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 BY 
 
 MARY ANGELA DICKENS 
 
 AUTHOR OF "cross CURRENTS." 
 
 Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound 
 Reverbs no hoUowness." 
 
 IN THREE VOLUMES 
 Vol. I. 
 
 MACMILLAN & CO. 
 
 AND NEW YORK 
 
 1893
 
 CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS, 
 CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.
 
 
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 2 TAis Story has been published in Serial form ^nder 
 the title *' A Modern Judith.^' It is now republished 
 under the title originally intended for it by the Author. 
 
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 CHAPTER I. 
 
 All day long, from heavy February skies, 
 drizzling rain had fallen, and now that 
 evening was closing in it was falling faster 
 than ever. There was no break to be 
 seen anywhere in the grey clouds, and 
 daylight was giving place at least an hour 
 before its time to that most dreary twilight 
 w^hich is, in part, the coming on of evening 
 and, in part, the darkness of a rainy day. 
 
 It was only four o'clock, and to the 
 station - master of the little station at 
 Thornsdyke — an official whose conclusions 
 
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 were adhered to with a tenacity worthy of 
 the length of time occupied in their forma- 
 tion — unseemly vagaries on the part of the 
 weather formed no good reason for any 
 such variation in the station routine as 
 would have been involved in the lighting 
 of the lamps half an hour earlier than usual. 
 No conceivable quantity of gas, not 
 even the brightest sunlight, could have 
 made of the station a cheerful spot at any 
 time ; and now, in the depressing half 
 light, it presented a m.ost prosaic and 
 unpicturesque picture of dreariness and 
 desolation. It was a very small station, 
 and it seemed to have been dropped into 
 the midst of the surrounding country with 
 no particular end in view — that is to say, 
 there were no houses, not even a cottage, 
 near at hand to suggest inhabitants to 
 whom it might be a convenience. The
 
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 surrounding country was rather flat and 
 bare. And the uninterrupted stretch of 
 dripping landscape fading away in the 
 distance into a grey blur of rain ; the un- 
 interrupted stretch of grey cloud above, 
 which seemed to be settling lower and 
 lower over the earth as though to shut 
 out such light as remained, seemed to 
 emphasize at once the insignificance and 
 the dreariness of the poor little forlorn 
 station with its two wet platforms, its two 
 diminutive buildings, and its dripping signal- 
 box. 
 
 There was not a human being to be 
 seen. The wet platforms were deserted, 
 the wet road which led to them was deserted 
 too. Nor was there any one in the waiting- 
 rooms — which were very moist inside as 
 though their constitutions were not cal- 
 culated, as indeed they were not, to with-
 
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 Stand so persistent a downpour. The porter 
 had sought refuge and companionship in 
 the signal-box, and the station-master was 
 revolving abstruse problems before the fire 
 in the little den behind the ticket office. 
 His eyes were shut. 
 
 The rain outside fell steadily and drearily, 
 and a cold, gusty wind rose and howled 
 round the station, and by-and-by the down 
 train signal fell with a dull clash. The 
 porter emerged slowly and reluctantly from 
 the signal-box, pulling up the collar of his 
 coat as he came, the station-master opened 
 his eyes and appeared in the doorway, 
 and a few minutes later the train, wet and 
 dreary-looking like everything else, steamed 
 slowly up. 
 
 Nobody had arrived along the road 
 prepared to get in, and for a moment — as 
 the porter, standing as well under cover
 
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 as might be, called out the name of the 
 station as though he were well aware that 
 the remark interested no one — it seemed 
 as though there were no one to get out. 
 Then the door of one of the first-class 
 carriages opened, far down the train, and 
 a young man got out. 
 
 The porter was exchanging comments 
 on the weather — not of a benedictory nature 
 — with the guard at the other end of tTie 
 platform ; and for a minute or two the 
 solitary arrival stood still, his tall figure in 
 its dark overcoat sharply outlined against 
 the dreary grey background of rainy land- 
 scape behind him, looking along the platform 
 in the gloomy light to where the grey 
 landscape opened out again, as though un- 
 certain what to do. Then he shifted the 
 rug he had flung over his arm into a 
 more manageable position and began to
 
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 walk Up the platform, hailing the porter as 
 he moved. 
 
 " Portmanteau in the front van ; brown ; 
 name, Strange," he said laconically, as that 
 functionary, having covered the space 
 between them in so short a space of time 
 as was only to be accounted for by his 
 intense astonishment at the sudden appear- 
 ance of so unexpected a phenomenon as a 
 first-class passenger, stood touching his cap 
 before him. And the lad turned away in 
 search of the luggage thus described, with 
 a mental comment drawn forth by some- 
 thing indescribable in the solitary traveller's 
 voice and manner. 
 
 "A real gentleman, too! Had ought 
 to have been met, I reckon." 
 
 He turned his head, partly to take 
 another look at the real gentleman, and 
 partly to look along the deserted road for
 
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 the carriage which, as he expressed it, 
 " had ought " to have met him, and added 
 to himself: " Why don't he go under cover, 
 instead o' standing there ? Seems Hke as 
 though he didn't know it was raining ! " 
 Then with a grin at his own pleasantry, 
 Tom Wilson, commonly known in the village 
 as *^ Tom-at-the-station," dived energetically 
 into the luggage van. 
 
 But, indeed, his last comment on the 
 new-comer was by no means unreasonable. 
 A few yards from where the latter stood 
 the open door of the waiting-room offered 
 a certain amount of shelter, at least, from 
 the rain, but the traveller remained where 
 the porter had left him, his rug still over 
 his arm, his hat pulled rather forward over 
 his forehead, as if quite unconscious of his 
 own discomfort. He had not even looked 
 round to see if shelter was within reach,
 
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 and he was still standing motionless, his 
 dark overcoat shining with the fast-falling 
 raindrops, when " Tom-at-the-station," with 
 the brown portmanteau over his shoulder, 
 returned to him with increased alacrity. 
 
 " There comes the carriage, sir ! " he 
 announced cheerily, indicating the road along 
 which a dogcart, still at some distance, was 
 advancing rapidly. '' You're for the Castle, 
 sir, o' course? It's the Castle dogcart, sir!" 
 
 The traveller started and turned in- 
 stinctively, apparently to look in the 
 direction indicated. 
 
 *' The Castle ! " he said quickly, almost 
 roughly. " No, no ! I'm not for the 
 Castle." He paused, and then as though 
 movement and speech had waked him to 
 full consciousness, he said : '* There is no 
 one here to meet me then, I suppose ? 
 No one from Dr. Custance ? "
 
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 There was something rather strange 
 about the manner in which the last words 
 were spoken. The traveller's voice, which 
 was young and pleasant, became a trifle 
 hard and constrained as he spoke them 
 with a somewhat overdone assumption of 
 unconcern, and the effect of the words 
 themselves upon the porter was no less 
 perceptible. '' Tom-at-the-station " withdrew 
 his eyes suddenly from the advancing dog- 
 cart and fixed them on the figure by his 
 side with as much change of expression as 
 his face was capable of. 
 
 *' Dr. Custance ? '' he said. " Oh, you're 
 for Dr. Custance's, sir ? " 
 
 " I said so, didn't I ? " was the response, 
 given with a sudden flash of anger as hot 
 as it was apparently unprovoked. " Now, 
 what's my best way to get there? I don't 
 want to stay here all night ! I suppose
 
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 there's no way of getting a conveyance in 
 this confounded hole ? " 
 
 By this time Tom had become aware 
 that his superior was watching the colloquy 
 with a slow curiosity from the door of the 
 waiting-room, and motives of policy urged 
 him to share the interest of the position. 
 His expression showed that it was a keen 
 interest. 
 
 " You'd better speak to the station- 
 master, sir," he said, with a glance at 
 the portly form in the narrow doorway. 
 *' Mr. Moore, he'll know what you'd ought 
 to do." 
 
 The young man turned as though to 
 put the suggestion into effect, and then he 
 stopped suddenly and, turning away from 
 both porter and station - master, stooped 
 down to turn up his trousers. " You can 
 ask him," he said, and Tom, without
 
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 waiting for a second bidding, moved hastily 
 away with the alacrity of one who has news 
 to impart. 
 
 He had just made his communication 
 in a gruff whisper, as though some motive 
 of delicacy made him desirous that it 
 should not reach the ears of the traveller, 
 when the advancing dogcart was pulled up 
 suddenly at the station gate, and putting 
 the brown portmanteau hastily down* in 
 the waiting-room he hurried out to meet 
 it, leaving the traveller and the station- 
 m.aster alone together. There was a 
 moment's pause. The young man, to 
 whose ears two words of " Tom-at-the- 
 station's " whisper had penetrated — " the 
 doctor's " — was standing, again apparently 
 with no consciousness of the rain which 
 was being dashed against him now by a 
 sudden gust of wind, his back to the
 
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 waiting-room door, and as much as could 
 be seen of his face between the coat 
 collar he had pulled up and the hat he 
 had pulled down, white and set. The 
 station-master, a man of mind, according 
 to his fellow-villagers, was also a man of 
 deliberation, and a minute or two elapsed 
 before he said, as though he were advan- 
 cing an incontrovertible discovery of his 
 own : 
 
 *' You're for the doctor's ? " 
 
 " Yes." 
 
 " They ain't met you ? '* 
 
 *' No." 
 
 The monosyllabic answers were given 
 in a restrained tone which seemed to in- 
 dicate that the temper which had flashed 
 out upon Tom Wilson was only undei 
 temporary control ; and the negative was 
 followed by a silence. The silence was
 
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 broken by ** Tom-at-the-station," returned 
 as hastily as he had departed. 
 
 " It's Mr. Edward!" he said, addressing 
 his superior, with a backward glance to 
 where a good-looking young man on the 
 box - seat of the dogcart was restraining 
 the impatience of the horse whilst the 
 groom made some arrangements behind. 
 " He's driven down for that there box 
 from London. How'd it be to tell him 
 as how they haven't met the gentleman ? 
 He'll pass the doctor's on his way, and I 
 reckon he'd save the gentleman the five 
 miles' walk, such a night as this." 
 
 Tom had lowered his voice and put up 
 a rough hand as a shield to his words, 
 with a side - glance at the straight back 
 of the traveller, as he made the suggestion 
 tentatively enough ; but before he could 
 receive from the station-master the rebuke
 
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 he evidently half expected, the young man 
 had turned suddenly upon him. 
 
 " You will do no such thing ! " he said, 
 almost fiercely. '' I prefer to walk." He 
 looked for an instant toward the cheery 
 young fellow on the dogcart, and then 
 drew suddenly back out of the line of 
 sight as though anxious to avoid any 
 possibility of such an invitation as Tom 
 Wilson had suggested for him. 
 
 Station - master and porter alike con- 
 templated him with open-mouthed astonish- 
 ment, broken in upon the next instant by 
 sounds of departure from the dogcart, and, 
 that interlude over, they were free once 
 more to concentrate upon him their un- 
 divided attention. The train which had 
 brought the stranger had steamed slowly 
 on its way some minutes earlier, the dog- 
 cart, taking a sharp turn, disappeared from
 
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 sight, and the little station resumed its 
 previous appearance of dreary, dripping 
 quiet, but for the little group of men that 
 now stood on the platform. The station- 
 master and his assistant did not apparently 
 find themselves prepared to offer any 
 further suggestions or to do anything but 
 gaze curiously at the young man in the 
 dark overcoat, and after a moment's pause 
 the silence was broken by the latter. 
 
 " Which Is my best way ? " he enquired 
 tersely. 
 
 ** You'll find It a good step, sir.'* 
 
 " Which Is the best way ? " 
 
 " Well," began the station-master im- 
 pressively, and then, apparently considering 
 that the directions he was prepared to 
 give would be too weighty for the mental 
 capacity of the recipient, he turned to his 
 subordinate and said : *' Tom, you just take
 
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 the gentleman to the gate and put him in 
 the way to the doctor's." 
 
 Almost before the last word was uttered 
 the traveller had turned and was walking 
 down the platform to the little wicket-gate, 
 and Tom, with another tug at the collar of 
 his coat for some protection against the 
 rain, followed him hastily. The directions 
 as given by him were neither long nor 
 complicated. 
 
 " It's pretty straight nigh all the way, 
 your road, sir," he finished. *' But it's a 
 bad road an' no mistake — particular towards 
 the end." 
 
 The young man laughed — a low, harsh 
 laugh. 
 
 ^' So I've heard," he said, and " Tom- 
 at-the-station " wished that his face was 
 not so invisible between the dim light, 
 his coat collar, and his hat. "So I've
 
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 heard. Thanks; good evening!" And he 
 was striding out on to the muddy apology 
 for a path when Tom Wilson stopped 
 him. 
 
 *' Beg pardon, sir," he said, "but won't 
 you leave your rug and have it sent up 
 with the luggage ? " 
 
 Pulling up suddenly and glancing down 
 at his arm, the young man seemed to 
 become aware for the first time that he 
 still carried his heavy rug. 
 
 "Thanks!" he said, as he gave it 
 into Tom Wilson's hands, and then his 
 hand went into his waistcoat pocket and 
 out again towards Tom. '* Good night, 
 my man," he said, in the pleasant tone 
 in which he had first spoken, and which 
 had elicited the porter's first approving 
 comment. 
 
 " Thank ye, sir. Good night to you 1 " 
 
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 responded " Tom - at - the - station." He 
 lingered a minute or two, in spite of the 
 rain, watching the receding figure, and 
 then he turned and ran back to where 
 the station-master still stood in the waiting- 
 room doorway. He did not return to his 
 refuge in the signal-box. Apparently a 
 common subject of interest had arisen 
 between him and his superior, for they 
 disappeared together into the warm little 
 fire-lighted den behind the ticket office, 
 and the little wet platforms lay once more 
 wet and deserted in the fast-falling rain 
 and the fading light.
 
 CHAPTER 11. 
 
 The rain was blown in his face by the 
 wind, the puddles through which he passed 
 splashed up round him as the quick drops 
 pattered in them, but the young man kept 
 on his way with no more apparent con- 
 sciousness of the active discomforts of his 
 present position than he had shown in 
 his passivity on the platform. Out in the 
 open with the straight road stretching in 
 front, and a rain-blurred expanse of country 
 on either side ; with a cold wind howling 
 and shuddering in the few creaking, swaying 
 trees ; with twilight closing in with every 
 moment — the dreariness was indescribable. 
 
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 But the young man strode along, never 
 varying his heavy, regular movement, never 
 moving his hands from the pockets into 
 which he had thrust them, looking neither 
 to the right nor to the left. He had 
 covered three miles in the same heavy 
 absorption, when the road before him 
 suddenly branched off to right and left, 
 and he pulled up abruptly. 
 
 "Right or left?" he said to himself 
 "Which did the fellow say? Wasn't I 
 attending, or — memory going, I suppose." 
 
