' I am.' 
 
 ' Confide to me, father.' 
 
 ' I cannot, I have committed a great 
 crime, and I dare not tell you of it.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 155 
 
 'Why?' 
 
 ' Because you would cast me away 
 as the dirt under your feet, if I told 
 you.' 
 
 ' Father ! father ! why should you say 
 that to me ? Of myself I say nothing. I 
 have tried to do my duty by you, and 
 you will allow that I have never failed 
 in it.' 
 
 ' Never for a moment,' said Drummond. 
 
 ' As for your duty to me, what can I say 
 about that? why I have not words to ex- 
 press what I owe you. No man had ever 
 such a father as you have been to me. 
 Believe me, that I love and trust you beyond 
 all living men, and that everything which 
 you say to me is sacred. Let me share your 
 sorrow or your crime ; do not, after so 
 many years of kindness, entirely repel me 
 from your heart.'
 
 156 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' You are talking like a madman,' said 
 Drummond, ' and you are driving me mad. 
 I cannot say any more to-night. You shall 
 marry the girl if money can do it, but I 
 will not urge you to marry her if she loves 
 someone else. Now, go home to Number 
 Seventeen, look up Madame Mantalent if 
 she is not gone to bed, and tell her that I 
 am coming to see her to-morrow. You 
 may say that I want 1,500/. of her, and that 
 will make her civil.' 
 
 ' But, father,' said George Drummond, 
 recurring to the very singular revelation 
 which Mr. Drummond had made ; ; won't 
 you confide in me ? ' 
 
 Drummond looked at him pensively for 
 a minute, and then said, ' I cannot do it, my 
 boy. I cannot part with you, at least, not 
 yet.' 
 
 ' But, father, I would go to the scaffold
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 157 
 
 for you. Lay your hand on my heart, and 
 see how true it beats.' 
 
 ' Go away, old boy.' 
 
 1 Father, I would almost give up Heloise 
 for your sake.' 
 
 'No, by no means. You must know 
 nothing. I have an object to gain, and 
 then—' 
 
 ' And what then ? ' 
 
 ' Would you do anything which I asked 
 you?' 
 
 ' Why, of course I would.' 
 
 'Murder?' 
 
 ' Why no,' said George Drummond, 
 laughing. ' But I would do anything to 
 oblige you. Well, now, I will really go ; I 
 shall bring you to confidence some day,' and 
 he went. 
 
 Drummond the elder sat over the fire, 
 and thought deeply but without any result.
 
 158 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 Undecided in purpose he had always been : 
 he was never more so than now, when he 
 held the cards in his hands, or at least 
 thought that he did so. 
 
 He never had been married, save once 
 for a very short time. He had lived with 
 more than one woman for a time, but he had 
 never loved one of them : the only woman 
 he had ever cared for in his life was Mrs. 
 Arnaud ; and she seemed as far away from 
 him as ever. In fact, she seemed to get a 
 Growing dislike to him. He had asked him- 
 self often why this was, and now he began 
 to see the answer. 
 
 She was a woman of singular loyalty and 
 truthfulness in her way ; although she had 
 a latent genius for fiction, scarcely inferior 
 to that of Heloise, which she only used when 
 required by extreme necessity ; and she 
 could not trust him.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 159 
 
 It was lie that had made love to her 
 during the time that he was married. It 
 was he who, for the sake of putting her 
 under an obligation, had found out the fact 
 of her having been married. He had be- 
 trayed Lord Festiniog in doing this, and had 
 been false to him about it since. But he 
 had got no nearer to Mrs. Arnaud's heart. 
 She despised him for the treachery which 
 had benefited her. 
 
 . His affection for George Drummond was 
 singularly strong. A lonely man all his life, 
 George Drummond, with his innocence and 
 talent, both as boy and as man, had been a 
 great pleasure to him. He wanted to do 
 that young man a great service, and himself 
 a greater. He wished to marry Mrs. Ar- 
 naud even though she hated him. It seems 
 strange, but it was so ; we see the thing every 
 day if we look for it. His last chance for
 
 160 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 gaining his object was in George Drummond 
 — and in murder. It is no use disguising the 
 fact. A certain life, as he thought, stood 
 between him and his object ; and that life 
 must go. There was no actual necessity for 
 it, but a secret which will leak out soon 
 about him will account for his folly. He 
 could never think on a certain subject con- 
 secutively. 
 
 Yet in most things he was a respectable 
 man. He had an excellent practice and a 
 most excellent income. He had more busi- 
 ness than he knew how to set through with : 
 yet it was observed, by those who cared 
 about his affairs, that he had not made his 
 son a lawyer but a gentleman, as if the two 
 things were totally incompatible, which, we 
 are happy to say, is not the case. He had 
 not used his son's great talents by educating 
 him for the law, and taking him into practice.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 161 
 
 He had other designs for him, and his busi- 
 ness friends thought him a fool, for Geonre 
 Drummond could have made the business 
 twice what it was. 'Why, then, was he 
 kicking his heels at the Home Office ? ' they 
 asked. 
 
 Her father desired no confidant in his 
 business ; it is the oldest story in the world. 
 One man was mad about one woman, and 
 there was a wild and ever fading chance of 
 her, through carefully planned assassination. 
 
 ' If I fail in that,' he said, ' I will kill 
 her, and then myself. I am not sure that I 
 had better do both those things this very 
 night. I would do it, only I have some 
 lingering superstition about the next world. 
 However, the cub shall go. That will pave 
 the way. 
 
 ' How on earth shall I ever get into the 
 household ? There will be the difficulty. If 
 
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 1 62 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 I could only get theni to Italy I could do it, 
 or rather she could ; but there is no chance 
 of it.' 
 
 The dexterous, keen-headed lawyer was 
 left without any power of decision whatever. 
 Murder ' tided at the pin,' but the murder 
 must be done by another hand ; and there 
 was only one which he could command. It 
 never struck the man that wealth, honour, 
 and virtue would be in the end too strong; 
 for him. Least of all did it strike him that 
 Nature would in this case invade civilisation, 
 and solve the matter in her own peculiar 
 way. 
 
 Let him disappear for the present, ready 
 for any mischief, but not quite sure of his 
 means. Charged with 100 lb. of com- 
 pressed gun cotton, let us leave him to go off 
 under the bottom of that very safe ship the 
 ' Festiniog.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 163 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 MOVEMENTS AT NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 The pleasant and almost whimsical life of 
 Mrs. Arnaud went on. She had seen 
 trouble, and serious trouble, nay, had been 
 close upon tragedy. Now, however, her 
 ship was sailing with a perfectly fair wind 
 in a tolerably smooth sea. If any one had 
 told her of great danger, she would have 
 smiled ; had any one told her that the quiet 
 middle-aged lawyer Drummond was pre- 
 pared to blow her and others into the air, 
 she would have laughed. 
 
 There was a great attraction towards 
 Number Seventeen, to all the people we have
 
 1 64 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 mentioned. Barri began to discover that 
 he was one of the most popular persons in 
 the establishment. Mrs. Arnaud had always 
 been fond of him. Heloise liked him 
 because he was impudent and handsome, 
 and because she could get anything out of 
 him which she chose. Eachel liked every- 
 thing young, and so liked him. The maid 
 liked him because he made love to her, and 
 the footman liked him because he was told 
 off to take him to toy shops, and so escaped 
 much of his duty. Toy shops we said : say 
 rather the theatres at the morning perfor- 
 mance and the Crystal Palace itself. Barri 
 and Mrs. Arnaud's young footman saw a 
 great deal of life together. 
 
 Not that Barri was ever out after dark. 
 Lady Rhyader was very particular on that 
 subject, as was also Mrs. Arnaud. The heir 
 to a vast fortune was not to be trifled with,
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 165 
 
 more particularly, because in case of any- 
 thing happening to the boy Barri, there was 
 no possible heir, and the title was extinct. 
 The boy was treated by all as though he 
 was a moss rose done up in silver paper. 
 And he knew his value too ; his father and 
 mother Ehyader, were answerable for that. 
 