 By this time it was nearly dusk, and 
 though, as he stood there looking keenly 
 along each of the roads before him, certain 
 words spoken by " Tom - at - the - station " 
 concerning landmarks came back to him, 
 it was impossible to distinguish any object 
 that was not in the immediate foreground. 
 " Confound it all ! " he said to himself,
 
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 as he gazed at the two roads before him, 
 and back at the one along which he had 
 come, in a perplexity which their appearance 
 in no way helped to lighten. **What am 
 I to do ? The village must be somewhere 
 near. I suppose I must go on till I meet 
 some one or come to a cottage. Hullo!" 
 He was moving slowly forward with a 
 backward glance over his shoulder when 
 he uttered his concluding exclamation and 
 stood still again. Coming towards him 
 through the dusk, slouching through the 
 mud and rain with heavy, tired footsteps, 
 was a man with a carpenter's basket slung 
 over his shoulder, and turning towards 
 him the traveller stood waiting, evidently 
 intending to ask his way. Nearer and 
 nearer came the footsteps ; the man came 
 up to him, cast on him the dull, uninterested 
 glance of the unintelligent countryman, and
 
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 passed on ; passed on unquestioned. The 
 question the traveller had waited to put 
 found no utterance when the time for 
 words came, and the slouching footsteps 
 dying away in the distance left him once 
 more alone with his perplexity. They 
 had quite died away before he moved, 
 and, pushing his hat from his forehead 
 for a moment with a strangely despairing 
 gesture, only to pull it further over his 
 forehead again, he strode suddenly forward, 
 choosing his road evidently at random and 
 taking that to the right. 
 
 Half an hour more passed and he was 
 still striding along an apparently endless 
 road, by this time in nearly total darkness, 
 when he stopped again and turned his 
 head as if to listen. "What a fool I 
 was ! " he said to himself bitterly. ** Why 
 couldn't I ask the fellow.^" He listened
 
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 again. " Wheels ! " he said to himself. 
 "Now, Norman Strange, no more con- 
 founded humbug ! " 
 
 He drew back to the side of the road 
 and stood there, with his hands thrust 
 once more into his pockets, as the lamp 
 of what seemed to be a spring-cart appeared 
 round a turn of the road and came nearer 
 and nearer at a good round pace, the 
 wheels and the tread of the horse making 
 a swishing sound in the mud. It was 
 still some yards distant from him when he 
 called out : 
 
 ** Hullo, there I Is this the road to 
 Thornsdyke village ? " 
 
 There was no answer. The lights came 
 on until they were close to him ; then they 
 stopped, and a clear, strong girl's voice 
 called back as a gust of wind caught the 
 trees near and howled wildly through them :
 
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 " What part of the village do you 
 want ? " 
 
 It was a light spring-cart, and the young 
 man could see, now that they were close to 
 him, that its only occupants were two women. 
 They were cloaked and waterproofed until 
 it was impossible to judge of their figures, 
 but as the young man, lifting his hat, 
 stepped forward hastily, the light from the 
 lamp fell on the face of the one who was 
 driving. It was the face of a singularly 
 handsome girl, so brilliant in colouring, with 
 its bright complexion, luxuriant, reddish 
 brown hair, and large, brilliant dark eyes as 
 to be almost startling, set in such sombre 
 surroundings. 
 
 " Where are you going to ? " she de- 
 manded peremptorily, and her accent and 
 tone, like her beauty, were essentially of the 
 people.
 
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 " Pardon me for stopping you ! " he said. 
 ** I have walked from the station, and I 
 must have missed my way, I think. Can 
 you tell me the way to Dr. Custance's 
 house ? " 
 
 Again, evidently in spite of himself, his 
 tone altered as he spoke the last words, and 
 as it had come to the porter's face and man- 
 ner, so a change came to the face and 
 manner of the girl whose flashing black eyes 
 were fixed now upon the figure before her 
 — soaked by this time through and through. 
 
 " Dr. Custance ! " she repeated. " Oh ! " 
 She paused and looked him curiously up and 
 down as though she would have liked, as the 
 porter would have liked, to see the face so 
 obstinately concealed. " You're not far," 
 she continued. " Take the first turning to 
 your right and you'll come to the house 
 in a few minutes. It's about a mile."
 
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 " Thank you." 
 
 Not raising his face to her as he did it, 
 the young man stepped back to let the cart 
 go on its way. But the girl had caught a 
 glimpse of a white, good-looking young 
 face. With a slight glance at her com- 
 panion — a much older woman — she said 
 quickly : 
 
 ** Won't you have a lift ? We're passing 
 the house, and it's a poor night for walk- 
 ing." 
 
 " Thanks, no I prefer to walk." 
 
 He lifted his hat again and turned to 
 proceed on his way as the girl, with an 
 injured toss at once of her head and the 
 reins she held, put the pony she drove into 
 its former sober trot. The young man 
 did not hear her comment to her companion as 
 the cart passed him, nor did he hear the 
 response :
 
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 " Just come down !" 
 
 " Poor young fellow ! " 
 
 He fell once more into his heavy, 
 regular stride, and ten minutes later he had 
 groped his way through a garden gate that 
 seemed as it swung back to do so on but one 
 hinge, had passed between dripping, sighing 
 trees up to a house with a light in one of 
 the lower windows only, and was ringing 
 the bell. 
 
 There was no response to his first peal. 
 He heard the sound of the bell reverberate 
 apparently in empty premises and die 
 away into silence ; he waited a minute or 
 two and then he rang again. This time 
 sounds in the house followed, and a moment 
 later the door was opened by a rather untidy 
 maid-servant. 
 
 " I am Mr. Strange," said the young- 
 man, in a hard, constrained tone, moving
 
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 past her as he spoke into the dimly-lighted 
 little hall. " Is Dr. Custance in ? " 
 
 Apparently the house was not remark- 
 able for the thickness of its walls for, as he 
 asked the question, a door at the end of the 
 hall opened quickly, and a tall, fair man 
 came out hastily. 
 
 " Mr. Strange !" he exclaimed. " I had 
 no expectation of seeing you to-night. I am 
 delighted! My dear fellow," he added, as 
 he shook hands with his visitor with a 
 warmth which found no response in the 
 young man's hand-clasp, " my dear fellow, 
 you are wet through ! Is it possible that 
 you have walked from the station ? Come 
 to the fire in my smoking-room and let me 
 understand how such a wretched misunder- 
 standing has come about. I am more sorry 
 than I can say ! " 
 
 " The fault was mine, no doubt!" returned
 
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 29 
 
 the young man courteously, though his voice 
 was hard and constrained. " Thanks, if 
 you don't mind I think I will go to my room 
 at once and get rid of these wet things." 
 
 Dr. Custance turned to the servant who 
 was still standing by. 
 
 '* Is Mr. Strangers room ready, Ellen ? " 
 he said. *' You know, the one at the end of 
 the passage — next to Mr. Caton's." 
 
 " There ain't no bed made up," was the 
 response given, with a mixture of confusion 
 and alacrity. " Nor no water, nor nothing, 
 but " 
 
 ** Take up what is wanted at once," re- 
 turned her master ; *' and bring a lamp, 
 quickly. Or, stay, I will take this," lifting 
 an oil lamp from the hall table as he spoke. 
 ** This way, Mr. Strange, please." 
 
 He led the way up a staircase, as dimly 
 lighted as was the hall, and the young man
 
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 followed him along a passage until he opened 
 a door. 
 
 ** This is your room," he said. " I am 
 so sorry it is not more comfortably prepared 
 to receive you, I suppose the post office is 
 at the bottom of the mistake ? " 
 
 " My letter must have missed the post," 
 answered the young man in the same con- 
 strained tone — a tone that contrasted 
 strangely with the easy pleasantness of his 
 host. " I wrote to you yesterday, but " — he 
 paused a moment — " I was late, I know, in 
 posting it." 
 
 Dr. Custance received the explanation 
 with a smile. 
 
 *'Well, the only thing to be done is 
 to make you as comfortable as possible 
 now that you are here," he said. '' What 
 can I lend you ? We are much of a size, 
 are we not ? "
 
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 They faced one another on the words, 
 and, as though glad, each in a different 
 way, to take advantage of the opportunity, 
 looked one another over; the elder man 
 with keen curiosity, the younger with a 
 heavy, almost painful, momentary interest. 
 They were, as Dr. Custance had said, almost 
 exactly the same height, but the differences 
 between them in breadth and build were 
 very marked. Dr. Custance was a man 
 apparently of about five-and-forty, rather 
 broad in build, and with a certain 
 looseness and absence of sharp outline 
 about him that suggested an inactive life. 
 His face was very handsome ; long in 
 shape, with admirably cut features and 
 rather indolent grey eyes. The mouth was 
 hidden by a long, fair moustache. The 
 younger man, now that he was divested 
 of his dark overcoat, was an active, well-
 
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 made figure, with a capital carriage, but 
 rather too thin. The hands, too — strong, 
 nervous-looking hands — were thinner than 
 a young man's hands should be, and his 
 face was absolutely haggard. His hair was 
 dark, and the contrast seemed to heighten 
 his extreme pallor; his eyes, sunken now, 
 and with heavy shadows beneath them, were 
 dark, too. He wore neither beard nor 
 moustache, and his features were rather 
 irregular. It was a good face, however, 
 in spite of the expression of heavy, almost 
 sullen, stiffness and self-restraint. It sat 
 oddly and most unnaturally upon it, and 
 seemed to battle all the time with something 
 in his eyes which was, or might have been 
 if he had allowed himself expression, some- 
 thing strangely pitiful. 
 
 The battle of expression went on in 
 the new-comer's face during all his host's
 
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 offers of dry clothes, daring all the little 
 stir and movement attending the production 
 by the agitated maid of the various toilet 
 necessaries, and it was going on still when 
 Dr. Custance, telling him that supper would 
 be ready at half-past eight, finally shut the 
 door and left him. 
 
 He stood for a moment motionless, look- 
 ing towards the door as though realising the 
 fact that he was alone; and then his eyes 
 wandered slowly round the room — a bare and 
 rather dingy room which the servant's hurried 
 efforts had failed to make either comfortable 
 or attractive. His glance rested for a moment 
 on the dreary paper, the worn carpet, the 
 shabby, scanty furniture, the empty grate, 
 without apparently taking in anything that he 
 saw. Then he walked in a mechanical, pre- 
 occupied way across the room, as though to lay 
 something down on the table there. He stood 
 
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 Still and put out his hand, and then quite 
 suddenly Jie dropped heavily into a chair 
 that stood by, and, laying his arms on the 
 table, let his head fall forward on them 
 with a low, despairing groan. Time passed 
 on, and still he sat there motionless, his 
 face buried in his arms. Nearly an hour 
 had gone by when the sound of a bell 
 ringing downstairs startled him suddenly 
 to his feet, and, as he moved, the expression 
 of misery, which softened his face and made 
 it most pathetic and attractive, changed 
 suddenly into a hard, fierce recklessness, 
 which altered the whole man indescribably 
 for the worse. Such changes in his dress 
 as were absolutely necessary he made hastily 
 and roughly, but he did nothing further, 
 and his whole appearance as he laid his 
 hand on the door was strangeiv uncared 
 for and disorderly. He caught sight of
 
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 himself in the looking-glass as he turned 
 to leave the room, and his mouth grew 
 harder and more bitterly reckless. 
 
 " What does it matter ? " he muttered to 
 himself. *' What does anything matter, now ? " 
 
 He opened the door and went rapidly 
 downstairs, pausing as he reached the bottom 
 as if in uncertainty. Then he caught sight 
 of an open door leading into a lighted room 
 and went towards it. He passed across 
 the threshold and stopped short. 
 
 It was a drawing-room, small and not 
 particularly well or tastefully furnished, but 
 looking in the warm light of a bright little 
 fire and shaded lamp very pretty and com- 
 fortable. There was a piano at the further 
 end, several little feminine odds and ends 
 were strewn about, and on a low chair near the 
 fire, her back towards the young man as he 
 stood in the doorway, sat a lady. 
 
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 36 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 For a second or two the young man 
 hesitated, and the reckless hardness of his 
 face was touched by a mixed expression of 
 astonishment and annoyance. Then he 
 came slowly into the room, and at the sound 
 of his footstep the lady turned with a 
 nervous start and rose hastily. 
 
 "How do you do?" she said, holding 
 out her hand nervously. 
 
 With the ready, deferential courtesy of a 
 well-bred man, which sat oddly upon his 
 disorderly figure, the young man shook 
 hands with her and made the conventional 
 response in a manner in which the natural 
 instinct of the man seemed to break through 
 the hard, almost sullen constraint which had 
 grown upon him with every moment that 
 had passed since his arrival. 
 
 The lady before him was a litde woman, 
 dressed in an old black silk dress that was
 
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 neither fashionable nor becoming. She had a 
 small, worn, faded face, which might once 
 have been pretty, but which in losing its 
 girlishness had gained nothing in character 
 or intellig.ence. There was no trace of 
 youthfulness about it, but neither were there 
 any of the usual signs of age — no wrinkles, 
 no crowsfeet, no grey in the smooth brown 
 hair which was drawn plainly off her face 
 and knotted behind with scrupulous neat- 
 ness, but after a fashion that suggested a 
 total absence of consideration of any other 
 effect in the wearer's mind. Her figure, 
 though the dress she wore effectually dis- 
 guised the fact, was slight and undeveloped 
 as that of a young girl. The blue eyes 
 which she lifted to the young man's face as 
 he spoke to her were so ill-assured as to be 
 almost frightened, and her manner was 
 equally ill-assured as she continued :
 
 38 A MERE CYPHER. 
 
 ** My husband will be back directly. He 
 was here a moment ago. Won't you — won't 
 you sit down ? " 
 
 " I am hardly fit to sit down in a lady's 
 drawing room, Mrs. Custance,", answered 
 the young man, regarding himself with frank 
 disapprobation. He spoke very pleasantly 
 and courteously, and with a smile, as though 
 he was altogether surprised out of the mood 
 in which he had left his bedroom ; and any 
 one who had seen him in both phases would 
 have realised that this was the man in 
 his normal condition. The sullenness and 
 the recklessness had alike disappeared com- 
 pletely, displaced, apparently, by the impulse 
 of courtesy to a lady, obviously innate, and so 
 suddenly and apparently unexpectedly called 
 upon ; and his face was very attractive under 
 its present aspect. The last words were 
 evidently spoken at a venture, and he con-
 
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 tinued quickly . *' I do hope you will excuse 
 me. I had no idea — I mean I did not 
 know — Dr. Custance has always taken it for 
 granted that I knew he was married. I am 
 afraid I have kept you waiting in the first 
 place, and in the second, I am not fit to be 
 seen." 
 
 Mrs. Custance was apparently not pre- 
 pared for such an apology. The blue eyes, 
 which were neither quick-looking nor intelli- 
 gent, glanced at the young man with a slow 
 surprise, and she murmured something in- 
 coherent as she subsided into her chair. 
 
 ** I hope my unannounced arrival this 
 evening is not inconvenient ? " went on the 
 young man, as he followed her example and 
 sat down. 
 
 " Not at all," she responded hastily and 
 deprecatingly. " I — I am sorry I was out." 
 There was a moment's pause, during which
 
 40 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 the blue eyes furtively scanned the face be- 
 fore them, and then she spoke again, 
 evidently with a nervous consciousness that 
 she ought to say something, and a nervous 
 incapacity for thinking of the right thing to 
 say. 
 
 "I am so sorry 3^ou have to wait for 
 supper," she faltered ; " Dr. Custance will be 
 here in a moment. He — Mr. Caton is not 
 well, I believe." 
 
 She coloured very faintly as she spoke, 
 and the young man suddenly flushed to the 
 roots of his thick, dark hair a deep, painful 
 scarlet. There was another pause — an 
 awkward one this time apparently — and then 
 the silence was broken by the voice of Dr. 
 Custance as he came quickly into the 
 room. 
 
 *' So sorry to keep you waiting ! " he said. 
 " Shall we go in to supper ?"
 
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 His wife rose hurriedly and moved 
 towards the door in silence ; and the young 
 man, with the natural, easy impulse of a 
 gentleman, held it for her to pass out. As 
 she did so she lifted her eyes to him again 
 with the same vague surprise with which she 
 had received his apology.
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 The house which was known In Thornsdyke 
 village as *' the doctor's," v/as a large and 
 rambling building which might possibly, from 
 its appearance, have started In life as a cottage, 
 and developed by degrees to Its present 
 dimensions, or which might have been 
 originally the substantial farmhouse of well- 
 to-do farmers. It did not look particularly 
 substantial now, nor did it look as though its 
 present tenants were particularly well-to-do. 
 Its white plaster surface was much discoloured, 
 in many places In actual need of repair ; and 
 there was a pervading air of dilapidation of
 
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 43 
 
 which the details were slight enough in 
 themselves, while the whole effect was 
 singularly depressing. 
 
 The best-kept of country houses could 
 hardly have looked anything but depressing 
 on the morning following the unexpected 
 arrival of * the doctor's " guest. The rain 
 had stopped indeed, but only recently, and 
 nature seemed to be in a momentarily 
 quiescent state ; pausing, as it were, all drip- 
 ping and heavy, before passing into another 
 and brighter state of activity. The dull 
 grey clouds still hung over the earth, and 
 beneath them everything had a watery, 
 almost sodden appearance. 
 
 The garden surrounding the doctor's 
 house, as neglected as the house itself, looked 
 particularly dreary under these circumstances. 
 Its principal feature was an uncared-for 
 lawn, surrounded on tw^o sides by untidy
 
 44 A MERE CYPPIER 
 
 flower-beds, and on the other two by an 
 equally untidy gravel path. 
 
 At the end of this path, at about nine 
 o'clock on the morning after his arrival, 
 stood the doctor's guest. 
 
 It was nearly an hour since he had come 
 out of the house to wander restlessly about, 
 and he had come to a standstill at last, his 
 face expressing perfect fellowship with the 
 dreariness, atmospheric and actual, before 
 him. His eyes passed slowly from the 
 barren landscape to the neglected garden ; 
 from thence to the dilapidated house ; and 
 there, in the window of the dining-room, a 
 long window on a level with the path, he 
 saw his hostess, a small, ungraceful figure, no 
 Inharmonious element in the picture, in its 
 dull drab gown. No such change as the 
 unexpected presence of a lady had brought 
 to his face on the previous evening came to
 
 A MERE CYPHER 45 
 
 it now, but he made an obvious effort, un- 
 successful enough, to Hghten its expression 
 as he lifted his hat to her courteously. The 
 bow with which she returned his acknow- 
 ledgment of her presence in the window was 
 hurried and nervous, as though she had not 
 been prepared for such a necessity as she 
 stood there watching him. She was 
 evidently waiting breakfast for him, and he 
 moved quickly, though with none of the 
 elasticity that the step of so young a man 
 should have possessed, towards the house. 
 
 Three years before Norman Strange 
 had taken a good degree and left the 
 University one of the most popular men of 
 his college ; a cheery, impulsive, generous- 
 hearted young fellow. He had had his full 
 share of the wide and somewhat quixotic 
 views of life, the fixed, and — to their 
 originators — unalterable opinions, the am-
 
 46 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 bition at once high-minded and impracticable, 
 which should characterise youth. He had 
 numbers of friends, with all of whom he was 
 on the same genial terms of good-fellowship 
 to the exclusion of any one intimate friend- 
 ship ; but he was singularly poor in relations. 
 He had neither brother nor sister, his father 
 and mother had died in his boyhood, and 
 his guardian during his minority had been 
 his mother's only brother. Of his father's 
 relations, the only two remaining were 
 elderly unmarried ladies, possessed of con- 
 siderable wealth, and living very quietly in the 
 Lake district. Between these ladies and his 
 guardian there was a feud of long standing, 
 and Norman Strange in consequence knew 
 little of his aunts. His uncle, Mr. Kingdon, 
 was a bachelor and a prominent O.C, a man 
 with few sympathies, on whose original hard 
 and narrow severity, an extended professional
 
 A MERE CYPHER 47 
 
 acquaintance with the weakness and wicked- 
 ness of human nature had had no softeninof 
 effect. He had seen Httle of his nephew and 
 ward during his boyhood, and when the latter 
 finally came to London to start in life there 
 was no affection between the two, hardly even 
 familiarity ; nothing but respect, and a chilly 
 sense of distance on the young man's part, 
 and a certain cold interest on that of his 
 uncle. 
 
 More by reason of his uncle's tacit 
 assumption that such was his obvious destiny, 
 than through any natural aptitude of his own, 
 Norman Strange was entered at the Temple. 
 The law seemed to him as good a field as 
 any other ; a distinguished Q.C. or a learned 
 judge having apparently as many opportuni- 
 ties as most men for benefiting his fellow- 
 men. If he could not candidly assert that the 
 entire bar and bench took advantage of these
 
 48 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 Opportunities, of course there was no doubt 
 in his mind that he himself would do so. 
 He established himself in very desirable 
 bachelor quarters and applied himself with 
 enthusiasm to the study of the law. 
 
 He was a very good-looking young man 
 in those days, far better-looking than the 
 thin, haggard Norman Strange who arrived 
 at Thornsdyke on that February evening. 
 There was a dash and fire about him that 
 was even more attractive than regularity of 
 feature. His manner was excellent. His 
 uncle had taken care that his social as well 
 as his intellectual education should be of the 
 best kind, and the result on a temperament 
 naturally chivalrous and refined was the 
 production of a very finished gentleman in 
 the best sense of the word. Such intro- 
 ductions as his University connection left 
 still to be desired, his uncle, a man ol the
 
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 world himself, and keenly appreciative of 
 the advantages to a young man of a footing 
 in society, supplied to him. He was uni- 
 versally popular, and went about a great 
 deal, combining work and play with inex- 
 haustible energy. 
 
 Nearly two years passed, and then Nor- 
 man Strange developed a fit of excessive 
 studiousness. He refused all invitations, 
 shut himself up in his chambers, and worked 
 at his profession with feverish energy. The 
 attack was the first visible effect upon his 
 ardent and uncompromising youth of a 
 gradual realisation of the heavy drudgery 
 involved in legal study for a mind with no 
 special aptitude for it ; and it was followed by 
 the inevitable reaction. Having overworked 
 himself considerably he took a complete 
 holiday, and he took it in the wrong com- 
 pany. There was a set of young men 
 
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 so A MERE CYPHER 
 
 with whom he had just kept in touch after 
 a slight college acquaintance, but whose 
 gaieties he had rather avoided as being *' too 
 rapid for a working man," as he explained. 
 During a holiday, however, with the general 
 slackening of moral tension involved in such 
 a proceeding, and the vague desire to forget 
 his distaste to the work to which he must 
 eventually return, he saw no reason against 
 accepting any invitation he received. In the 
 set into which he went thus as part ot the 
 general change and relaxation of his holiday, 
 it was " the thing " to drink a great deal 
 more champagne and a great deal more 
 whisky than had ever been the custom with 
 Norman Strange, and the latter, doing at 
 Rome as the Romans did, found the effect 
 very satisfactory in its stimulus of spirits and 
 energies really rather jaded by overwork, 
 and in the freedom it involved from that
 
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 constant worrying doubt as to his suitability 
 to his profession. He grew to look forward to 
 and to count upon the exhilaration common 
 in a greater or less degree to all the members 
 of his new set after a dinner or supper. He 
 had been excited, quarrelsome, incoherent 
 again and again — phases to which his present 
 companions were well accustomed in one 
 another — when at last the climax came. 
 
 A dinner was given, by one of the set, 
 from which Norman Strange rose some- 
 thing more than excited. He had an 
 engagement for a dance, at which he 
 expected to meet a girl a little flirtation 
 with whom had formed another feature of 
 his holiday, and in spite of the laughing 
 advice of a friend more self-possessed than 
 himself, he insisted on departing forthwith 
 in a hansom to keep it. The drive or 
 an instinctive sense of absolute necessity 
 
 £ 2
 
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 Steadied him to some extent, and -he pre- 
 sented himself to his hostess to all outward 
 appearances his usual self. He found the 
 girl he had come to meet, exchanged 
 greetings with her, asked and was promised 
 a dance, and was holding out his hand for 
 her programme when she suddenly drew it 
 back. 
 
 "I — I'm afraid my card is full," she 
 faltered, and then as a partner came up to 
 claim her, she turned away hastily without 
 another word or glance. 
 
 With the half-stupid consciousness that 
 she had "noticed something," ashamed 
 without knowing why, there came to 
 Norman Strange the instinct to pull him- 
 self together, and he went down to the 
 supper- room. Half an hour later and he 
 was still there, but by that time he was 
 drunk, noisily, horribly drunk, and the
 
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 men - servants of the house were doing 
 their best to get him quietly out of the 
 room. 
 
 The house was one to which his uncle 
 had introduced him, one of the most 
 popular centres of a good *'set." When 
 Norman Strange woke from his drunken 
 sleep next day, he woke to the conscious- 
 ness that his fall was known to, at least, 
 half his acquaintance, and upon his agony 
 of despair and self-loathing came a per- 
 emptory summons from his uncle. He 
 obeyed it mechanically, to hear from that 
 gentleman, who had himself been one of 
 the witnesses of the scene of the previous 
 evening, a short, stern speech delivered 
 without the faintest touch of pity or tender- 
 ness, to the effect that he had disgraced 
 himself beyond retrieval, and that nothing 
 remained for him but to go abroad for
 
 54 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 a time immediately, previously sending an 
 abject apology to his insulted hostess. 
 The early part of the speech was as the 
 voice of doom itself to the wretched young 
 fellow, who listened, standing with his head 
 bent, his face ashen, trembling from head 
 to foot. It formulated his own convic- 
 tion. The latter part he hardly seemed 
 to hear. He turned away, on a dry con- 
 temptuous dismissal, without a word and 
 went back to his chambers. 
 
 He had tried his strength severely by 
 his course of overwork, and his subsequent 
 course of dissipation had not tended to 
 restore it. Physical weakness reacted upon 
 his mental force, and he was utterly power- 
 less to bear up against the intolerable 
 sense of shame that crushed him to the 
 earth. 
 
 During the two months that followed
 
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 he hardly left his rooms ; he saw nobody, 
 he did no work. Humiliated and degraded 
 already in his own eyes beyond all hope 
 of redemption, it mattered nothing to him 
 in his despair how much farther he fell. 
 He had even a kind of bitter satisfaction 
 in each fresh proof of his own worthless- 
 ness. He drank, not wildly or desperately, 
 but with a heavy carelessness of con- 
 sequences and a miserable longing for 
 forgetfulness — the only good life any longer 
 held for him. 
 
 After rather more than two months had 
 passed, his uncle, who had taken it for 
 granted that his advice as to the advisability 
 of leaving the country, had been followed, 
 found out his mistake. He heard through 
 a servant a highly-coloured account of his 
 nephew's present life in all its vice and 
 none of its misery. It was an account which,
 
 56 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 to a man of his temperament — cold and 
 
 irreproachable — was inexpressibly disgusting; 
 
 as given of a young man for whom he was 
 
 to some extent responsible, it was a keen 
 
 humiliation. 
 
 He went to his nephew's chambers, and 
 
 what he found there — Norman at his very 
 worst — was not calculated to soften his cold 
 anger and contempt. " The boy '' had *' gone 
 to the devil," he told himself, and there 
 was nothing to be done but to keep the 
 disgraceful fact as quiet as possible. Ac- 
 cordingly, a day or two later he had another 
 interview with his nephew — the latter sober 
 this time, but silent with the sullenness of 
 absolute despair — in which he half proposed, 
 
 .half commanded, that he should leave 
 London and live " for the present," as 
 he put it drily, in the house of a certain 
 Dr. Custance, of whom Mr. Kingdon had
 
 A MERE CYPHER 57^ 
 
 heard through a client. Little was said 
 about this Dr. Custance by Mr. Kingdon, 
 except that his references and terms were 
 satisfactory, and that he was in the habit 
 of receiving dipsomaniacs. It was tacitly 
 understood by both uncle and nephew that 
 the idea of cure or reformation — whichever 
 word might be most applicable — was nominal 
 only, and that the words used by Mr. 
 Kingdon — " you will put yourself under the 
 care of Dr. Custance " — were a mere phrase ; 
 and Norman Strange had assented heavily 
 to the proposal, as though nothing was 
 any longer of consequence. Six months 
 before his life had been all before him, 
 bright and full of promise. Now it was 
 as though a heavy pall had descended upon* 
 it. Energy was dead, hope was dead, self- 
 respect was dead, and with these had gone 
 all that made life worth living.
 
 58 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 As he Stood in Dr. Custance's garden 
 on that February morning his only hope 
 was that that Hfe itself might soon be taken 
 from him.
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 There was the same heavy restraint on 
 his face, and it was little less white than 
 it had been the night before, when he 
 entered the dining-room where breakfast 
 was waiting. 
 
 " I am afraid I have kept you waiting 
 again," he said to Mrs. Custance, as she 
 turned hastily from the window on his 
 entrance. 
 
 There was none of that reversion to 
 his old self which had been produced by 
 his surprise at his first meeting with his 
 hostess on the previous evening, but his 
 grave, toneless voice and reserved manner
 
 6o A MERE CYPHER 
 
 were perfectly courteous. Then, as Mrs. 
 Custance, deprecating his apology to herself 
 with a nervous murmur, glanced towards her 
 husband as he stood before the fire, he added 
 to the latter a formal " Good morning." 
 
 The making of small talk was no slight 
 effort to Norman in his present state, and 
 he was heavily conscious of something wrong 
 in the breakfast-table conversation that 
 followed — something that suggested that 
 the trio who should have been engaged 
 in it were entirely unable to strike a common 
 chord. His remarks to his hostess seemed 
 to embarrass her. She replied in mono- 
 syllables only, with nervous glances at her 
 husband. Dr. Custance was ready enough 
 to talk, but Norman's instincts of courtesy 
 forbade the total ignoring of the wife ap- 
 parently involved in conversation with the 
 husband. Dr. and Mrs. Custance and.
 