 He was a very good little fellow, affec- 
 tionate, shrewd beyond belief, but over- 
 grown and not over-strong. He seemed to 
 take mostly to George Drummond, Mrs. 
 Arnaud and Madame Mantalent ; and one 
 charming fact about Barri was, that he 
 always carefully repeated in one society 
 what he had heard in another. 
 
 ' How do you do, Madame Mantalent ? ' 
 he would say, dashing into the back parlour, 
 the same room in which Mrs. Arnaud had 
 undergone her penance on the first night of 
 her arrival.
 
 1 66 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 And ' Comment vous portez-vous, petit 
 vanrien ? ' would madame reply. 
 
 ' You are not polite, madame,' replied 
 Barri. ' What a pity it is that your rheu- 
 matism does not allow you to go upstairs.' 
 
 ' Why, monsieur.' 
 
 ' There is better fun upstairs than there 
 is down here. I say, Madame Mantalent.' 
 
 ' Well.' 
 
 ' Is Heloise going to marry D'Arcy or 
 George? Because she seems to be setting 
 her cap at both. Grandpa says that Mrs. 
 Arnaud will ultimately marry Mr. Drum- 
 mond. Now a woman with such a noble 
 wig as yours ought to have some sense 
 under it. If I was in your place I should 
 set them all right.' 
 
 So the boy went away, and the old 
 woman prepared to make herself disagree- 
 able to Lord Festiniog. She wrote him a
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 167 
 
 letter which she knew would bring hiin, and 
 began packing for a journey to Paris. 
 
 He arrived at the most busy time of the 
 afternoon : he was uncertain as to which 
 way he had better get at her, and like 
 many people who deliberate he took the 
 most foolish course. He went into the shop. 
 
 He had no time to ask for her. She 
 bore down on him full sail, threw her arms 
 rounjj. his neck, kissed him and addressed 
 hiin in the most friendly and affectionate 
 terms before every one ; then with an 
 enormous amount of loudly expressed 
 anxiety, she swept him into the parlour, 
 leaving the whole affair to be talked of all 
 over London for the next week, and find 
 what solution it could. 
 
 She had succeeded in her object of 
 publicly annoying him ; now she took a turn 
 at him in private. If the unhappy noble-
 
 1 68 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 man had anything to say for himself, she 
 gave him no time to say it. She had called 
 him there by a letter which urged private 
 matters of the highest interest as the 
 object of the interview. The private and 
 confidential matter was that Mrs. Arnaud's 
 footman was teaching Barri to drink, and 
 that she as a mother could not depart for 
 Paris without telling his lordship of the 
 state of the case. Her daughter, she said, 
 was a fool and a most ungrateful fool, as 
 silly and weak now as she was when she 
 married that brigand looking son of his, 
 Iltyd. (She had never seen him, and he 
 was of a singularly frank and pleasing 
 aspect.) Next she said that she was going 
 to Paris because she could not stay any 
 longer in a house where such things went 
 on, as were going on upstairs. D'Arcy and
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 169 
 
 George Drummond were both in love with 
 Heloise, and her ingrate of a daughter 
 favoured George Drummond, while Heloise 
 herself was attached to D'Arcy. So she 
 scolded on and in the course of time came 
 to George Drummond's father. The son, 
 according to her, was a disreputable spend- 
 thrift, but he was a saint to Drummond 
 himself. She had been forced to borrow 
 money of him in consequence of the ruin 
 brought on her by her daughter's alliance 
 with his family, and what interest she paid 
 on it she declined to tell ; his lordship would 
 not believe it if she did. (As she did not 
 pay any interest at all, and as Drummond 
 had no earthly security for it, Lord Festiniog 
 would have been extremely surprised had 
 he known that such a shrewd person as 
 Drummond had let her have it on such
 
 170 .NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 terms, even though he did happen to admire 
 her daughter.) 
 
 Now, all this affected Lord Festiniog very 
 slightly, he trusted Mary Arnaud, George, 
 and the boy perfectly well, though he had 
 not yet made any great acquaintance with 
 George, whom Ehyader still disliked. The 
 old woman, whose object was sinply to make 
 every one uncomfortable, through the head 
 of the family, saw this, and shot her last bolt, 
 which hit. 
 
 She said that she had the greatest dis- 
 like to betray her own daughter, but that 
 she would never see a viper plotting agaiust 
 Lord Festiniog's peace of mind, now that he 
 had done justice to her old, and hitherto 
 respectable family. Then, she finally, and 
 beyond doubt, proved to him, what she knew 
 was the truth, that Drummond was a traitor
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 171 
 
 to him, that it was lie who had told Mrs. 
 Arnaud of the legality of her marriage.' 
 
 ' Can you prove that, madame ? ' said he. 
 
 ' Tax him with it : or, stay milord, tax 
 Iter with it, and see what answer either of 
 them dares to give.' 
 
 ' I am very much obliged to you for 
 your information, madame, which I am sure 
 is given with the best intentions. May I 
 ask you the favour of the loan of one of 
 your rings ? ' 
 
 Madame made the emprunt with the 
 greatest alacrity, and was so eager to get the 
 ring off, that in the struggle she gave herself 
 a muscular strain in the back : the effect of 
 this was, that she accompanied the presenta- 
 tion of the ring by a wild and dismal howl, 
 such as only rheumatism can produce. 
 
 The unpitying and brutal, insular old
 
 \J2 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 booby (that was what she called him to 
 herself), took no notice of her yell, and de- 
 parted with the ring, returning almost im- 
 mediately with another in addition, of which 
 he begged her acceptance. As, next to 
 dress and mischief making, she liked jewel- 
 lery better than anything else in the world, 
 she would have risen and embraced Lord 
 Festiniog, but she was afraid of another rick 
 in her back ; because she knew that when 
 one came, another was pretty sure to follow, 
 and it would not have done for her to have 
 given a war-whoop just as she was kissing 
 him. She therefore gave him her benedic- 
 tion and put on her ring, after which they 
 parted with mutual satisfaction, and saw one 
 another no more in this world. 
 
 Lord Festiniog ascertained from Heloise 
 that Mrs. Arnaud was upstairs alone. He 
 went up by himself, and found her sitting
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 173 
 
 by the window resting. When she saw him 
 she came towards him with her old, frank, 
 pleasant smile. He was half disarmed before 
 he opened his mouth, but she saw that there 
 was a cloud on his face, and she took his 
 hands and looked wonderingly into it. 
 
 ' Mary,' he said ' have you always been 
 frank with me ?' 
 
 ' Yes,' she said with a pause ; ' I think 
 so.' 
 
 ' Who was it who told you of your mar- 
 riage, and set you on me ? ' 
 
 ' Oh ! you have found that out,' she said. 
 ' Well — I am not at all sure that I am sorry. 
 I do not ask you who told you, only you can 
 bear me out that I did not. I bound myself 
 in honour to him, and even now his name is 
 not mentioned.' 
 
 ' Nor shall it be,' said he : ' do you trust 
 him ? '
 
 174 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' No ! he put me in possession of the fact 
 in hopes that I would marry him. I need 
 not say what answer I gave.' 
 
 ' Do you think he has some scheme in 
 hand still, of which you are the object? ' 
 
 ' I fancy so, but I cannot tell what it is. 
 He has two pair of eyes on him now, how- 
 ever, yours and mine. Sit down and let us 
 talk a little more. You have been with my 
 mother ; what sort of a character has she 
 given me ? ' 
 
 ' The character of a poor weak saint, 
 surrounded on all sides by harpies and 
 villains. Your footman, I gather, is teaching 
 Barri to drink ; your lodgers are quarrelling 
 about your niece ; I forget the rest.' 
 
 ' What a shame ! the young man is an 
 excellent young man, and as for my lodgers 
 quarrelling about Heloise, they are very 
 good friends, and I hope will remain so. I
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 175 
 
 admit them both, certainly, D'Arcy because 
 he knew Heloise in Paris, and George 
 Drummond because he is here with Barri, 
 who thinks him the best of created beings, 
 after his own family, of course.' 
 
 ' Are either of them epris with Heloise ? ' 
 
 ' I fancy both of them, to a certain extent. 
 But you must remember that I should be the 
 last person to see to what extent. Before 
 me, of course, there is nothing but politeness.' 
 
 ' What do you think of George Drum- 
 mond ? ' said Lord Festinioir. 
 
 ' I like him amazingly, now. I did not 
 care much for him at first ; his manner is 
 cold, but when the crust of him is got 
 through, you will not find a more affectionate 
 or warm-hearted fellow anywhere. I wish 
 you would see more of him. He is such an 
 admirable companion for Barri, and the boy 
 takes to him.'
 
 176 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' Barri and he are old friends, and I will 
 see more of him. But Khyader says that he 
 is such a prig.' 
 
 ' Well,' said Mrs. Arnaud, ' Gervase ought 
 to know better about that matter than I can 
 pretend to do, for he is the king of prigs 
 himself. I cannot say that I find George 
 Drummond to be anything of the sort. I 
 should pass him as a gentleman.' 
 
 ' Would you pass Khyader as one, 
 Mary?' 
 
 6 Well — h'm — yes, I suppose so. Much 
 as I would pass you. I think Khyader, by 
 his birth and position, fancies that he can 
 take liberties which would not be allowed 
 to other people. You do it yourself, you 
 know, and it is not to be tolerated.' 
 
 ' Well, Mary, I will not do it any more : 
 let us be friends.' 
 
 ' By all means. I desire nothing more.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 177 
 
 I thought we were, for we have gone through 
 much together with only one quarrel. Surely 
 we are friends. But stay a moment, before 
 you go. Are you aware that Ehyader and 
 his wife distrust Drummond ? ' 
 
 ' I have a suspicion of it, but I do not 
 like to talk about it, it causes words. He is 
 a good man of business, and I do not wish 
 to part with him. He was shamefully served 
 by his wife, but I fear he has served one 
 woman, at least, very badly. Did you ever 
 hear of a woman called Perrot ? ' 
 
 ' No. Stay ! My servant at Leghorn and 
 at Eavenna married a Frenchman called 
 Perrot. I wonder if it is the same woman.' 
 
 ' It does not matter much,' said Lord 
 Festiniog. ' She was dunning me for money, 
 saying that she knew something. I sent her 
 to Drummond as my legal adviser. Since 
 then she has been very quiet ; and Drummond 
 
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 178 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 has confessed to me that he was in intimate 
 relations with her at one time.' 
 
 'So he was,' said Mrs. Arnand. 'She 
 was my maid. I should like to see her 
 again. She was with me when my poor 
 child died. She was with me during the 
 whole of that horrible fever at Ravenna. I 
 really should like to see the woman.' 
 
 ' Well, it is possible that you may, if she 
 ever wants any money,' said Lord Festiniog. 
 ' What do you say to my going ? ' 
 
 ' You may go if you like, but I would 
 much rather that you stayed. Stay ten 
 minutes, will you ? ' 
 
 ' Why, yes. The sight of your honest 
 handsome face would make me stay any 
 
 time.' 
 
 ' Quite so, and we will consider the rest 
 understood. I want you to see a face more 
 pleasant than mine.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 179 
 
 'That of'Heloise?' 
 
 ' I do not say no to that. But the face 
 I wish you to see just now is of another 
 kind. It is familiar to you, and yet you 
 seem scarcely to know it.' 
 
 'Who is it?' 
 
 ' George Drummond. He is down stairs, 
 let me fetch him and leave you to talk to 
 him.' 
 
 ' I have no objection ; but with what ob- 
 ject?' 
 
 ' I wish to bring you together, that is 
 all.' 
 
 ' Let him come if you like,' he replied, 
 and she went. George Drummond was not 
 Ions in comino'. 
 
 ' Well, Georsre,' said Lord Festinioo- ' that 
 mysterious Mrs. Arnaud says that she wants 
 me to see more of you. I suppose I must, 
 for she always has her own way.' 
 
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 i8o NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' I shall only be too happy to see as 
 much of your lordship as you choose,' said 
 George : ' for one reason if for no other.' 
 
 'And that?' 
 
 ' And that is, that I have a very great 
 affection for Barri Arnaud, and I think that 
 I have more influence over him than anyone 
 else, an influence which I need not tell you 
 I should use for good. The boy has high 
 purposes, which it does not seem to me any 
 of his family understand. He is a petulant, 
 spoilt boy, but with a great deal of good in 
 him. I wish that I was his tutor ; in fact I 
 wish that I was anything but what I am ; 
 and if I might see more of the boy I might 
 prevent his life from being ruined as mine 
 has been : nay, I could not do that, but he 
 would be a companion to me in my unutter- 
 able desolation.' 
 
 'But George Drummondj said Lord
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 181 
 
 Festinioo; : 'what is the use of talking [ n 
 this manner? There is not a young man in 
 England with finer prospects. Your father 
 is rich, you are an only son ; he tells me the 
 scheme he has thought out so shrewdly for 
 your future. He says that you have accepted 
 that future, and have great ambition ; there 
 is nothing to prevent your being an am- 
 bassador, or, if you choose to spend your 
 cash in that way, a member of parliament.' 
 
 ' A month ago, my lord, I had high pur- 
 poses : now I have simply none.' 
 
 'Ah!' said Lord Festiniosr • 'I see# 
 Mademoiselle Heloise has been asked if she 
 will share your future, and prefers a military 
 life ; — is that it ? ' 
 
 ' No, I have not spoken to her, as I 
 know it would be hopeless. I have seen too 
 much.' 
 
 ' Well, perhaps she does like some one
 
 1S2 X UMBER SEVENTEEX. 
 
 else better — that cannot be helped, can 
 
 it?' 
 
 ' No, but life is valueless to me.' 
 
 ' Well,' said Lord Festiniog, ' if anyone 
 had told me this, I would certainly not have 
 believed it. A sensible young fellow like 
 you to talk this to me. Why, man, you 
 have scarcely seen her a month, and you 
 can't be so hard hit as all this comes to. I 
 have been ten times worse off than ever you 
 have. You will get over it, man (7 have, 
 twice), and wonder why you were ever such 
 a fool.' 
 
 George Drummond politely declined to 
 allow the possibility of his ever getting over 
 it, or of his ever putting faith in woman 
 again. 
 
 ' Then there is something you do not 
 choose to tell me about,' said Lord Festi- 
 niog.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 183 
 
 George Drummond was obliged to con- 
 fess that there was. 
 
 ' Then I will ask no more questions. ] 
 am sorry for you. If you like to make love 
 to Barri to console yourself, I will use my 
 influence in your favour. Ehyader does not 
 like you as he ought to, yet, but he soon will 
 if I abuse you to him ; the heir to the throne 
 is always in opposition you know. Lady 
 Ehyader, I think, is as fond of you as she is 
 of any one : the Ormerods are never demon- 
 strative. If you repeat carefully everything 
 which we say against one another behind 
 each other's backs you will soon be the most 
 trusted friend in the family circle. Well, 
 good-bye, don't be down-hearted. Come 
 whenever you like. I think that I shall 
 make sure of a warm welcome for you.'
 
 1 84 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 THE MYSTERY OF D'ARCY AND HELOISE. 
 
 There was something more about Heloise 
 than George Drummond had chosen to tell 
 Lord Eestiniog. A very black suspicion 
 about her had been unfortunately confirmed 
 beyond all manner of doubt, in his mind, 
 and he did not care whether he lived or 
 died. We have a hesitation in explaining 
 what the matter was, yet w r e must do so, or 
 the reader will be as much puzzled as 
 George Drummond was ; and what is worse, 
 will think that there is something wrong, 
 something which should not be told, in the 
 most innocent and romantic business in the 
 world.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 185 
 
 6 D'Arcy had met in London, and very 
 much admired, a certain young lady of very 
 high birth and fortune. He thought that he 
 was very much in love with her, and he fol- 
 lowed her to Paris. She liked him well 
 enough, but there was but little chance of 
 her family consenting to her marriage with a 
 comparatively poor man like D'Arcy. Still, 
 opposition only made them like one another 
 more, and they came to a clandestine cor- 
 respondence. 
 