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 Norman Strange completed the party. The 
 other inmate — the resources of the White 
 House enabled Dr. Custance to receive only- 
 two — the Mr. Caton, to whose indisposition 
 Mrs. Custance had alluded on the previous 
 evening, was, presumably, not sufficiently 
 recovered to appear at breakfast. 
 
 It was a relief to Norman when break- 
 fast was over and Dr. Custance rose. The 
 next moment he was wondering wearily what 
 he should do, when that gentleman looked 
 round from a cursory inspection of the 
 weather, and said easily : 
 
 *' We must have a little interview by- 
 and-by, Mr. Strange. If you would like a 
 cigar will you go to the smoking-room now ? 
 — you know the way — and I'll come to you 
 there in a few minutes." 
 
 Norman Strange flushed hotly — the deep, 
 painful scarlet of the night before — and he
 
 62 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 glanced instinctively towards Mrs. Custance, 
 who had just risen from her chair. He 
 could not see her face, and he answered 
 evidently at random in a low, hurried voice, 
 in which there was a tone that was almost 
 reproof, and, turning away, left the room. 
 
 In the hall outside, with the door closed 
 behind him, he paused for a moment irre- 
 solute. He had nowhere definite to go, 
 nothing definite to do. He might as well 
 smoke, he told himself, as anything else. 
 
 He moved listlessly along the winding, 
 uneven passage that led to the smoking- 
 room, opened the door, and went in. Dr. 
 Custance had shown him the room with the 
 rest of the house on the night before, but he 
 had hardly looked at it then. Now, glancing 
 round it, he saw that it was a small room, 
 comfortable looking, though everything in it 
 was more or less shabby. There was a long
 
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 wicker chair, plentifully supplied with shabby- 
 cushions, at right angles with the fireplace, 
 in which a bright fire was burning. There 
 were several other luxurious-looking chairs, 
 and Norman Strange let himself sink into 
 one of these and slowly took out his cigar-case. 
 He lit his cigar and began to smoke, letting 
 his head fall back against the cushions of his 
 chair. 
 
 His most prominent sensation, during 
 the first reposeful moments following on the 
 painful strain of breakfast, was one of phy- 
 sical lassitude. On the previous night, 
 almost for the first time for two months, he 
 had gone to bed sober, and he was missing 
 in every fibre the stimulant to which he was 
 accustomed But after a few moments, from 
 his sense of physical discomfort and his 
 realisation of its cause, his thoughts, vague 
 and indefinite enough, and becoming not less
 
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 SO as he smoked and they drifted, passed to 
 what had induced that cause. 
 
 He had been inexpressibly taken by sur- 
 prise by the presence of a lady in Dr. 
 Custance's house. For two months he had 
 not spoken to a lady ; he had come down to 
 Thornsdyke prepared to shut himself up in 
 a bachelor household, where in the society 
 of the fellow " patient " he should find com- 
 pany for which he was fit, as he told himself 
 bitterly ; where no depths of degradation to 
 which he might sink would cause surprise 
 or disgust ; and where the end might come 
 to him when and how fate would. The pre- 
 sence of Dr. Custance's wife was a factor on 
 which he had not calculated, and the current 
 of his reckless self-abandonment had been, 
 for the moment, arrested on the night before 
 by the unexpectedness of the circumstances 
 in which he found himself. Short as had
 
 A MERE CYPHER . 65 
 
 been the evening before he went to his room 
 — perhaps because it had been so short, and 
 the first impression of a womanly atmosphere 
 was still so strong upon him — its influence 
 had held him fast. He could not drink — he 
 could not " make a beast of himself so soon," 
 he had muttered to himself ; there was a lady 
 under the same roof ; how near him she might 
 be he could not tell, and he could not do it. 
 
 He sat on now smoking, and his thought, 
 from a vague, indefinite consideration of the 
 night before, gradually narrowed and focussed 
 themselves round the actual woman in 
 question. He had no definite impressions 
 with regard to Mrs. Custance. Even her 
 personal appearance was not very distinct to 
 him. Considering her now, carelessly enough, 
 he decided that she was a very nervous little 
 woman, and perhaps not particularly intelli- 
 gent. 
 
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 65 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 " It must be a dull enough life clown here 
 to stupefy any one," he said to himself, 
 thinking for the first time for weeks of 
 something unconnected with himself; and 
 then reniembering certain little significant 
 signs and tokens in her manner of receiving 
 his attention which seemed to imply that 
 Mrs. Custance was not used to such cour- 
 teous respect as came naturally from him to 
 a lady and his hostess, he thought to himself 
 how soon men living out of the world grow 
 careless with women ; and suddenly his face 
 flamed again as it had done on Dr. Custance's 
 speech about their interview after break- 
 fast. 
 
 *' Before his wife ! " he muttered to him- 
 self. " How could he?" 
 
 The thought recalled him indirectly to 
 himself and his own affairs, and his mind 
 turned to the interview before him. He
 
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 had finished his cigar, and his expression, 
 which had softened slightly under the 
 influence of physical weariness and imper- 
 sonal meditation, grew harder and heavier 
 moment by moment. A touch on the handle 
 of the door made him lift to it a pair of eyes 
 that were at once sullen and desperate, and 
 the next moment he had risen to his feet 
 with a face which he rendered suddenly, by a 
 strong effort of self-control, perfectly impas- 
 sive. Mrs. Custance was standing hesitating 
 in the doorway. 
 
 " I beg your pardon," she said, " my 
 husband wishes me to say how sorry he is 
 that he can't see you just now. He is 
 obliged to — to go out. He will see you 
 when he comes in, he says." 
 
 She said the rather unnecessary last 
 words evidently with the irresistible im- 
 pulse natural to some people to repeat 
 
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 68 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 words that are painful or difficult to utter. 
 She had coloured faintly, and she was 
 painfully embarrassed by her obvious con- 
 sciousness of the object of the postponed 
 interview. It was evidently no want of 
 consideration but sheer nervousness that 
 made her, after letting her eyes wander 
 round the room as she spoke, finally fix 
 them on his face. 
 
 '' Thank you," he said, " it is most kind 
 of you to take this trouble ! " 
 
 She made no direct response, though 
 she paused a moment, uncertainly, as though 
 feeling that she ought to do or say some- 
 thing. Then she said hurriedly : 
 
 " My husband told me to take you to 
 see the village — if you would care to go. 
 He may not be in until late this afternoon, 
 and he thought you might be dull. If 
 you would care to go with me "
 
 A MERE CYPHER 69 
 
 She stopped. There had been some- 
 thing curiously humble and self-depreciating 
 in her shy tone which turned the polite refusal 
 with which Norman Strange had instinctively 
 prepared to reply into the words : 
 
 •* It is very kind of you, Mrs. Custance 
 It will give me great pleasure." 
 
 " Then would you mind coming soon — 
 I mean in about half an hour ? " she said. 
 " I have to go down to the shop then, 
 and, besides, it may be raining later on." 
 
 With a heavy sense that all times 
 were alike to him, Norman Strange assured 
 her that he w^as entirely at her service, 
 and the slight, drab figure disappeared. 
 Twenty minutes later he stood in the hall 
 waiting for her as she came downstairs. 
 
 "You've been waiting," she said, lifting 
 her eyes to him as she reached him, almost 
 as if deprecating his annoyance.
 
 70 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 "Why not ?" he answered lightly. " May 
 I not carry your basket ? " he added, holding 
 out his hand as he spoke for the litde 
 covered basket she held. 
 
 She let him take it without a word, 
 nor did she speak as they crossed the 
 garden and went out on to the road. The 
 silence was broken at last by Norman 
 Strange. 
 
 " Thornsdyke is an old village, is it 
 not ? " he said. 
 
 He had spoken solely from a sense 
 that civility demanded conversation of some 
 sort, but Mrs. Custance lifted her eyes and 
 answered eagerly : 
 
 " Oh, yes," she said. " I believe it Is 
 quite old ; at least, the houses are dreadfully 
 miserable and tumbledown, some of them. 
 But it's rather pretty In the summer, bits 
 of it. The people think a great deal of
 
 A MERE CYPHER 71 
 
 their gardens. I'm afraid it won't look 
 very pretty this morning, though.'* 
 
 She was so obviously anxious that he 
 should be pleased and interested, that his 
 answer was given with more warmth of 
 manner than he would have believed 
 possible of himself where his new sur- 
 roundings, with their terrible weight of 
 significance, were concerned. And as they 
 turned a corner of the muddy lane down 
 which they were walking, he exclaimed : 
 
 " What a remarkably fine old church ! 
 What is the date, Mrs. Custance?" 
 
 " The date," she answered rather vaguely, 
 "the date when it was built? I'm afraid 
 I don't know. Do you think it's a pretty 
 church? It's rather — rather dreary-looking, 
 don't you think ?" 
 
 Norman Strange had noticed the church 
 more with a view to helping her than from
 
 72 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 any other reason, but architecture had been 
 a hobby of his at one time, and as they 
 drew nearer he was roused to something 
 very Hke enthusiasm. 
 
 " It's magnificent," he said. '* Can we 
 get in, Mrs. Custance ? I should very 
 much Hke to see the interior. I never 
 saw anything more perfect than that Early 
 English work.'* 
 
 That Mrs. Custance was ignorant of 
 the very simplest architectural terms, that 
 her knowledge, historical or artistic, was 
 as slight as was her capacity — or indeed 
 her desire — to conceal her ignorance, was 
 very evident to Norman Strange before 
 he had finished his exploration of the 
 exterior of the church — the interior was 
 inaccessible. And there was something in 
 her wistful consciousness and dej^recatlon of 
 her own shortcomings, and in her uncon-
 
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 sclously betrayed admiration of his learning, 
 that touched his youthful tendency to instruct. 
 
 " I could soon show you," he said at 
 last, referring to the first principles of 
 architecture, and speaking quite eagerly. 
 *' It is not a bit difficult, and you really 
 ought to understand how fine this is." 
 
 He was still discoursing on the subject, 
 when a few minutes later another turn in 
 the lane brought them into the village 
 street, and a woman passing wished the 
 doctor's wife good morning, and favoured 
 her companion with a prolonged stare. 
 Instantly conscious of it as he was, the 
 inspection seemed to recall him to his 
 present self He finished his sentence in 
 a different tone, and his face hardened into 
 the impassive whiteness which was the 
 mask his sullen misery considered due to 
 the companionship of a lady.
 
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 "I am afraid I must go in here," said 
 Mrs. Custance as he finished speaking, 
 stopping at the door of a Httle nondescript 
 village shop. " I shan't be a minute. Will 
 you — will you come in with me ? " 
 
 Norman Strange glanced through the 
 half-open door into the interior of the shop 
 where two or three figures were to be 
 seen. 
 
 "Thank you," he said, '* I will wait 
 here, I think." And he turned, as Mrs. 
 Custance disappeared, and leant against a 
 post, one of a series of five or six con- 
 nected by an iron chain which faced the 
 little shop on the opposite side of the 
 pathway, and were, ajDparenily, the remains 
 of a continuous paling. He had waited 
 about five minutes when a voice from the 
 interior of the shop caught his ear, and 
 he lifted his head mechanically as he won-
 
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 dered where he had heard it before. 
 Nearly the whole of the little shop was 
 visible to him as he stood, and by the 
 counter, leaning back upon it on her 
 elbow, stood the driver of the cart he 
 had stopped the night before. Her won- 
 derful red-gold hair was uncovered, and 
 she was evidently at home. She was 
 listening now to Mrs. Custance, who was 
 holding a baby in her arms as she talked 
 to the woman from whom she had appa- 
 rently taken it. Norman saw her bend 
 her own faded face over the child, kiss 
 it gently, and then return it to its mother 
 with a gesture that made him wonder 
 vaguely that he had thought her ill- 
 assured. Then she turned to the handsome 
 girl. 
 
 " I will come up now, Alice," she said, 
 "only " She hesitated and glanced
 
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 out towards Norman Strange. He hardly 
 caught her next words, but he saw the 
 girl glance quickly in his direction, and 
 he understood that she took in the position 
 instantly. She followed Mrs. Custance as 
 the latter walked to the shop door and 
 said to Norman Strange — all the assurance 
 with which she had touched the child 
 gone from her manner — " Would you mind 
 walking on a little way and coming back 
 to me ? There is a woman ill here, and 
 I should like just to see her." 
 
 " Please don't think of me," returned 
 Norman Strange quickly. He raised his 
 hat slightly as he spoke in acknowledg- 
 ment of the recognition in the flashing 
 black eyes which were fixed on him 
 from behind Mrs. Custance, who turned 
 nervously. 
 
 " You found the house, then," said the
 
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 girl carelessly. She spoke with an ease 
 of manner which contrasted as curiously 
 with Mrs. Custance's diffidence as did their 
 physical presences as they stood together 
 in the doorway. 
 
 ** Thanks to your direction," he replied. 
 Then, as Mrs. Custance made a hesitating 
 sound of enquiry, he waited while the girl 
 explained, and after another word of thanks 
 for her directions, he said simply to Mrs. 
 Custance : *' Please don't think of hurrying 
 on my account. I will walk on and come 
 back," and turned away. 
 
 He had walked nearly the length of 
 the village street, his eyes bent on the 
 ground, when he became aware that he 
 was monopolising the narrow, cobblestone 
 pavement, and that a man coming towards 
 him was intimating his right to a share. 
 Norman Strange lifted his head suddenly.
 
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 and was moving aside with a word of 
 apology, when the other man said : 
 
 " INIr. Strange, I infer ?" 
 
 Norman Strange stopped and looked at 
 his questioner, who stood in the middle of 
 the footpath with a large cigar in his mouth. 
 He was a young man of about middle height, 
 rather large in figure, with a face that was 
 handsome enough but for a certain in- 
 describable coarseness about it. He was 
 dressed in an old tweed suit, and there was 
 something slovenly about his whole ap- 
 pearance. His eyes, which were slightly 
 bloodshot, were fixed on Norman with an 
 inquisitive stare, 
 
 *' Strange is my name," returned Norman 
 distantly. 
 
 ** Thought as much," continued the 
 other. " Spotted you in a moment, and 
 thought I'd introduce myself. My name is
 
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 Caton — Robert Caton. You've heard it, of 
 course ? " 
 
 There was an instant's dead silence as 
 Norman Strange's haggard, dark eyes met 
 the bloodshot ones before him. This was 
 his fellow patient ; his most suitable 
 associate ; the man with whom he must 
 stand henceforth on ah equality. Then 
 he said in a voice that came from between 
 set teeth : 
 
 ** I have had that pleasure — yes !*' 
 
 *' That's all right, then ; we know each 
 other ! " answered the other carelessly. 
 '' Taking a look at the place, eh ? I was 
 sorry not to meet you last night, but I was 
 in need of a little repose." 
 