 Heloise was at this time in Brittany. 
 The young lady was so closely watched by 
 her friends, that correspondence was difficult. 
 But a French friend in whom D'Arcy con- 
 fided, informed him of what was pretty well 
 known elsewhere : namely, that Madame 
 Mantalent of the Rue St. Honore, had for 
 many years managed affairs of that kind for
 
 1 86 X UMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 her customers, and charged for her services 
 proportionately in her bill. 
 
 ' She will not undertake an affair, you 
 know,' said his French friend. 'The old 
 woman is a dragon of virtue. But for an 
 honourable matter like yours, she is the 
 most convenient and sensible person in Paris, 
 which is the same thing as saying in the 
 universe. Still you must pay, my child, and 
 you say that you are not rich.' 
 
 'Oh! I am tolerably well off,' said 
 D'Arcy: 'but how do you manage with 
 the old woman ? ' 
 
 ' Let me look at your pocket-handker- 
 chief,' said his French friend. ' Bah ! ' he 
 said ' this is not in the fashion at all : I would 
 not ask my valet to dust his boots with it. 
 You must have a new set, and, like all the 
 world, have them embroidered at the corner 
 with your monogram. All the world does
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN 187 
 
 it, and Madame Mantalent has a specialite 
 for such work : they will cost you 35 francs 
 a-piece, but you must pay to win.' 
 
 ' Good, and what next ? ' said D'Arcy. 
 
 'Why, you get into discussion with 
 Madame, you pay beforehand, and give her 
 one of your own handkerchiefs for a pattern : 
 in that handkerchief is the letter you wish 
 forwarded. It will reach its destination.' 
 
 ' How ? ' 
 
 'Faith, how am I to say? It is her 
 business, not mine. She gets her share out 
 of the young lady, also. She gets much 
 expensive custom in this way, that is all I 
 know. Only, mind that you never make an 
 appointment to meet the young lady, or she 
 will denounce you at once.' 
 
 ' But how does she know what there is 
 in the letters she passes on ? ' 
 
 ' How does she know ? ' said the French-
 
 1 88 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 man, contemptuously. ' Do you suppose 
 that she does not read every word of them 
 before she sends them ? Why, if anything 
 wrong were discovered with her hand in it, 
 it would ruin her, easy-going as we are in 
 Paris.' 
 
 D'Arcy's expensive friendship with 
 Madame Mantalent was begun in this way. 
 His suit did not very greatly prosper, for 
 he never had the chance of meeting the 
 young lady in private, and, warned by his 
 friend's experience, he never dared to hint 
 at such a thing in a letter. His acquaintance 
 with Madame become more expensive after 
 a short time, for Heloise returned from Brit- 
 tany, and he was thrown against her in the 
 course of business. 
 
 From that moment the young lady was 
 forgotten. He grew cool with a rapidity 
 for which even she could not account ; but
 
 A UMBER SEVENTEEN. 189 
 
 in reality she was not broken-hearted as she 
 had seen someone who was much richer, 
 and whom she liked better. D'Arcy's 
 affections had been transferred to Heloise, 
 and in talking to her about his passion for 
 the young lady for whom he cared no 
 longer, he got into the most confidential 
 relations with her. 
 
 What should have made her love him so 
 suddenly? Who can say? There was not 
 much in the man ; he was handsome and 
 agreeable ; he talked French well ; he 
 dressed well. He was only an Englishman 
 after all : yet there was a je ne sals quoi 
 about him which made him more attractive 
 to her than any other man she had ever 
 seen. She had plenty of young Frenchmen 
 who paid her attention, and who were 
 better dressed and better mannered than he 
 was. Yet she chose him from among them
 
 i go NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 all. For Lis wealth ? no : he was not 
 singularly rich. For his beauty ? why he 
 had only the ordinary good looks of a well- 
 trained and bred Englishman. For his 
 talents? he was not very clever, he could 
 hold his own and no more. She was stupid, 
 save in her exquisite power of management, 
 most half-educated Frenchwomen — we shall 
 be getting into trouble — what we were going 
 to say is that most half-educated women of 
 all nations seem stupid, because they have no 
 facts to reason from. She was stupid, we re- 
 peat ; and he knew more than she did. On 
 occasion he could tell her of things which 
 had never been told her during her convent 
 education. The young Frenchmen who had 
 paid her attention could make themselves 
 more agreeable than D'Arcy ever did. Yet 
 there was the je ne mis quui about him — 
 and — she fell in love with him.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 191 
 
 He came and went for some time. Her 
 time with her grandmother was not a 
 pleasant one. She was a woman of busi- 
 ness, and she calculated D'Arcy's affairs. 
 They were sufficient for her, and in the end 
 he asked her to be affianced to him : she 
 consented. 
 
 At about this time, her aunt Arnaud, 
 who was seldom spoken of in the family, 
 began the fight witli Lord Festiniog, which 
 ended in her recognition. Madame Manta- 
 lent at once took her daughter's part, as far 
 as she could, though she could do little for 
 her daughter save vituperation, which did 
 Mrs. Arnaud no good at all. Even before 
 Mrs. Arnaud was recognised, Madame 
 Mantalent on Heloise's proposition that she 
 should go to England to help her aunt, gave 
 her ready consent. It is no use repeating 
 what we have hinted at previously.
 
 192 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 But matters between D'Arcy and Heloise 
 had gone very far. She told him that her 
 aunt was taking such and such a house, that 
 it was probable that she would be sent for 
 to help in the business, and so on. D'Arcy 
 went to London and took the lodgings. He 
 came into them only a week before Mrs. 
 Arnaud. 
 
 Her position was extremely difficult. 
 The fact was that D'Arcy had married 
 Heloise in Paris, and neither of them dared 
 confess the fact to any human being. He 
 dared not confess it to his family, nor she to 
 hers. They were man and wife, however, 
 according to all laws, human and divine. 
 
 She came with a smiling face to assist 
 Mrs. Arnaud in the business. She as- 
 sisted her in the noblest manner, and she 
 sat, like a little Burgundian as she was, 
 opposite Mrs. Arnaud day after day, and
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 193 
 
 night after night, wondering when she 
 would get the courage to tell the truth. 
 Then, her grandmother came, and frightened 
 her still more. And George Drummond 
 came and fell in love with her, which made 
 a complication which was beyond her 
 powers to solve. 
 
 D'Arcy behaved very well. He began to 
 wish that the marriage should be known to 
 his family, but she begged him, for a time, to 
 say nothing about it, unless — certain con- 
 tingencies should occur. He agreed to that ; 
 but in concealed marriages things are apt to 
 be misunderstood by those not in the pos- 
 session of the real facts. 
 
 George Drummond and D'Arcy had 
 made a sort of friendship together. George 
 had been the oldest lodger in the house, and, 
 during the interregnum between Mrs. Morsey 
 and Mrs. Arnaud, had naturally made ac- 
 
 vol. 1.
 
 194 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 quaintance with him, as a newly arrived 
 lodger. George had had no special infor- 
 mation from his father about Mrs. Arnaud ; 
 such as he had he gave to D'Arcy. There 
 was no need for two young men to talk about 
 family affairs in any way. They neither of 
 them had a point d'appui, they simply 
 made friends. Mrs. Arnaud came, and they 
 talked of her. Heloise came, Madame 
 came, Lord Festiniog came and Barri. 
 George Drummond and D'Arcy talked over 
 them all in the most free and easy maimer. 
 More freely possibly after the advance of 
 Madame sent them upstairs into Mrs. 
 Arnaud's rooms, where George Drummond 
 was free to meet Heloise, and D'Arcy was 
 free to meet his wife. 
 
 George Drummond had determined for 
 some little time to ask D'Arcy about his love 
 for Heloise. He had delayed doing so
 
 NUMBER S EVE NT HEX. 195 
 
 * 
 
 because he was afraid. He saw that they 
 admired one another. 
 