 He had turned as he began to speak and 
 Norman Strange was retracing his steps, 
 perforce beside him, but he made no reply 
 either to the words or to the coarse laugh
 
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 with which his companion ended, and the 
 latter continued : 
 
 " Feel a bit out of sorts this morning still, 
 and thought I'd get a breath of air and look 
 into the shop. Been into the shop ? Come 
 in with me, and I'll show the finest woman 
 you've ever seen. Don't frighten yourself^ 
 old man, that's not the lady ! " 
 
 The last sentence was uttered in a lower 
 tone, half sneer, half '^ chaff," and he finished 
 with another laugh. Mrs. Custance had 
 come to the threshold of the shop alone. 
 Seeing the two men she moved hurriedly and 
 came towards them. 
 
 Without a glance at the man beside him, 
 his face very white and set, Norman Strange 
 went hastily forward to meet her. 
 
 ** I hope you have not been waiting for 
 me," he said. " Shall we go on ? " 
 
 He turned as he spoke and stood at her
 
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 side, waiting almost grimly as she said 
 timidly : 
 
 ** Good morning, Mr. Caton ! " 
 And as he saw the small hand she held 
 out touched carelessly by the shaking hand 
 of the man they faced, his own hand thrust 
 into his pocket was fiercely clenched. 
 
 *' Shall we go on, Mrs. Custance ? " he 
 repeated. 
 
 VOL. T.
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 '' A CAPITAL day's sport altogether ! " 
 
 The speaker was Robert Caton, and the 
 words concluded an account of a ratting ex- 
 pedition in which he had spent the afternoon. 
 It was about eight o'clock in the evening. 
 The drawing-room of the White House had 
 long been lighted up, and the surface appear- 
 ance of the room and its occupants — two 
 men talking together while a woman sat by 
 at work — was one of comfort and domesticity. 
 Robert Caton was lounging in a large arm- 
 chair with his feet on the fender as though 
 he had recently come in, cold. His dress 
 was negligent in the extreme, and smoking
 
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 jacket and slippers alike might have been 
 said to have done their work. Opposite to 
 him with his easy-chair pushed back, as 
 though he had been comfortably established 
 there for so long that a nearer neighbour- 
 hood to the fire was no longer desirable, 
 sat Dr. Custance, with a newspaper across 
 his knee. He, too, wore a smoking jacket, 
 but his was in very much better condition 
 than Robert Caton's, and in its first fresh- 
 ness had evidently been very handsome. 
 
 *' You must have found it cold," he com- 
 mented, as Robert Caton brought his speech 
 to a close. *' The east wind is abominable ! " 
 
 He glanced over his shoulder as he 
 spoke, shifting his attitude carelessly as he 
 did so into another and easier variety of 
 cross-legged negligence, and his wife rose 
 silently, with a simple matter-of-course move- 
 ment, rearranged the thick curtain over the 
 
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 window behind him, and returned to her seat. 
 It was a stiff little chair, placed nearly in the 
 middle of the room, convenient doubtless for 
 the light obtained from the hanging lamp, 
 but rather cold and isolated in consequence 
 of the two large chairs that shut in so much 
 of the hearth. Mrs. Custance was rather 
 pale ; the recent ratting conversation had 
 been slightly brutal in detail. Her face had 
 not sufficient capacity of expression to show 
 the anxiety with which she listened lest it 
 should be resumed, or her relief at the short 
 silence which ensued. 
 
 •' Where's Strange ? " 
 
 The question was asked by Robert 
 Caton, and he struck his foot idly against the 
 fender as he spoke, with a frown. 
 
 " Strange ! " returned the doctor care- 
 lessly. " I haven't an idea. Leila, do you 
 know where Strange is ? "
 
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 He did not turn his head as he addressed 
 his wife — repeating the whole question as 
 though the previous words exchanged be- 
 tween himself and Caton had been inaudible 
 to her ; but Mrs. Custance turned towards 
 him as she answered at once quickly and 
 timidly. 
 
 " I don't know, I'm sure. Isn't he in 
 his own room ? " 
 
 *' If I could say that, I should hardly ask 
 where he was," returned her husband. His 
 careless tone was hard with sarcasm ; and 
 JMrs. Custance took up her work again 
 hurriedly and nervously, without speaking. 
 
 *'What do you make of him, Custance, 
 eh?" 
 
 The questioner was again Robert Caton, 
 and the fender received another kick as 
 the words were spoken. Dr. Custance 
 glanced at him for a moment with eyes
 
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 which looked as though they would have 
 been keen had their owner taken sufficient 
 trouble. 
 
 *' I don't know that I have made any- 
 thing of him as yet," he answered placidly. 
 " He has only been here three days." 
 
 " Three hours is enough for me to tell 
 whether a fellow is my sort or not. Strange 
 isn't, and that's the fact." 
 
 Neither of the men saw the face of the 
 woman behind them, as she lifted it from 
 her work for a moment. Nor would they 
 have read much in it had they done so, for 
 only in her eyes as she fixed them on Caton 
 there struggled feebly an expression which 
 strove to become dlso^ust. Quite uncon- 
 scious of the faded blue eyes, Robert Caton 
 continued : 
 
 "He's such an unsociable brute! I've 
 done the civil to him as hard as I can, and
 
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 he isn't up to anything. Asked him to come 
 out ratting to-day, and he barely thanked 
 me." 
 
 " Perhaps he's not much of a sportsman," 
 suggested Dr. Custance absently. 
 
 " Confound it all, he must be something ! 
 I don't know whether he's opened out to 
 you at all, but I've not seen him show a 
 sign of interest in any blessed thing." 
 
 Robert Caton paused, but Dr. Custance's 
 only reply was an inarticulate and indefinite 
 sound, and he began again with a laugh : 
 
 " Perhaps we shall chum up by-and-by, 
 eh, doctor ? He's a better fellow drunk 
 than sober, very likely, if he'd only give us 
 the chance to see. It's time he did, in my 
 opinion, instead of keeping so jolly dark," 
 
 Light as was the tone there was an 
 undercurrent ot brutal earnest in it, as 
 though the confirmed and hopelessly de-
 
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 graded drunkard resented the three days' 
 sobriety of the man in whom he expected to 
 find a comrade. Robert Caton was nine- 
 and-twenty, and his days of sobriety since 
 he had been nineteen had been few. How 
 far his vices were the result of heredity, how 
 far of education, no one could have said. 
 He had been a good-lookino^, self-indulgent 
 boy, he had been a self-indulgent, vicious 
 youth, and he was now well content to pay 
 the fee required by Dr. Custance, that he 
 might go his own way comparatively shielded 
 from social consequences by that gentleman's 
 protective and pity-compelling medical dictum 
 — " incurable." 
 
 Dr. Custance smiled at him now, half 
 indulgently, half reprovingly ; but in the 
 spare fingers of the little ungainly figure 
 behind him the needle snapped suddenly. 
 Mrs. Custance rose abruptly and as abruptly
 
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 sat down again. As though glad to effect 
 a diversion, her husband glanced over his 
 shoulder and said, in the tone of nonchalant 
 sarcasm that he had used to her before : 
 
 *'You don't find your chair comfortable, 
 Leila, apparently. Suppose you take another 
 and fidget less upon it." 
 
 He had turned his eyes away before 
 she could lift hers, confused and bewildered, 
 to his face, and his lips were parted to speak 
 to Caton when the bell rang for supper. 
 At the same moment the door opened, and 
 Norman Strange came into the room. 
 
 The semblance of his old self, which had 
 shown in him more or less distinctly during 
 the day following his arrival at the White 
 House, had disappeared almost completely, 
 and the whole man seemed to be enveloped 
 in some sort of heavy, intangible cloud. 
 His eyes were hard and fierce, and his
 
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 mouth was set with a dogged expression 
 at once of suffering and of indifference. 
 
 He did not look towards Mrs. Custance, 
 and her eyes were fixed on him for an 
 instant with a miserable, wistful questioning. 
 Then she passed hurriedly out of the door 
 as he held it open for her mechanically, 
 listening at the same moment to Caton's 
 self-assertive announcement of the capital 
 sport he had had. His reply was civil in 
 its interest and no more, and would have 
 done nothing to uphold the conversation 
 if Dr. Custance had not neatly grafted on 
 to it a comment which led to an animated 
 dissertation on sport generally from Caton. 
 If It was aimed indirectly at Norman Strange^ 
 the latter was quite unconscious of the fact. 
 He made no attempt to join in the con- 
 versation, but sat with his eyes fixed moodily 
 on. the tablecloth, eating nothing.
 
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 ** Don't you care about killing things, 
 Mr. Strange ? " 
 
 The voice was very low, frightened at 
 its own sound apparently, and Caton's loud 
 tones drowned it before it reached either 
 himself or Dr. Custance ; but Norman 
 Strange started violendy as he heard it. 
 He did not turn to her, and he poured 
 some water into the glass beside him as 
 he said briefly: * 
 
 *' Not much, Mrs. Custance." 
 
 The words did not invite further con- 
 versation, and Mrs. Custance's supper lay 
 untouched upon her plate as her hands stole 
 nervously into her lap and there clasped and 
 twisted one another painfully. Her eyes 
 were almost bright with the effort she was 
 making, as she continued : 
 
 *' Gendemen always — it seems to me 
 there is always something to be said between
 
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 them about things Hke that. I have always 
 wondered why it Is so Interesting." 
 
 The interesting topic in question had 
 reached a point between Robert Caton and 
 Dr. Custance at which the details were 
 not pleasant hearing ; and glancing towards 
 her, Norman Strange thought that her 
 heightened colour and the nervous twitch 
 about her mouth were due to physical repul- 
 sion. He could not tell that not one word 
 that Robert Caton was saying was heard 
 by her, and he took up her words quickly, 
 though with an obvious effort, anxious to 
 distract her attention. 
 
 " Half the world is always wondering 
 at the amusements of the other half," he 
 said. "That is a truism, I'm afraid, Mrs. 
 Custance, but really I think there is no 
 subject on which we are so intolerant of 
 tastes that differ from our own individual
 
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 taste. It isn't only that we can't get on 
 with a man whose amusements are different 
 to our own — that's not so unnatural perhaps 
 — but we do look down upon him so ! " 
 
 He finished with the smile that his words 
 demanded. She smiled vaguely in return, 
 evidently hardly understanding him. But 
 she answered, with a brave effort to keep 
 his attention, if somewhat irrelevantly : 
 
 ** Are you fond of boating ? We used 
 to boat on the Dart a great deal before — 
 when I was at home." 
 
 The boating anecdotes into which he 
 plunged lasted until supper was nearly over, 
 and were interrupted by a domestic enquiry 
 addressed by Dr. Custance to his wife. 
 The sporting discussion being by that time 
 disposed of and the necessity for a second 
 conversation removed, Norman Strange 
 relapsed once more into silence, and Mrs.
 
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 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 Custance, though her eyes had wandered 
 wistfully towards him more than once, had 
 made no further attempt to make him break 
 that silence when her husband rose from 
 the table. 
 
 " Will you smoke, Strange ? " he said. 
 
 " Thanks ! " was the brief answer. 
 " No ! " 
 
 " Then you would rather go back to the 
 drawing-room than come to the smoking- 
 room, no doubt ? " 
 
 There was a moment's pause, and then 
 Norman Strange answered, in a tone and 
 manner full of heavy constraint : 
 
 *' I have some letters to write, and I 
 will go upstairs at once, I think. Good 
 night." 
 
 He was turning away with a slight bow 
 to her, when Mrs. Custance held out her 
 hand, timidly and awkwardly enough.
 
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 95 
 
 " Good night, Mr. Strange," she said. 
 
 He barely touched her fingers with his 
 own, and went slowly and heavily out of 
 the room. 
 
 A few minutes later Mrs. Custance 
 returned to her needlework in the empty 
 drawing-room, going back to the litde 
 uncomfortable seat in the middle of the 
 room as if from force of habit. But there 
 was something about her face to-night tlfat 
 was not habitual. It was not definitely 
 unhappy ; it was one of those faces in which 
 an expression of great distress or of great 
 joy is alike inconceivable — a face in which 
 every emotion is reflected subdued and 
 faint in tone. But to-night the faint, wistful 
 distress which had struggled to life in her 
 eyes on Norman Strange's entrance before 
 supper did not die out. She lifted her 
 head now and again as though to listen
 
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 for a sound in the room above — Norman 
 Strange's room — and though she went on 
 with her work mechanically after each pause, 
 the stitches she set were far less even than 
 usual. 
 
 There was the same look in her eyes 
 the next morning, and they were rather 
 heavy, too, when she lifted them to Norman 
 Strange's face when he came down to 
 breakfast. This time he did not seem to 
 see the hand she offered him — perhaps 
 because the little gesture was made so 
 timidly. At any rate he did not take It, 
 nor did he meet her eyes. The dark 
 shadow that had hung about him on the 
 evening before brooded about him now 
 more heavily than ever. His replies to 
 Dr. Custance's suave words as to his dis- 
 posal of the day before him were as curt 
 as was consistent with courtesy. He was
 
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 going to take a long walk, he said, and 
 he might not be back until the evening. 
 There was a certain covert defiance in his 
 tone as though he thought it possible that 
 the man under whose charge he was — 
 nominally at least — might offer some objec- 
 tion. But Dr. Custance never objected 
 unless to something that interfered with his 
 own comfort, and as he uttered his easy 
 assent his "patient" left the room. 
 
 It was a bright morning — the first of 
 March — and spring seemed to be asserting 
 itself with exuberant freshness and gaiety. 
 But Mrs. Custance coming towards the 
 White House at about four o'clock in the 
 afternoon after her solitary country walk, 
 seemed to be in no wise touched by the 
 bright influences about her. On the con- 
 trary, it was not only her little lonely, sombrely- 
 dressed figure that seemed out of harmony 
 
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 93 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 with the surrounding Hght and Hfe. Her 
 step was dull and tired, and there was a 
 faintly oppressed look on her face as though 
 the brightness was almost painful to her in 
 its contrast with a care that would not be 
 forgotten. 
 
 She opened the door of the White 
 House, and stood a moment in the hall, 
 hesitating. Then, awkwardly and hurriedly, 
 almost furtively, she opened the door first 
 of the drawing-room, then of the dining- 
 room, and looked in. Each room was empty. 
 She stood for a moment on the threshold of 
 the dining-room and then went suddenly along 
 the passage to the smoking-room. The door 
 was shut and she paused a moment, her 
 faded face quite white with the rapid beating 
 of her heart. Then she opened it as she 
 had opened the other two. 
 
 " Mrs. Custance ! I hope I may flatter
 
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 myself you were looking for me ? Is there 
 anything I can do for you ? Won't you 
 come and sit down in this delightful chair 
 and have a chat ? " 
 
 Norman Strange w^as alone in the room 
 and he had apparently sprung out of the 
 long chair on her appearance. He stood 
 before her now catching unsteadily at its tall 
 back, his breath coming irregularly, his face 
 flushed, his eyes bright and watery. I^s 
 words had come thickly and indistinctly in 
 that far-away, unreal voice which is charac- 
 teristic of these strange absences of the mind 
 — drunkenness or delirium — with an expan- 
 sive exuberant flow as unlike the natural man 
 as could be. 
 
 Without a word, but with a little catch in 
 
 her quick breath, Mrs. Custance had stopped 
 
 short in the doorway ; she stood there 
 
 looking full at him, with a terrible suggestion 
 
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 ill her direct gaze and absolute absence of 
 self-consciousness that the soul of the man 
 before her was not there, that she was, and 
 felt herself to be, alone with its empty shell. 
 Perhaps it was its whiteness, perhaps it was 
 because she was indeed drawn completely out 
 of herself, but her face for the moment was 
 absolutely expressive ; expressive of that 
 pitiful misery which women can feel for a 
 fallen and degraded man. She did not 
 speak, and her silence seemed to affect him 
 somehow, for he laughed foolishly. 
 
 " I'm afraid I've offended you, Mrs. Cus- 
 tance," he began, in the same exaggeratedly 
 open and ingenuous manner. " Perhaps you 
 think it's not the thing to have brandy botdes 
 behind that sofa ? Well, you're right, no 
 doubt — no doubt ; but it was just a joke, and 
 you can make allowances for a joke, I 
 know ? ''
 
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 He paused as if for her answer, and re- 
 peated more urgently : 
 
 " You'll make allowance for a joke, won't 
 you ? " 
 
 He fixed his eyes on hers as he spoke, 
 and with the necessity for speech an agony 
 of confusion seemed to fall on her. She 
 stammered something incoherent, and he 
 interrupted her with another laugh ; a noisy 
 one this time. • 
 
 " It s my belief you think I've been 
 drinking that brandy — think I'm drunk — 
 drunk ! I don't want to be rude to a lady, 
 but really, you know ! Why, just look here ! " 
 
 He took his hand from the chair to which 
 he had been clinging as if to demonstrate to 
 her the fact that he could stand alone, and 
 attempting to make a step towards her, reeled 
 heavily back and fell helplessly upon the 
 cushions behind him.
 
 102 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 With an inarticulate sound of inexpressible 
 pity and pain, Mrs. Custance shut the door 
 suddenly, and clasping her hands for a 
 moment over her face, she hurried away 
 down the passage. As she passed the hall 
 door it opened ; her husband came in and 
 she stopped suddenly. 
 
 " ArnolJ," she said, '' Mr. Strange is in 
 the smoking-room." 
 
 She was trembling from head to foot, and 
 her hands were tightly squeezed together, 
 but her voice was its low, subdued self. 
 
 *' Well," answered her husband. ** Is 
 that all ? " 
 
 - He— he " 
 
 *' He's drunk, I suppose ? " 
 
 '^ Yes ! " 
 
 The word was hardly audible, and as she 
 uttered it Mrs. Custance turned away and 
 went upstairs.
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 Another bright March morning had come 
 and gone; this one, in spite of its brightness, 
 piercingly cold. Into the dining-room of the 
 White House no sunshine came, and *he 
 small face and figure of Mrs. Custance as she 
 sat sewing by the table looked grey and 
 pinched. The fire had sunk low in the 
 grate with those depressing sounds a dying 
 fire makes, but she had not noticed it. All 
 the morning she had hardly moved, except 
 when a need for something from the work- 
 basket at her hand caused her to lift for an 
 instant a wan, dull face. 
 
 One o'clock struck from the litde clock
 
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 on the mantelpiece unheeded by her, and 
 then the door was opened and she started 
 violently. It was the youth from the village 
 who did duty in the doctor's house as page, 
 and he had come to lay the table for lunch. 
 Mrs. Custance rose hurriedly and glanced 
 from his tray to the clock as she hastily 
 collected her work materials. 
 
 "I — I didn't know it was so late, 
 William ! " she said nervously ; and then 
 she shivered a little, and going to the fire- 
 place she knelt down on the rug and began 
 to put the embers together, warming her 
 small blue hands. She turned her head as 
 she did so to watch the boy as he laid the 
 table, and there was something in her 
 attitude which was strangely girlish, and at 
 variance with the worn, subdued face, and 
 the sombre matronliness of her dress. The 
 boy was setting places for two only, and
 
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 with another little shiver she turned once 
 more to the fire. The boy finished his work, 
 left the room, and returned with the lunch 
 itself, and still she did not move. Then he 
 withdrew and rang the dinner-bell, and she 
 started to her feet and stood with her eyes 
 on the fioor, her fingers working nervously 
 at a fold of her dress. Quite live minutes 
 passed, and then a man's step came slowly 
 along the hall, and Norman Strange came 
 into the room. 
 
 White as his face had been when he 
 opened the door, his very lips lost their colour 
 as his eyes fell upon the solitary occupant of 
 the room. He stopped short and his eyes 
 dropped. He did not speak or move, nor 
 did the little, trembling woman at the other 
 end of the room so much as raise her eyes, 
 and there was a moment's dead silence. 
 Then Mrs. Custance said in a low voice,
 
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 which all her efforts could not render 
 steady : 
 
 " My husband told me to say that he 
 was very sorry to be obliged to go and see 
 about a horse to-day. Mr. Caton has gone 
 with him." 
 
 Having made the necessary statement 
 she stopped, as though not trusting herself to 
 do more than control her nervousness. She 
 had moved to her place at the head of the 
 table as she spoke, and without a word 
 Norman Strange took the other place. Such 
 words as are almost indispensable to the 
 commencement of a meal passed between 
 them — low murmurs on her part, monosyllabic 
 responses on his part — and then silence fell 
 between them again ; silence in which the 
 whole meal passed. Mrs. Custance sat 
 with her eyes fixed upon the knife and fork 
 with which she merely played, afraid ap-
 
 A MERE CYPHER 107 
 
 parently to look up. Norman Strange sat 
 Intrenched, as far as his shaken nerves and 
 miserable physical condition would allow, in 
 dogged endurance; hardly even pretending 
 to eat. No sooner did Mrs. Custance, 
 having folded her table napkin with fingers 
 that would hardly be controlled, rise 
 nervously and mechanically from her chair 
 than he rose too, and left the room, as he 
 had entered it, in silence. 
 
 Almost for the first time since the bell 
 for luncheon had sounded, Mrs. Custance 
 raised her eyes as he turned away and 
 followed him with them to the door. He 
 shut It behind him, and she walked vaguely 
 to the window and stood there for a minute 
 or two with her forehead leaning against the 
 pane. Then she moved with a little breath, 
 which would have been a long sigh had she 
 been a woman given to expression, and
 
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 prepared to resume the monotonous needle- 
 work in which her soHtary afternoon as well 
 as her long morning was generally spent. 
 
 It was not until nearly an hour later that 
 she remembered suddenly some wishes of 
 her husband with regard to the alteration 
 of some pictures in the drawing-room. He 
 had wished it made that day, and she rose 
 from her seat with nervous haste as she 
 realised how nearly she had forgotten it. It 
 signified an anxious sense of her own negli- 
 gence that there was apparently no room in 
 her mind for the thought of summoning help, 
 or for the thought of a possible caller. She 
 fetched the steps herself and took down the 
 two smaller pictures that were to be moved. 
 Then she moved the steps — dragging them 
 with some difficulty this time, as though her 
 stock of strength had been small enough to 
 be considerably affected by her previous
 
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 109 
 
 demands on it — and mounted them a^ain. 
 The picture now to be moved was a very 
 large engraving in a heavy frame ; the nail 
 was high above her head, and some minutes 
 of painful effort were necessary before she 
 succeeded in jerking the wire from it, to be 
 herself nearly overbalanced by the weight 
 thus suddenly thrown upon her arms. She 
 did not fall, but her nerves were shaken by 
 the shock; and she was standing clutching the 
 picture, unable to descend the steps with her 
 burden, and unable to get rid of it by any 
 other means, when a low voice from the door- 
 way said suddenly : 
 
 " Let me take it from you, Mrs. 
 Custance," and Norman Strange crossed 
 the room quickly, and reaching up, took 
 the picture from her, even then not lifting 
 his eyes to her face. Then, seeing that 
 she was clinging tremulously to the steps,
 
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 he gave her his hand and helped her 
 carefully down. 
 
 "Where is it to q-q ? " he said. *' It is 
 too heavy for you ! " 
 
 She explained to him in a few confused 
 words, and gravely bowing his head in 
 acquiescence, he fetched the smaller pictures, 
 put them up, and then moved the steps 
 and hung the larger one, all with the 
 same ready helpfulness and in the same 
 silence. Having finished, he was leaving 
 the room again when Mrs. Custance, who 
 had watched him in a silence like his own, 
 made an agitated, uncertain step towards him. 
 
 '' Mr. Strange," she faltered, " won't 
 you — won't you — if you would help me — 
 there is the book-case ! " 
 
 He stopped, his hand on the door, not 
 turning towards her and speaking apparently 
 through clenched teeth.
 
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 " Get one of the servants to help you, 
 Mrs. Custance," he said. " They are fitter 
 company for you than I." 
 
 '' If you would help me ! " She stopped, 
 clasping her hands tightly as though her 
 inability to express herself, to do more 
 than reiterate words already used, was 
 absolute distress to her. Something In her 
 low, stifled voice seemed to touch him. 
 He turned abruptly. • • 
 
 " Mrs. Custance," he said, '' there is 
 one thing I should like to say. I beg 
 you earnestly to believe that if I had had 
 any Idea that there was a lady here I 
 should never have come. For yesterday 
 — if words of apology from such a brute as 
 
 I am were of any worth at all " His 
 
 voice had sunk to a hoarse murmur and 
 he turned away with a gesture of humilia- 
 tion and despair terrible to see. " It can't
 
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 last long! "he muttered brokenly, "it can't 
 last long I" 
 
 Whether she heard the last words or no 
 she made no answer to them, only her 
 eyes dilated, and she pressed her hands 
 together until the pressure must have been 
 absolute pain. 
 
 " It isn't that you need say anything 
 to me," she began in a voice so low that 
 he could hardly catch the words. '' It 
 isn't for me it matters! But — but — oh, 
 why ? " 
 
 The last word came from her the 
 merest frightened whisper, but in its pitiful, 
 forlorn enquiry, its speechless appeal for 
 allowance for her own audacity in making 
 that enquiry, it was indescribably eloquent. 
 Her eyes, full of a dumb struggle, were 
 fixed full upon him ; her face was all 
 quivering with nervousness and distress.
 
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 No eloquent harangue, no adjuration, 
 could have appealed to Norman Strange 
 as did that mute beseeching for an answer. 
 He paused a moment looking at her, and 
 a sharp spasm passed across his face. 
 Then he said, with a self-restrained gentle- 
 ness about which there was a reassurance 
 and protection for her which made the 
 situation inexpressibly curious, his words 
 themselves inexpressibly terrible : 
 
 *' It's done, Mrs. Custance. Nothing 
 can alter it or help me now. I have 
 degraded myself. Vm not fit to speak to 
 a lady, I am not fit to work, I am not fit 
 to live. There is no hope and no future for 
 such a brute as I am. Do you think it 
 possible to get over such shame as I have 
 brought upon myself?" 
 
 In his morbid despair he had asked the 
 question with a half-smile, as though the 
 
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 answer were only too self-evident. But 
 Mrs. Custance, to whom his previous words 
 in their contrast with the manner in which 
 they were uttered, had conveyed little but 
 confusion, seized upon the straightforward 
 question and answered it in all simplicity. 
 "Yes," she said. 
 
 It was the first syllable of hope that 
 had come to him, and he staggered under 
 it for an instant as though it had been a 
 blow. Then he recovered himself and smiled 
 again. 
 
 " I am afraid you don't quite understand," 
 he said. " Every one who knows me knows 
 me now as — a drunkard! I know myself 
 as — that. You are pitiful, Mrs. Custance! 
 Except out of pity you could not speak to 
 me at all. You don't respect me. I don't 
 respect myself. It's all over with me!" 
 As he reiterated the words their full
 
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 significance seemed to rise up within, him 
 and he turned away abruptly. He walked 
 to the window and stood with his back 
 to her. But it was only for a moment, and 
 then he dropped into a chair and his head 
 fell forward upon his hands with a groan. 
 
 There was an interval of perfect stillness 
 — an interval in which the only movement 
 in the room was the movement of her 
 nervous hands — and then Mrs. Custance, 
 with a faint, pink flush of intense effort in 
 her sallow face, crossed the room and stood 
 beside him. 
 
 " Don't be angry with me for speaking 
 of what I dare say I don't understand ! " she 
 began in a low, hurried, and uneven voice. 
 " Perhaps I've made a mistake, but it seems 
 to me as if you were going on because you 
 think you can never get back. Oh," her 
 voice rose to a little stilled cry, " oh ! what 
 
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 can I say to make you see how dreadfully 
 mistaken that is ? I'm so stupid and I 
 say things so badly, but I know — I know 
 that it is never too late to get back if one 
 really wants to. If one repents one can 
 always be forgiven." 
 
 She paused, stopped apparently by a 
 sense of the utter inadequacy of the con- 
 ventional phrase to which she had been 
 driven by the narrow limitation of her power 
 of expression, and Norman Strange moved 
 wearily and lifted his head. 
 
 " That is a good woman's argument," 
 he said, gently. " But the world is not like 
 that, Mrs. Custance." 
 
 " But what do people think of but the 
 present ? " she answered rapidly and inco- 
 herently. '' Who thinks of anything in any- 
 body's life beyond what they can see ? Get 
 better and go back to your life, and who will
 
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 remember anything that is past ? Who will 
 remember enough even to know what you 
 have done in getting back ? Ah ! how badly, 
 how badly I say it ! " 
 
 She stopped abruptly, looking into his 
 face with an unconscious reliance on his 
 power to understand her, an unconscious 
 appeal to him to do so ; and he waited a 
 moment looking at her with strange eyes 
 which he had lifted to her as she spoke, and 
 which had grown stranger as he listened. 
 
 "You said I didn't respect you, Mr. 
 Strange," she went on, and though her tone 
 grew only more stifled and suppressed as her 
 earnestness increased, the faint flush was a 
 burning spot of colour now, on either cheek. 
 *'0h, won't you try and think that all the 
 things you've said to me are as much 
 mistakes as that ? I feel so sure that you 
 are too — too clever and — and everything, not
 
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 to be able to save yourself if you will only 
 try ! Oh, don't you see that you are only 
 making bad worse ? Don't you see that it is 
 throwing your life away of your own accord 
 
 to say it's hopeless ? It's wicked " she 
 
 stopped herself suddenly, as though realising 
 what she was saying. " I beg your pardon," 
 she faltered. " I beg your pardon ! " 
 
 " My own accord ! " he repeated slowly, 
 not noticing her last words. He was still 
 sitting, as though his mind was too fully 
 occupied for physical consciousness, and as 
 she stood looking down at him he looked 
 away from her into space as he repeated the 
 words : "My own accord. And what do you 
 think I ought to do, Mrs. Custance ? " 
 
 But the unusual excitement that had 
 carried her so far had died out in that 
 moment of realisation, and Mrs. Custance 
 turned away to the window behind them, her
 
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 hand working at the window curtain, her 
 eyes full of tears. 
 
 **I don't— I didn't mean that I could — 
 that I had any right to speak to you/Vshe 
 murmured. " It is only that — if you would 
 only try!" 
 