 Yet it would be better surely to speak 
 to him about it. He resolved to do so, and 
 at ten o'clock one night he came down to 
 D'Arcy 's rooms, to speak about the matter. 
 
 D'Arcy was not in his sitting-room, but 
 the door of his bedroom was open. There 
 were two people talking and laughing 
 there, one of them was D'Arcy, the other 
 Heloise. D'Arcy was sitting in a chair, and 
 Heloise was standing behind him, brushing 
 his hair. George slid out of the room with- 
 out making a sound. 
 
 Life was now of no value to him. Look 
 at it for yourself, reader ; conceive how un- 
 utterably horrible it would be in your own 
 case, and think well of him. In some men 
 such a thing would have produced brutality, 
 ferocity : in him it only produced heroism ;
 
 196 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 and, we think, heroism of the highest 
 kind. 
 
 With D'Arcy and Heloise we will trouble 
 you very little. We do not think that 
 there is anything very much to trouble 
 about with them. We only ask you to go 
 forward with George Drummond.
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 197 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 GEORGE DRUMMOND TAKES CHAEGE OF BARM. 
 
 All things, as the Scotch say, seemed to be 
 put past him. He had never loved any 
 woman but Heloise, and she — it was not to 
 be borne, and yet it must be. That that 
 frank, beautiful creature should be unfit to 
 be named, was horrible. Yet, she was 
 talking familiarly to his friend in his friend's 
 bedroom. He had seen it with his own 
 eyes ; he saw it through the open door, 
 against his will. She was in his bedroom, 
 brushing his hair, late at night. French 
 manners might be free, but never so free as 
 that. To us, who know the truth, the matter 
 is harmless enough, but to him it was un- 
 bearable.
 
 198 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 lie also heard her say to him, ' You have 
 inked your cuff again, you very imbecile 
 noodle, you lay your pen down on the desk, 
 and then put your arm in the ink. You are 
 incomparably foolish.' 
 
 So it was all over, as he told Lord 
 Festiniog. It was necessary to shape out 
 some new life for himself. 
 
 What career was there conceivable for 
 him ? What should he do now ? He had 
 partially failed at the university, and he had 
 hopelessly failed in love. Could he trust a 
 woman after his experience of Heloise ? He 
 thought not. He put women aside altogether, 
 and thought, once more, of a career in life. 
 
 But for whom ? As a totally unselfish 
 person he could not decide. 
 
 He had got to be very fond of Mrs. 
 Arnaud, but, when all was said and done, 
 what was she? A handsome milliner,
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 199 
 
 nothing more. Yet, sometimes, lie reniem- 
 bered that she had ventured to kiss him, and 
 that he liked her doing so. He rambled on 
 in idle thought of this kind, and ended by 
 wishing that he was king of England : under 
 which circumstances he fancied that he could 
 put all things right. Then he went to sleep, 
 and was awakened late in the morning by 
 Barri rousing him out of bed with Mrs. 
 Arnaud's dog, and requesting to be taken to 
 the Crystal Palace, dog and all. 
 
 He took Barri to the Crystal Palace, and 
 they had a long day together. It was after 
 this that he spoke to Lord Festiniog. That 
 excellent old man gave him all the comfort 
 in his power, but it was none. He moped 
 and brooded by himself a great deal, dread- 
 ing to meet either D'Arcy or Heloise, who 
 seemed also to avoid him. As for Mrs. 
 Arnaud, though he liked her, and she liked
 
 200 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 him, lie dared not be much with her after 
 what he had discovered about her niece. 
 The responsibility was too heavy. He made 
 a certain discovery, also, without interchang- 
 ing a word. That woman Rachel knew what 
 was going on between D'Arcy and Heloise : 
 she looked so guiltily at him. Yet, could he 
 speak and warn Mrs. Arnaud ? He was the 
 very last man who could possibly do so. 
 
 The boy Barri had always taken very 
 kindly to him, and now they got greater 
 friends than ever. Lord Festiniog had said 
 to George Drummond that he would abuse 
 George to Ehyader, in order to make sure 
 that that gentleman would get to like him in 
 consequence. He did nothing of the kind, 
 however, but praised George so steadily that 
 Lord and Lady Ehyader saw much more of 
 him, and got to appreciate him. 
 
 He was very much with them after a
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 201 
 
 short time. The truth which he supposed 
 that he knew about Heloise drove him from 
 Number Seventeen almost entirely, and he 
 found in his new friends, who had been old 
 acquaintances, people much more kindly and 
 agreeable than he had ever thought. He 
 never mentioned his terrible disappointment, 
 but Lord Festiniog hinted enough about it 
 to make them pity him, and to render them 
 very kind to him. 
 
 He seemed to make a home at Fes- 
 tiniog house ; and his father approved of 
 his doing so. Drummond said that George 
 would get into good society, might make 
 a man of the world, might make useful 
 friends, might, in fact, do everything except 
 what he, Drummond, wished to be done. 
 
 What was that ? Time only can tell. 
 
 George saw his father frequently ; and 
 the more he saw of him, the more he was
 
 202 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 puzzled. His father, Drummond, who had 
 always been frank and kind to him, now 
 became a perfect sphinx. He tried to talk 
 to him about strange thing's ; things which 
 George had never heard of before. He said 
 something so very odd one day that George 
 came to the conclusion that his father was 
 getting a little mad, and that he could not 
 trust him. 
 
 It was a curious thing for a son to do 
 about his father, but he did it. He consulted 
 Lord Festiniog. He asked that gentleman 
 if he could tell him anything about his 
 grandfather. 
 
 Lord Festiniog was very loath to say 
 anything at first, and wished to change the 
 subject. But George Drummond stuck to 
 his point, and at last Lord Festiniog told him 
 the truth. 
 
 ' My dear young friend,' he said. ' Pro-
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 203 
 
 vidence afflicts in various ways. You ask 
 
 about your grandfather. Will you ask about 
 mine ? ' 
 
 ' No, my lord.' 
 
 'Very well, then, I suppose I must tell 
 you about both of them. My grandfather 
 was a hopeless criminal, a man who, in these 
 purer times, is never named. Yours, my 
 poor boy, was a lunatic, and died in Bedlam.' 
 
 ' Have you ever, my lord, seen any symp- 
 toms of lunacy in my father ? ' 
 
 ' No,' said Lord Festiniog. * Madness 
 misses a generation. It is your turn, not 
 his.' 
 
 ' I think that my turn has come, for there 
 are matters which I cannot understand.' 
 
 ' There is no doubt about that,' said 
 Lord Festiniog. ' I should conceive that 
 you were as mad as a hatter. I am not 
 excessively sane, myself: in feet, I fancy
 
 204 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 that I am going mad. Do not you think 
 that a little change would be good for you ? 
 it might keep off the disease, you know. 
 What is it, after all ? merely congenital 
 tubercular disease of the brain ; I expect 
 that I have got it. Now, we will talk no 
 more nonsense. What do you think of me, 
 George ? ' 
 
 ' I think of you — well, give me time — I 
 think of you first as a kind patron.' 
 
 ' Yes, but what more ? ' 
 
 ' What more ? ' said George Drummond, 
 ' that is a curious question. Do you mean 
 personally ? ' 
 
 ' Yes.' 
 
 ' I think of you as a very excellent 
 nobleman. As a radical myself,' he said, 
 smiling, ' I object to noblemen theoretically, 
 but I go as for as to say that I think that if 
 all noblemen were like yourself, we should
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 205 
 
 require no Reform Bills. But then, you see 
 they are not.' 
 
 ' Quite so,' said Lord Festiniog, ' you 
 will get over this radicalism in time : if you 
 do not, it will sit very pleasantly on you. 
 Well, now, I see you trust me, and will do as 
 I ask you. I want you to do something for 
 me.' 
 
 ' It is done, my lord.' 
 
 'No, it is not, George. It has to be 
 done.' 
 
 ' Mention it then.' 
 
 ' Take away this boy Barri for us. Be 
 his tutor. Get him entirely out of the way, 
 and answer for his life with your own.' 
 
 - This is very puzzling, my lord.' 
 
 ' Yes, as a matter of course it is puz- 
 zling,' said Lord Festiniog, ' you need hardly 
 remark that. I want 3*011 to take away this 
 bov, for a time, until I can see into matters.'
 
 206 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' What matters, my lord ? ' 
 
 ; I really hardly know myself,' said lie. 
 
 ' I could not do anything without my 
 father's consent, my lord.' 
 
 ' Who asked you ? I only ask you to 
 take the boy away while I deal with the 
 woman.' 
 
 ' What woman ? ' 
 
 ' I am coming to that : now, I have 
 been appealed to by two young people to 
 break a matter to you, and ask your confi- 
 dence. You had reason to suspect that a 
 flirtation was on between D'Arcy and 
 Heloise.' 
 
 ' How could you know that ? ' 
 
 ' Rachel, the spy and confidant, saw you 
 coming from D'Arcy 's room on one occasion. 
 She informed them of the fact, ancl, after con- 
 siderable deliberation, they came to me as 
 one having some weight, and asked me to
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 207 
 
 break the truth to you. They were married 
 in Paris lour months ago.' 
 
 ' Married ! And does Mrs. Arnaud 
 know ? ' 
 
 ' Not a word. I am to have the inestim- 
 able privilege of telling her, when Mrs. 
 D'Arey overcomes her almost unreasonable 
 repugnance to my doing so.' 
 
 ' Well ! ' he said with a sigh, ' I am glad 
 that she was honest, But, however, the 
 sooner I am away, the better.' 
 
 ' I am glad that yon see that. She is a 
 good young woman, of whom yon should 
 never think again. I don't exactly see, now, 
 that I know all, what there is in her ; but she 
 drives the young fellows mad.' 
 
 1 Well ! ' 
 
 ' " Well," is not much to say to a man in 
 my position. You should say, "Well, my 
 lord," or, " I profoundly appreciate and
 
 2o8 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 esteem your lordship's confidence," or, " you 
 are an old noodle and are frightening your- 
 self about nothing : " anything but " well." ' 
 
 ' I don't know what you are driving at, 
 my lord.' 
 
 ' How, on earth, can I tell you if I do 
 not know myself? I cannot confide to 
 Ehyader and his wife, they would either 
 laugh at me, or have a series of fits, or do 
 something or another ridiculous. I want 
 the boy taken away, and I want you to do 
 it.' 
 
 ' Is there any danger to him ? ' 
 
 ' I think so. I have received anony- 
 mous letters which puzzle me. It seems a 
 very strange thing for an old man like my- 
 self to tell you in broad daylight, in this 
 most prosaic and, I might say, police-ridden 
 town, London — but I fear that the boy's life is 
 in danger.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 209 
 
 ' That is very strange. My dear lord, 
 you must have some reason for speaking. 
 Is it not some scheme to extort money ? ' 
 
 ' Why, apparently not : that is one of the 
 puzzles of it : not a stiver of money has 
 been demanded of me. I am only warned 
 that the boy's life is in danger, and that he 
 had better be <?ot out of London.' 
 
 ' But no one can have any interest in the 
 boy's harm. It seems absurd to ask, but 
 you positively have no other heir ? ' 
 
 ' None. The boy Barri is the last descen- 
 dant, in the main line, of the sister of Giraldus 
 Cambrensis. The title is extinct with him, 
 and the estates might be left by Ehyader to 
 build a church if anything happened to 
 Barri.' 
 
 ' I fancy — only fancy — this, Lord Festin- 
 iog. There must be some collateral branch, 
 the representatives of which are unscrupulous. 
 
 VOL. I. P
 
 2io NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 Some conscientious person lias found out 
 what they aim at, and has warned you.' 
 
 ' Man ! man ! there is no collateral 
 branch. The head of the Barrys might try 
 some wild claim, but he and all his family 
 are pre-eminently respectable, and besides 
 we have not been even related for three 
 hundred years.' 
 
 ' Some old charter may exist,' said 
 George Drummond. 
 
 That answers itself. If that is the case, 
 why was the claim not made on my acces- 
 sion, or whv is it not made now ? ' 
 
 That seemed unanswerable. George 
 Drummond resumed the conversation by 
 saying : — 
 
 ' Well, Lord Festiniog, I am deeply 
 attached to Barri, and he to me. I will 
 take him anywhere you like, and leave you 
 and Lord Ehyader to solve the mystery, for 
 I am fairly puzzled. Where shall we go ? '
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 211 
 
 ' Take him to France and teach him the 
 language, or indeed, anywhere you like. As 
 for money, I find that,' 
 
 1 Will Lord Ehyader not object?' 
 
 ' Why no,' said Lord Festiniog, rubbing 
 his chin. 'The fact is that Barri is too 
 lively for them, when he is at home, and I 
 fancy that they would not object to have him 
 elsewhere. They have no vitality, and Barri 
 has too much. There will be no difficulty 
 there, particularly as I pay. Ehyader is a 
 screw, and if he can give his boy a foreign 
 tour for nothing, he is the very man to 
 acquiesce. She won't offer any opposition I 
 warrant you. But mind that you and I are 
 in entire confidence : not a word of what I 
 have said to you must escape your mouth.' 
 
 ' You may trust me entirely,' said George 
 Drummond ; and so the thing was settled. 
 
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 212 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 TUTOR AND PUPIL. 
 
 ' Barri,' said George to him as he met him 
 at the door next morning, I want to speak 
 to yon very seriously ; what are yon learn- 
 ing at school ? ' 
 
 Barri enumerated all human knowledge 
 as given in the celebrated summary of 
 Plato, and mentioned, moreover, French and 
 German, in addition to the accomplishments 
 of the ancient Greek philosophers : — the 
 fact being, that he knew nothing, except how 
 to ride, to swim, to row, and to fight, and 
 even those things indifferentlv. He was 
 not a fool, and tolerably diligent, but 
 he had desired to be everything and was
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 213 
 
 nothing. Lord Festmios said that he had 
 got such a smattering of everything that he 
 would make a most admirable third rate 
 debater, and would consequently come to an 
 evil end. 
 
 Georcre walked with him along the street 
 towards the Regent's Park, and insisted on 
 speaking French to him. The boy could 
 understand him after one or two repetitions, 
 but he could not answer him. 
 
 ' In your position,' said George, ' you 
 ought, at least, to have French at your fingers' 
 ends ; and you can't talk it.' 
 
 ' I could learn to talk it,' said Barri, ' if 
 I went abroad.' 
 
 ' Would you like to go abroad ? ' said 
 George. 
 
 ' Yes, I should, very much.' 
 ' Would you like to go abroad with 
 me?'
 
 214 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' That would bo too good a thing even to 
 dream of,' said Barri. 
 
 ' My boy, we all dream. I have dreamt 
 a little too much, and my dream has not 
 come true.' 
 
 ' Ay ! ' said Barri : ' you mean about 
 Heloise : but you will dream about someone 
 else some day and your dream will come 
 most perfectly true.' 
 
 ' So you think, my child. But are you 
 ready to come abroad with me ? ' 
 
 ' You are the only man I ever cared 
 about,' said Barri, ' except, of course, my 
 father and your father. But what is the use 
 of talking about it? it cannot be done. 
 Father would not mind : I don't think that 
 he can call his soul his own. Mamma would 
 not mind very much, because I know she 
 likes me to be away sometimes. She would 
 be sorry if anything happened to me, but I
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 215 
 
 am not good company for her, as I know too 
 well. Grandpa likes me and would never 
 trust me out of his sight, lie is lord and 
 master, and he would never consent for an 
 instant.' 
 
 ' But Barri,' said George, ' he desires it.' 
 
 ' All right,' said Barri, ' I have nothing 
 more to say. If he chooses to make me 
 happy, I shall offer no objection. I don't 
 believe that pa is grandpa's son.' 
 