 The tears were running fast down the 
 face she kept turned to the window, and the 
 last word came with a hard little sob. 
 
 Norman Strange rose and turned sharply 
 towards her. 
 
 " It is too late," he cried, the pain in his 
 voice making it harsh and intense as he 
 seemed to thrust from him the hope her 
 words presented. "It is too late! If it 
 were not — perhaps — perhaps I might I "
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 A QUIET girlhood passed in a country village ; 
 an early marriage followed by eight years of 
 married life, unmarked by any more striking 
 incident than two changes of residence, from 
 London to a north country town, and from 
 thence to the village of Thornsdyke ; cannot 
 be said to constitute an eventful life. Mental 
 experiences, passionate mental life, are of 
 course compatible with the most peaceful out- 
 ward circumstances. But though the former 
 is indeed an inseparable adjunct of all human 
 life, the share of it that had fallen to Mrs. Cus- 
 tance had been transmuted, by the tempera- 
 ment on which it acted, into something so
 
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 matter-of-fact in its dreariness that only a 
 very sympathetic onlooker, and one who 
 should have known her infinitely better than 
 she knew herself, could have understood that 
 anything so spiritual in its associations had 
 indeed formed a feature in her colourless life. 
 Having neither home nor parents of her 
 own, she had grown up with her only sister 
 in the house of an uncle in Devonshire. 
 The uncle was rich ; the atmosphere of the 
 house was practical and matter-of-fact. The 
 dependence of the two sisters was cheerily 
 accepted and ignored, but there was an 
 unexpressed understanding that the present 
 state of things would only last until they 
 were of marriageable age, and that they 
 would then provide for themselves. The 
 elder sister was a very pretty, bright girl, 
 and the younger one, Leila, was a faint copy 
 .of her ; pretty but not very pretty, a little
 
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 Stupid and weak in character, but sweeter- 
 natured than her sister, behind whom she 
 sheltered. 
 
 At nineteen the elder girl did what 
 was expected of her in the most satisfactory- 
 way ; she became engaged to a rich man in 
 the Indian Civil Service. The pleased ex- 
 citement of the household took the form of 
 constant hopeful auguries for the younger 
 sister; and it seemed a dispensation of Provi- 
 dence into which it would have been im- 
 pertinent to enquire too closely when a doctor 
 from one of the neighbouring villages, who 
 was vaguely understood to have recently 
 come into some money, and to have bought 
 a practice in London, proposed to Leila. 
 She accepted him, as a matter of course. 
 He was fifteen years her senior, but he was 
 very handsome and very pleasant ; she liked 
 him very much, and if anything more was
 
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 necessary she did not know it. Her girl- 
 hood had been quite happy in its colourless 
 contentment, and in the same colourless 
 contentment she went away with her hus- 
 band into her new life, a girl of eighteen, 
 with all her character and her future to be 
 moulded by his hands. 
 
 If the Mrs. Custance who was accepted 
 by Norman Strange as the middle-aged wife 
 of a middle-aged man, had had imagination 
 enough to conjure up before her present 
 self a picture of the eighteen-year-old girl 
 who had left her uncle's house only eight 
 years before, she would not have recognised 
 the picture ; she would have been unable to 
 realise that she had ever been other than she 
 now was. There had been no shock of 
 disappointment, for she had expected no- 
 thing ; no sharp surtering, for it had all come 
 about so naturally, and keen pain was as
 
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 foreign to her nature as keen pleasure. Her 
 husband had grown tired of her ; she had 
 subsided from bride to wife — as such a 
 man as she had married understands 
 the word. The faint Hking she had 
 had for him died gradually away, and as 
 gradually a faint fear of him rose in her and 
 became the only sentiment with which he 
 inspired her. They had been very poor, and 
 life had been dull and grey and very 
 lonely, though she hardly realised it. Her 
 sister had gone to India, and after her 
 marriage she had never revisited her Devon- 
 shire home. The friends of her girlhood had 
 passed out of her life with girlhood itself; 
 she had indeed no friends, properly so called. 
 Such slight acquaintances as she made found 
 her dull and uninteresting ; and she, shy and 
 ill-assured, had been unable to pass beyond 
 the stiffest stage of conventionality. There
 
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 had only once been a time when she had 
 been conscious of unhappiness, when her 
 desire for the touch of baby hands — a desire 
 never to be satisfied — had been a dull in- 
 cessant ache. But that was long ago now, 
 and it had died away, numbed by the passing 
 of monotonous years. When she had come 
 to Thornsdyke with her husband, a year 
 before the coming of Norman Strange, her 
 youth was past at twenty-six, as though it 
 had never been, and she had been unhesi- 
 tatingly accepted by the neighbourhood as a 
 rather stupid and shy little middle-aged 
 woman. 
 
 Nervous and uncertain as her manner 
 always was, there was something about her 
 subdued and absolutely crushed throughout 
 the evening that followed upon her 
 frightened and apparently fruitless appeal to 
 Norman Strange. Dr. Custance returned'
 
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 from his horse-dealing expedition in a 
 decidedly unpleasant frame of mind, but 
 even his sarcasm could add little to her 
 shrinking, unobtrusive, evidently entirely 
 unconscious depression. Her face was 
 very small and white, and there were red 
 rims round her eyes. 
 
 There was a dumb misery in those blue 
 eyes, and with it a forlorn, inarticulate 
 appeal, as she lifted them momentarily to 
 his face as she and Norman Strange met 
 at supper. They rested on a white, set face 
 with haggard eyes, which looked to them, 
 if possible, more desperate than before, and 
 then they fell, the misery in them stronger 
 than ever. She did not look at him again, 
 even when she wished him an inaudible good 
 night, and she did not offer him her hand. 
 Something in her tone and manner suggested 
 that she dared not.
 
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 Throughout the next day she saw him 
 only at supper, when he came into the room 
 looking very tired. He had been walking 
 all day, he explained briefly, in answer to 
 Robert Caton's comments. The explana- 
 tion was apparently by no means satisfactory 
 to Caton, and with a covert sneer he 
 plunged into an ostentatiously intimate dis- 
 cussion with Dr. Custance, to the complete 
 exclusion of any third person. • 
 
 No sooner had Norman disappeared, 
 however — and he did so directly supper 
 was over — than Caton, who was accustomed 
 to ignore Mrs. Custance's presence with as 
 little ceremony as did her husband, broke 
 into a coarse tirade against him. To his 
 fellow '* patient" Norman's reserve and the 
 heavy shadow of despair that hung about 
 him was neither more nor less than "con- 
 founded humbug and unsociableness"; and
 
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 he proceeded to dilate upon the subject with 
 great energy and force of language, while 
 Dr. Custance threw in here and there a 
 remark of as soothing a nature as possible. 
 Neither of them noticed that when the 
 torrent of abuse was at its highest, Mrs. 
 Custance rose, shaking from head to foot, 
 and left the room with her blue eyes quite 
 bright. 
 
 She was in the dining-room on the 
 morning following, spending the hours be- 
 tween breakfast and lunch, as she generally 
 did spend them, in dreary solitude, her 
 fingers occupied with the monotonous needle- 
 work which was her only occupation ; her 
 little figure in the dull, silent room, looking 
 dreary enough against its background of 
 rain-blurred window-panes. It was a wet 
 morning, wet enough, at present, to keep 
 indoors any one whose duty did not call
 
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 129 
 
 him out, and she had heard, as she moved 
 about the house on her household duties, the 
 voices ot Robert Caton and her husband as 
 they established themselves in the smoking- 
 room to spend an idle morning. She had 
 been sitting alone for nearly an hour, when 
 the door opened, and lifting her eyes with a 
 start, she met those of Norman Strange, 
 who was standing in the doorway. 
 
 ** Mrs. Custance," he said, " may I come 
 and sit in here ? Shall I be in your way ? 
 I am rather tired of smoke." 
 
 There was an instant's pause, and Mrs.. 
 Custance sat, her needle resting in her hand, 
 her face lifted to him, with the lips a little 
 parted, as though in some sudden shock 
 of surprise. Then she answered quickly, 
 and rather incoherently : 
 
 " Not at all ! Oh, no ! I mean I shall 
 be very glad if you will come." 
 
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 He had brought with him no book — no 
 occupation of any kind, and for some minutes 
 he sat motionless, with his arms folded on 
 the table, and his eyes fixed on the thin 
 hands of his hostess, moving again now, 
 but moving rapidly and awkwardly under 
 his unseeing gaze. Then he said absently : 
 
 *' It is very good of you to have me 
 here." 
 
 The quiet of the room and the gentle 
 womanly presence were very pleasant to 
 him, though he did not trace his sense of 
 rest to that, or, indeed, to any definite 
 source. 
 
 She did not answer, except In a faint, 
 hardly articulate murmur of deprecation ; 
 but she lifted her eyes hurriedly to his face 
 and dropped them Instantly again. There 
 was another pause, and then he said slowly 
 and ponderlngly :
 
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 " Mrs. Custance, do you really think 
 there would be any chance for me ? " 
 
 Her fingers tightened suddenly on the 
 piece of work she held, and she turned her 
 face to him mutely as though quite unable 
 to find any words in the sudden surprise 
 and hope which quivered for an instant 
 in her face. But he had apparently asked 
 the question more for the sake of giving 
 it words than with any wish for her opinion, 
 and he went on unanswered : 
 
 " I wonder whether you know how It's 
 been with me ? " and hardly waiting for 
 her sympathetic murmur, he told her all 
 the story. He was evidently telling it 
 more to himself than to her, and he made 
 it as black as the plain facts could be made. 
 But there were the plain facts only, with 
 none of the morbidness which had given 
 them their hopelessness, and as he finished, 
 
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 132 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 terrible as it was, the end was not final. 
 It was obviously not a story of irretrievable 
 disgrace. 
 
 And not even the wholly new significance 
 about the end of the story stood out in 
 stronger contrast to the tone of the man of 
 thirty-six hours before than did the manner 
 of the telling — grave and stern, but desperate 
 and reckless no longer, The whole per- 
 sonality of the man was altered. His face 
 was haggard still, but it was haggard with 
 long strain of thought, and not with hopeless 
 misery. The hard constraint was gone from 
 his voice. 
 
 Over the dull despair of Norman 
 Strange's life a change had come indeed, and 
 it had not come lightly. As there are 
 physical diseases for which the cure must be 
 sought In pain, so the first stirring In him of 
 desire and hope of redemption had tortured
 
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 him as his hopelessness itself had never 
 done. When and how the thought of 
 possible salvation had dawned in him he 
 never knew. The stress of the struggle 
 with himself and with his morbid despair 
 into which it slowly ripened obscured alto- 
 gether its dim beginnings, and the words in 
 which it had in truth originated — words 
 uttered by the little woman to whom he 
 hardly gave a thought — were almost forgotten 
 by him. He had come to Mrs. Custance 
 this morning with a hazy remembrance only 
 of their interview of two days before ; come 
 to her, indeed, with a vague sense that 
 between them the ice was already broken ; 
 but mainly because she was a woman, and 
 his nature was one craving that expression 
 that only a woman would allow him. 
 
 Having spoken he paused — paused so 
 long that the quivering lips of the woman
 
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 who had listened to him were parted, as 
 though with a tremendous effort, to falter 
 out words which would have been a poor 
 reflection of her confused feelings, when he 
 said slowly — and in the words the change in 
 him seemed to touch Its consummation : 
 
 " Perhaps, after all, I'm nothing but a 
 coward ! Perhaps I might do something 
 with my life, even now ! The man who 
 
 hasn't courage to show fight " The last 
 
 word came from him with an unmistakable 
 ring and he broke off, rose suddenly, and 
 turned to the window. 
 
 '' You will ! Oh, you will ! " 
 
 Vaguely as she had understood him, far 
 above the level of her stunted spiritual 
 understanding as was the long-dormant im- 
 pulse which was stirring in him once again, 
 the main fact at its simplest was clear to her. 
 The words she spoke were stifled, suppressed,
 
 A MERE CYPHER 135 
 
 hopelessly Inadequate, but she was shaking 
 from head to foot, her eyes were full of tears, 
 and her lips trembled. He turned his head 
 as she spoke and as his eyes fell on her face, 
 and on the hands clasped tightly together as 
 though in self-repression, something in them 
 touched him. 
 
 " Poor little woman ! " he said to him- 
 self vaguely. **' Poor little woman ! " 
 
 She was not pretty ; there was no yotith 
 about her to affect him ; she had none of 
 that confidence in the power of her sex 
 which is a woman's weapon. She had no 
 confidence at all. He was not conscious of 
 her influence as he must have been had it 
 been exercised in any of the ordinary 
 womanly ways ; but about her very weakness, 
 her ungainly fadedness, in the deprecating 
 appeal which strove to declare itself on her 
 dull face, there was a power which swayed
 
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 him, unrecognised as it was, and swayed him 
 for his good. He looked at her for a 
 moment and then answered her gently and 
 quickly, speaking even protectingly and re- 
 assuringly. 
 
 " I will, Mrs. Custance," he said. "Yes, 
 indeed I will!" 
 
 And In those words, almost without 
 consciousness of what he was doing, he took 
 his first definite step back to his lost self- 
 respect ; for as he uttered them they became 
 a pledge with himself. 
 
 " I am so glad ! " 
 
 She spoke the words in a low, jerky 
 tone, which did not serve to lessen their 
 futility, but by this time it had become 
 natural to Norman Strange to make allow- 
 ances for her. The painful tension that 
 must, under any other circumstances, have 
 attended the resolution at which he had just
 
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 arrived was hardly felt by him in the 
 instinct to put her at her ease ; the deeper 
 issues of the moment seemed to stand aside, 
 and he smiled as he said : 
 
 " And I may think of you as my 
 friend?" 
 
 ** If — if you care to," she faltered. " I'm 
 afraid " 
 
 She did not finish her sentence. It was 
 a habit of hers to leave sentences unfinished 
 as though she had realised half-way through 
 that they could be of no interest to any one. 
 But the self-depreciation of her tone was not 
 unpleasant to him ; on the contrary, it fell 
 gratefully on his broken self-esteem, and 
 seemed to throw his humiliation further into 
 the background. With the stirring of his self- 
 respect something of the superiority of clever 
 young manhood touched him again, and it 
 made his tone very pleasant as he said :
 
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 •* You are only too good to me ! " 
 
 The words seemed to recall him to the 
 present, and he turned to the window again 
 with a sudden shadow on his face, and a 
 short, sharp sigh. 
 
 The rain, which earlier in the morning 
 had threatened to last all day, had ceased, 
 and a watery gleam of sunshine was 
 struggling for existence with the clouds. 
 The garden over which the window looked 
 was separated by a hedge from the road to 
 the village, and at the bottom of the garden 
 Norman Strange's eyes fell upon a figure, 
 the sight of which deepened the shadow 
 in them — the figure of Robert Caton. He 
 was leaning over the hedge, evidently talking 
 to some one in the road, and the next instant 
 Norman Strange saw that that some one was 
 the handsome girl at the village post office. 
 