 ' Why ? ' 
 
 ' I don't know, they are so utterly 
 different. Pa does not care so much about 
 me as grandpapa does.' 
 
 ' Well, you are not a very easy subject, 
 Barri. You are very rude.' 
 
 ' Was I ever rude to you or grandpa ? ' 
 
 'No.' 
 
 ' That was because you or grandpa were 
 never rude to me. My father and mother
 
 2i6 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 always are. Q. E. D. I should like to ^ 
 abroad with you. You will be kind to me, 
 will you not ? ' 
 
 ' Did you ever know me to be unkind ? ' 
 
 ' Why no : but you never can tell. We 
 shall get more familiar, perhaps, and shall 
 forget small civilities. I believe that my 
 father and mother are devoted to one 
 another, yet they are always quarrelling.' 
 
 ' I don't think that you are right in say- 
 ing that, Barri.' 
 
 ' Well,' said the boy, misunderstanding 
 him ; ' perhaps I am not. They never 
 quarrel, but they often disagree. She is 
 always ready to be down on him if he says 
 or does anything wrong ; and he would, at 
 times, resent it if he had the pluck. He has 
 not, you know. I have. He is always at 
 his books, and she hates his books : she can't 
 understand them. It is all very well,' con-
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 217 
 
 tinned this young schoolboy, ' talking about 
 marriage, but I consider that it is a mistake, 
 myself. My father and mother would have 
 been much better apart.' 
 
 ' I should think so, or yon would not 
 have been born.' 
 
 ' That is the kind of thing,' said Barri, 
 ' that they say to one another, and in my 
 presence too. I don't wonder at it. They 
 have neither of them got anything to do, and 
 so they quarrel. If they would both turn 
 Turk together and defy the Pope, they would 
 get on most excellently. But then, you see, 
 they will not. They spend their lives in dis- 
 agreeing about small things; if they could 
 agree about one large one, there would be 
 no happier couple in the world. I wish 
 they would both turn Soman Catholics.' 
 
 ' And why ? ' 
 
 ' Because I would not, and then they
 
 2i8 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 would have a point of agreement at my ex- 
 pense. I assure you, George Drummond, 
 that I love them, but I do not think that 
 they are very fond of me.' 
 
 ' Now Barri, you must listen to me. 
 You are coining away with me through 
 Europe as my pupil, and you must obey me 
 in every particular. You have got a little 
 habit in your little head, which must be got 
 rid of. I say must, and I will be obeyed, 
 you mind that. You are a sharp boy, a 
 most objectionable thing to begin with, and 
 you will turn out to be a sharp man, a 
 horror not to be contemplated. You are 
 beginning badly. You know a vast deal 
 more than you ought to. What you have 
 said about your father and mother is very 
 smart, but you ought never to have said it. 
 It was not gentlemanly.' 
 
 Barri looked up in his face and said : —
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 219 
 
 ' Nobody likes me. I wish that some- 
 one would. I thought that you would. 
 And I shan't die for so many years : it 
 seems hard that nobody should like me. 
 Put it to yourself, George. I have done no 
 harm, I have only spoken the truth, and yet 
 I am alone in the world. Even you have 
 gone from me. I have no one now. Yes, 
 I have aunt Arnaud. I will go to her ; ay, 
 and there is grandpa too. Let me go to 
 them.' 
 
 ' Won't you stay with me, Barri ? ' said 
 George Drummond : ' you say that you are 
 alone. Is your loneliness to be compared 
 with mine P I will be your slave if you like, 
 but don't leave me now, for I want a com- 
 panion.' 
 
 The boy was puzzled. The mentor and 
 tutor of five minutes before was, morally, at 
 his feet. He could not understand the
 
 t 
 220 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 matter at all, but his instinct told him what 
 to say and to do. 
 
 ' George Drummond,' he said, ' be my 
 friend and make a man of me. I will follow 
 you anywhere, and do anything which you 
 tell me. But you must not bully me. I 
 have had too much of that, and am in rebel- 
 lion. Go anywhere and I will follow 
 you. You are the best friend I have ever 
 made in my life. Take my hand, and let 
 us go where you will.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 221 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 CONFIDENCE BETWEEN MRS. ARNAUD AND 
 GEORGE DRUMMOND. 
 
 George Drummond went about London that 
 afternoon, making enquiries about steamboats, 
 outfits, expenses, and so on. He arrived 
 about nine before No. 17, without the 
 wildest idea of any result in his head. He 
 had been thinking continually about Barri, 
 and had neglected to put his latch-key in 
 its proper place, and so, when lie arrived 
 before the door he had to knock. 
 
 The door was opened by Rachel, who 
 promptly informed him that Mrs. Arnaud 
 desired to see him at once. 
 
 Why ? Who could tell ? He was so 
 thoroughly puzzled by the day's pro-
 
 222 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ceeclinors, that he did not much- care. But 
 he had an instinct that a new mine was 
 going to he exploded under his feet. He 
 went into the bark parlour, in which he 
 understood that good lady was, and she 
 saved him all trouble. 
 
 ' Mr. Drummond,' she said, ' do yon 
 know anything about this ? ' 
 
 ' My dear Mrs. Arnaud,' he said, ' you 
 are the very woman I should have wished to 
 speak to about this painful and I think 
 absurd matter. You must hold me blame- 
 less.' 
 
 ' Undoubtedly. I never suspected you 
 for an instant. The plot was executed 
 before poor silly people, like you and 
 myself, knew anything about it.' 
 
 ' Executed ! Mrs. Arnaud. You are out of 
 your mind. There is no fear as long as I 
 am alive of such a tiling happening.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEX. 223 
 
 'It is done, however,' said Mrs. Arnaud. 
 
 ' Now, make your mind easy, my dear 
 madam. Assassinations are more often 
 talked of than done. Eead history, and see 
 how seldom they succeed. Out of my own 
 reading I could give you ten instances, and 
 by going to the London Library, I could 
 give you twenty more. The boy is perfectly 
 
 ' I do not understand you, Mr. Drum- 
 mond. Of what are you speaking ? ' 
 
 ' Why, of the proposed murder of Barri, 
 of course. I fancied that you knew all 
 about it, but I suppose I have let the cat out 
 of the bag ? ' 
 
 ' The murder of Barri,' said Mrs. 
 Arnaud. ' Have you been drinking, Mr. 
 Drummond ? No, I withdraw that enquiry, 
 you never do. Who can possibly want to 
 assassinate Barri? '
 
 224 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 ' Oh ! no one,' said George, ' I was mad ; 
 but I am not so now. Possibly yon will 
 tell me what is the matter ; I thought that 
 yon had a cine to something else. Now, 
 go on.' 
 
 'Yon were very much attracted by 
 Heloise, were yon not ? ' 
 
 ' Certainly ! ' 
 
 ' She has been married to D'Arcy these 
 four months. That is all.' 
 
 ' Exactly. Well, I have known that 
 since the morning, and I am not dead.' 
 
 'Who told yon?' 
 
 ' Lord Festiniog.' 
 
 'Who told him?' 
 
 'They told him themselves, by the 
 advice, I believe, of Eachel, who was their 
 confidant.' 
 
 ' Hem ! ' said Mrs. Arnand. ' Then she 
 knew. Well, they are gone away now, and
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 225 
 
 so long as you are satisfied, of course I have 
 nothing to say. You seem very easily satis- 
 lied. I hate being deceived, myself. Now, 
 we naturally come to this ridiculous non- 
 sense about the murder of Barri. What is 
 it?' 
 
 'I'll be burned alive if I can tell you. 
 There is no object for it. I have let out so 
 much that I may be as well hung for a 
 sheep as a lamb. Lord Festiniog believes 
 in it, and has asked me to take the boy 
 abroad. I am going to do so.' 
 
 Mrs. Arnaud bent her head down and 
 remained in thought for some time. Once 
 or twice, George Drummond said something- 
 but she grew impatient with him. At last 
 she said : — 
 
 k I have the key to this somewhere, but 
 I must find it, Take the bov abroad, and 
 at once, and leave everything to me. If I 
 
 VOL. I. (i
 
 226 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 seem to do anything wrong, believe the best 
 of me. I only desire to do right. I tell 
 yon, George Drnmmond, that I suspect that 
 a certain woman, whom your father and I 
 know, is at the bottom of all this. This 
 comes with other things which I am utterly 
 unable to understand. I only suspect an 
 entire impossibility. Mind, I will never 
 injure your father, only, I will do my duty 
 by the family which has, on the whole, 
 treated me so kindly and so well. Mean- 
 while kiss me, George Drnmmond, for your 
 own mother never could have loved you 
 better than I do.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 227 
 
 CHAPTEE XX. 
 
 MRS. AEXAUD TELLS A LIE TO DRUMMOND. 
 
 George and Barri went away to do the 
 torn- of the continent, together, and No. 17 
 saw them no more. D'Arcy and Heloise 
 were gone, and Mrs. Arnand was left alone 
 with Rachel. 
 
 She had never been so much alone 
 before. Rachel, ' excellent woman,' was no 
 company to her, for Mrs. Arnaud thought 
 she had been deceived by her in the matter 
 of D'Arcy's marriage ; and, besides, she was 
 not a woman who conld talk to servants. 
 In her old semi-religions life she had always 
 
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 228 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 had someone to talk to, and to confide in : 
 now, she had no one except Lord Festiniog. 
 She was even deprived of him now, for a 
 change of ministry occurred, and he was, to 
 his own astonishment, and that of the world, 
 asked to take a rather high position. He 
 came to her one night and told her that he 
 did not think they would last a month : 
 ' fancy,' he said, ' putting me in office, and 
 passing over Ehyader. I don't know anything 
 about it. I can speak a little ; but I never 
 attended to politics. I suppose you see 
 that James Drummond is going into parlia- 
 ment: that is a new idea. Have you seen 
 him ? ' 
 
 ' Why no,' said Mrs. Arnaud, ' his elec- 
 tion has made him very busy. I shall see 
 him in a day or two. Any news from Barri, 
 and his son ? ' 
 
 ' Yes, nothing but good, they seem to
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 229 
 
 get on charmingly together, and they arc 
 going to the South of Italy.' 
 
 ' I will get their address, and write to 
 George Drummond. He might go and see 
 my poor child's grave at Eavenna.' 
 
 'Well thought of, Mary, but I won't 
 have the boy taken there. It is an un- 
 healthy hole of a place.' 
 
 'I hate the name of it,' said Mrs. 
 Arnaud, ' but George Drummond w T ould, I 
 know, go there and lay a wreath on the 
 little child's breast.' 
 
 ' Surely he would. By the bye, that 
 woman wdio was with you there, is 
 now living with Drummond as his house- 
 keeper.' 
 
 ' Is she ? I do not care to see her. She 
 recalls the most miserable time of my life. 
 Yet, I liked her, too, she w T as very kind to 
 me.'
 
 230 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 1 If you go to see him you will have to 
 see her, but I wish you would go.' 
 
 ' It shall be clone.' And so they sepa- 
 rated. 
 
 Drummond had now taken a furnished 
 house in Wilton Crescent for a year, as 
 befitted a member of parliament. He also 
 had an establishment corresponding to the 
 house ; and so when Mrs. Arnaud knocked 
 at his door one Sunday afternoon, she was 
 admitted by a butler, with a footman to 
 match, and saw nothing of the dreaded 
 housekeeper. 
 
 He thought that it was some other 
 person, and came out of the dining room 
 into the hall, before they had time to shew 
 her into the drawing room. He said ' good 
 heavens,' and she went into the dining 
 room before him. 
 
 His lunch was not cleared away, and
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 231 
 
 there was a decanter three quarters empty 
 by his plate. She had a dim suspicion that 
 lie had been sitting there, alone, drinking. 
 She did not see any signs of it in his manner, 
 but still she thought so. She said at once, 
 ' You and I are old acquaintance enough to 
 allow me a liberty, Drummond. As we are 
 alone, let me have a glass of wine.' 
 
 ' Bring sonic sherry at once for Mrs. 
 Arnaud,' he said to the butler. 
 
 ' Nay, I will take some of what you 
 have there,' she said. 
 
 ' Bring the brown sherry directly, and 
 don't stand staring there,' was his answer to 
 the butler, who went away. 
 
 ' Sit down, Mrs. Arnaud, I cannot tell 
 you the pleasure I have in seeing you.' 
 
 ' Drummond,' she said, sitting down, 
 ' that is brandy that you are drinking, and 
 there is not a drop of water on the table.
 
 232 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 I don't want any wine ; I only asked for i 
 to enable me to let yon know that I see 
 what yon drink.' 
 
 ' Why should I not drink brandy ? ' he 
 said coolly, sitting opposite to her. ' I have 
 nothing left to live for in the world.' 
 
 * Yonr son.' 
 
 ' Oh, that fellow. Yes, but he would be 
 better off if I was dead, would he not ? 
 
 ' There are a few friends who care 
 enough about you, still, to be sorry to see 
 you drink.' 
 
 ' Do you care about me, then ? ' 
 
 ' I do, indeed, I assure you that I do. I 
 think you used me ill once, but I have for- 
 gotten that. I think you behaved like a bad 
 man to me in saying what you did, when 
 you were married.' 
 
 ' I was not married at that time, 
 Mary.'
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEX. 233 
 
 ' My good friend, you know that you 
 
 were.' 
 
 ' I will swear that I was not, though, and 
 I will swear that I was never married in my 
 
 life.' 
 
 ' That only makes matters worse then ; 
 but. I have not come here to discuss your 
 private affairs. I come to consult you.' 
 
 ' As a friend ? ' 
 
 ' Scarcely as an enemy, or I should not 
 be here at all.' 
 
 ' Can I ever be more than a friend to 
 
 you, Mary ? ' 
 
 She let him call her so ; she did worse ; 
 she did what never could be excused ; she 
 said : — 
 
 ' It is not a time to talk about that. I 
 do not say but that it might be possible in 
 the future.' 
 
 What were her motives in telling such a
 
 234 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 
 
 falsehood? She had as much idea of 
 marrying the man as she had of marrying 
 Lord Festiniog. Her motives were not high, 
 we fear. She liked being admired by the 
 man ; she liked to see her power over him ; 
 and her curiosity was strong. She suspected 
 that lie knew something which she desired 
 to know, or that, at all events he could 
 iind it out for her, and so oblige Lord 
 Festiniog whom she liked very much : there 
 was simply no other motive for her leading 
 the wretched man on. And yet, the usual 
 tenor of that woman's life had been be- 
 fore, and was again, perfectly truthful and 
 loyal. 
 
 ' I will die for you, Mary, if you choose.' 
 ' I do not desire that, I want your 
 advice and your assistance, that is all.' 
 
 ' They are freely given. May I kiss 
 your hand? '
 
 NUMBER SEVENTEEN. 235 
 
 She thought, and said, ' No.' 
 
 ' That will be for the future I hope,' he 
 said. ' Now, let me know what you wish.' 
 
 ' Well then, Lord Festiniog seems to me 
 a little mad.' 
 
 ' Well, he will make a good mess in 
 office, but he is certainly sane' 
 
 ' Well, you know best. He says that 
 someone wants to kill Barri, and that is why 
 he has sent him away with George/ 
 
 ' That is very odd,' he said, looking 
 straight at her. ' Who, on earth, could pos- 
 sibly want to kill the boy ? ' 
 
 ' I thought that you might find out,' she 
 
 said. 
 
 ' Do you wish it found out ? ' said he. 
 
 ' I do, very much. Can you find it out 
 if you choose ? ' 
 
 4 My dear Mary, all things can be found 
 out if people choose to give information. If
 
 236 NUMBER SEVENTEEN 
 
 I find this out, shall I stand more highly 
 
 with you ? ' 
 
 1 Indeed you would, but I commit myself 
 
 to nothing.' 
 
 ' Not at all. I will go to work.' 
 ' I thank you.' And so she went. 
 
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