 Two days before, Norman Strange, in
 
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 his heavy disregard of everything about 
 him, v^ould have noticed nothing ; would 
 have looked at Robert Caton with only a 
 shuddering sense of their fellowship. But 
 to-day in his newly-roused condition he was 
 struck by something significant about the 
 picture made by the man and the girl as she 
 lingered in the road with her handsome face 
 turned towards him as he leant over the 
 hedge. 
 
 There was something in the outline of 
 Caton's pose, something coarse and familiar 
 in his oresture as he talked to her, which 
 made the man who watched glance with a 
 sudden youthful indignation at the face of 
 the listening girl. He was wishing vaguely 
 that he could see its expression, when he 
 heard Mrs. Custance say: 
 
 ** Ah, there is Alice ! Is she coming fo' 
 a lesson, I wonder ? " She paused a moment
 
 I40 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 she had come up to him, and was looking 
 past him out of the window. " I wish she 
 would not talk so much to Mr. Caton ! " she 
 murmured uneasily. 
 
 With a chivalrous instinct against watch- 
 ing the girl, Norman Strange turned from 
 the window, speaking lightly and easily as 
 though he had seen nothing. 
 
 ** Miss Alice, whoever she may be, doesn't 
 look as though she were likely to be a very 
 docile pupil. What do you teach her, may I 
 ask, Mrs. Custance ? " 
 
 " Oh, I teach her — it's nothing. Alice is 
 much cleverer than I am. I only show her 
 about needlework. She is such a good girl 
 at the bottom, only she is not like other 
 girls." 
 
 " She isn't like most other girls to 
 look at, certainly. Who is she, Mrs. 
 Custance ? "
 
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 " She's — oh, she's one of the village 
 girls ; her grandmother, who brought her 
 up, is the post-mistress. She brought her 
 up very badly, I'm afraid, for she's dread- 
 fully — dreadfully headstrong. I'm teaching 
 her needlework, because when her grand- 
 mother dies she must keep herself somehow 
 — I don't believe she'll ever marry ; she's 
 dreadful to all the young men about — and 
 she says she won't ever be a servant. 
 And, indeed, I don't think she would ever 
 get a place." 
 
 Mrs. Custance stopped abruptly as 
 though self-convicted of having made a 
 very long speech ; her subject had evidently 
 been very near her heart, and Norman 
 Strange said interestedly : 
 
 " And so you teach her needlework ? 
 That is very good of you, isn't it ? " 
 
 *' Oh, no," she answered with some
 
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 surprise in her tone. "It is good of her 
 to let me try and help her." 
 
 She was looking uneasily out of the 
 window as she spoke, and Norman Strange 
 knew that the pair on either side of the 
 hedge were still there, even before she 
 interrupted herself suddenly, and said in 
 an undertone with a slight sigh of relief: 
 
 " Ah, here she comes ! " The words 
 had been merely a parenthesis, and Mrs. 
 Custance turned away from the window 
 as she went on : "I am very fond of her, 
 and I know — there was a little baby in 
 the village, the child of the woman in the 
 next cottage to the Eades, and its mother 
 died." She stopped as if too little used 
 to being listened to to tell the story she 
 had evidently begun upon. " The baby 
 died," she said, '' and I've known Alice 
 ever since.''
 
 A MERE CYPHER 143 
 
 ** And she knows you ? " he suggested 
 h'ghtly and courteously. 
 
 " She is fond of me," she answered 
 simply. " They say — she says — " she paused 
 and finished — *' I am very fond of her." 
 
 Mrs. Custance turned to the table and 
 took up her work again, and Norman 
 Strange said : 
 
 " The lesson comes off here, no doubt, 
 Mrs. Custance, and I should be in the 
 way, I'm afraid. It is fairly fine now, 
 you see, and I will go for a walk." 
 
 She murmured something hesitating and 
 inaudible, and taking the murmur to signify 
 assent he responded pleasantly and moved 
 down the room with a smile of farewell. 
 He did not see her eyes, as they followed 
 him with mute distress and uncertainty in 
 their glance; but turning, with his hand 
 on the door, the solitariness of the fio^ure
 
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 he was leaving struck him forcibly. He 
 paused. 
 
 " Are you generally at work In here in 
 the morning, Mrs. Custance?" he said. 
 ** May I come and read to you sometimes, or 
 would it bore you ? " 
 
 *'0h, no! I should — it would be so nice 
 — only — it's very kind. Wouldn't it be a 
 trouble to you ? " 
 
 There was such genuine eagerness, 
 astonishment, and self-depreciation in her 
 tone, it put him into the position of conferring 
 so great a favour, that no good-natured 
 young man who had once had his fair share 
 of pleasure in that position, and a fair sense 
 of his own value, could fail to be touched by 
 it. Norman Strange had never thought to 
 find himself looked up to, to find himself an 
 object for gratitude again ; his self-respect 
 revived still further, and something of his
 
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 old enthusiasm stirred in him again as he 
 responded eagerly, unconsciously accepting, 
 in the very graclousness of his tone and 
 manner, the position she allotted to him. 
 
 *' It would be a pleasure, on the contrary." 
 He paused, and then remembering their first 
 walk together and her ignorance on the 
 subject of Thornsdyke church, he added, in 
 the same tone: ** Perhaps you might like to 
 get up some architecture, Mrs. Custance .^ 
 It would be the greatest pleasure to me to 
 help you, if you would care about It. I'll 
 see about some books." 
 
 His hand was still upon the door-handle, 
 but as he spoke the last words he drew back 
 as a sharp tap fell upon the other side of the 
 door. 
 
 "Thank you! Oh, come in! It's very 
 kind I " said Mrs. Custance confusedly, and 
 then the door opened and Alice Eade came in. 
 
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 *' Did you expect me, Mrs. Custance?" 
 she said. *' I couldn't remember what we 
 arranged." 
 
 Her face was flushed, and she spoke 
 rather hurriedly, taking no notice of Norman. 
 
 " I think we arranged for this afternoon, 
 Alice," returned Mrs. Custance ; " but it 
 doesn't matter in the least — not in the least," 
 she repeated, as the girl uttered a quick 
 exclamation of regret. " This will suit me 
 quite as well ; I've — I've nothing to do." 
 
 She glanced at Norman as she spoke, 
 and Alice Eade turned to him. 
 
 " Good morning," she said. 
 
 ** Good morning," he returned pleasantly, 
 looking at her with eyes quite other than 
 the haggard, uninterested ones with which 
 he had seen her on the occasion of their 
 two previous meetings. ** Well, Mrs. Cus- 
 tance, I won't interrupt," and with another
 
 A MERE CYPHER. 147 
 
 " Good morning " to the girl, he left the 
 room. 
 
 "Why does she let that fellow speak 
 to her ? " he said to himself. He did not 
 know how strong a token of returning 
 mental health lay in the fact that his 
 thoughts as he went towards the front door 
 did not revert immediately to himself. And 
 the youthful chivalrous indignation for the 
 girl was not a more significant sign of his 
 reversion to his old self than was the fact 
 that Caton figured in his thoughts as " that 
 fellow," with none of that bitter sense of 
 his own equality with his fellow - patient 
 which had made every thought of the latter 
 a hideous humiliation to him. " Why does 
 she let him speak to her ? They looked 
 from that window What's he doing ? " 
 
 More than once — with increasing fre- 
 quency, indeed — during the days that 
 
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 followed, Norman Strange asked himself 
 the same uneasy question. It seemed to 
 him that he never met or heard of Alice 
 Eade without a suggestion of Caton in the 
 background. And it so happened that he 
 saw a good deal of her. She was often 
 at the White House, and he chanced to 
 meet her frequently about the village and 
 in his country walks. 
 
 The interest in her, which had been 
 stirred by the merest accident, almost simul- 
 taneously with the renewal of his old force ; 
 an interest quickened by the vague uneasiness 
 for her created in his mind by the picture 
 she had made with Caton as he looked at 
 them from the window ; seemed to develope 
 as that force developed, and to belong 
 naturally and as a matter of course to his 
 new life.
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 For to all intents and purposes It was a new 
 life that Norman Strange led as the windy 
 March days followed one upon another ; or 
 rather, it was a renewal of the life that had 
 seemed to have completely passed away. 
 The struggle involved was fierce, at times 
 agonising. Half-hearted action, gradual or 
 tentative measures were impossible to him ; 
 what he did he must needs do hotly. Having 
 decided with himself that his position might 
 indeed yet be retrieved he threw himself 
 into the contest with a certain ardour of self- 
 conquest, a certain fierce exultation In the 
 thought of riding rough-shod over weakness
 
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 and faint-heartedness. He anticipated only 
 the mental difficulty of sustaining his new 
 faith in the possibility of such retrieval. He 
 fortified himself mainly to do battle with his 
 own despair, and he overlooked altogether 
 the awful power of the master whose slave 
 he had become. The shock of finding that 
 despair and faint-heartedness were not the 
 only forces arrayed against him ; the self- 
 loathing and contempt induced in him by the 
 physical suffering which he could only endure 
 and by no means prevent ; almost threw him 
 once more off his balance when he first 
 realised the truth. The check had come only 
 just in time. A litde later and the physical 
 difficulties might have been insuperable, 
 except with years of treatment, and even as 
 It was he suffered terribly. There came 
 hours when the horrible craving — by which 
 at the same time he felt himself unspeakably
 
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 degraded — was almost more than he could 
 bear, when he could hardly force himself to 
 speak or move without some hideous out- 
 break, when to meet his own eyes in the look- 
 ing-glass was to meet incarnate temptation. 
 
 He never thought of reading the 
 frightened blue eyes that watched him at 
 such times with such a misery of impotent 
 sorrow and longing. But often and often — 
 and even in his worst moments this would 
 happen — he was faintly conscious of an 
 appeal in them ; an appeal which stirred his 
 gentleness and his consideration ; an appeal 
 which — though he only thought vaguely of not 
 distressing Mrs. Custance, as he would have 
 thought it brutal to frighten a child— stood 
 between him and the demon he had fostered 
 
 Everything that external temptation 
 could add to internal craving was supplied ta 
 the situation by Robert Caton, by whom the
 
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 line taken by the man in whom he had 
 expected to find a boon companion was 
 regarded as neither more nor less than a 
 personal insult. He tried good fellowship; 
 he tried coarse laughter. He even en- 
 deavoured to enlist Dr. Custance by jeering 
 at him as to his probable loss of a portion of 
 his income, but Dr. Custance smiled in- 
 dolently and took the whole affair as a jest. 
 And as the days passed Norman Strange 
 saw less and less of either of the other two 
 men. He drifted gradually into spending 
 the greater part of his time with Mrs. Cus- 
 tance. In the intervals between his darkest 
 hours — intervals, each one of which saw him 
 more nearly his old self — she was at once a 
 rest and an occupation to him. His read- 
 ings to her diverged rapidly in all directions. 
 There was hardly any point on which they 
 touched on which she did not lack informa-
 
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 tlon, and to his youthful energy in Impart- 
 ing knowledge the fact that his pupil was 
 rather dull was hardly a drawback. She was 
 apparently never tired of listening, and the 
 ardour of youth was never tired of laying 
 down the law. She evidently looked up 
 with timid admiration to his learning, and 
 his intellect generally, and an instinct of 
 kindly superiority towards her developed in 
 him rapidly. He had been conscious now 
 and then, even from the very first, of being 
 rather sorry for her, and this feeling, too, 
 developed with time, though he hardly knew 
 why. No one seemed to consider her, and 
 her life seemed to him on the whole a grey 
 affair. 
 
 And still as the weeks went on ; as the 
 struggle grew less painful, and he became 
 more and more himself; as his old chivalry, 
 his old enthusiasm for truth and justice and
 
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 right revived in him again ; an uneasy sense 
 of some as yet undefined demand made on 
 his manhood by AHce Eade grew upon him. 
 It would not have been Hke him to reflect 
 that, after all, the wrongs — even if she should 
 have wrongs — of a stray young woman in 
 the villaore could be no concern of his. He 
 thought vaguely that she was a protegee of 
 Mrs. Custance's ; that the dreadful fellow- 
 ship he himself had acknowledged with 
 Caton constituted some kind of indefinite 
 claim on him, but probably his desire to 
 protect her if she should need protection 
 went deeper than either of these fanciful 
 causes, and had its root in inbred quixotism. 
 He knew that the girl met Caton constantly. 
 Once, knowing that Caton was waiting for 
 her, he had walked with her himself down to 
 the village under pretext of a necessity for 
 stamps.
 
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 " She doesn't thank me," he said to him- 
 self on that occasion. "If she only knew 
 what a brute he Is ! " 
 
 But he did not see his way to en- 
 lightening her on the subject either then or 
 at any of their subsequent meetings, though, 
 as has been said, these were frequent. He 
 thought of speaking to Mrs, Custance on the 
 subject, but not being, as he said to himself, 
 " either an old woman or a cad," he foufld 
 this course also closed to him. Then there 
 grew upon him a conviction that the only 
 thing to be done was for him to ''have it 
 out " with Robert Caton. 
 
 Nearly two months had passed since his 
 coming to the White House, and it was on 
 an April afternoon that he finally put his 
 characteristically straightforward but some- 
 what desperate resolution into effect. It 
 was a desperate resolution because he had
 
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 absolutely nothing to go upon ; all the 
 significance of the situation lay in such 
 subtleties as would not be expressed in 
 words ; and the interview was as futile as it 
 could not fail to be. Caton laughed inso- 
 lently at him, and if his manner intensified 
 Norman's distrust, it gave him no more 
 tangible ground for it. Caton was master of 
 the situation, and with a coarse jest and 
 laugh in his ears Norman left him abruptly, 
 conscious of having put himself hopelessly in 
 the wrong, and burning with impotent indig- 
 nation. He took his hat and burst out of 
 the house, thinking that a walk would cool 
 him and settle his disturbed thoughts. He 
 took a short cut down a lane to the high- 
 road — a lane little used except by the 
 inmates of the White House — and turning 
 a corner sharply he came upon a sight that 
 tended little to compose him. Alice Eade
 
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 was sauntering to and fro evidently waiting 
 for some one. Norman Strange pulled up 
 short. 
 
 *' Good evening," he said. 
 
 *' Good evening, Mr. Strange," she 
 answered carelessly, though her colour had 
 heightened considerably. They were very 
 close together In the narrow lane, and at the 
 moment, from the opposite direction to that 
 in which Norman had come, an old man 
 appeared. They drew back to let him pass, 
 and as Norman recognised the acknowledged 
 scandal-monger of the village he turned 
 away with, an Irrepressible gesture of an- 
 noyance, and cut at the weeds In the hedge- 
 row with his stick. It seemed to him that 
 the old man must inevitably put upon Alice 
 Eade's presence In the little-used lane the 
 construction that he himself had put upon it. 
 If any other possibility occurred to the
 
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 girl it seemed to amuse her rather than 
 otherwise, for as the old man passed she 
 turned to Norman with a mischievous toss of 
 her head, and a sparkle of roguery in her 
 eyes, and said lightly : 
 
 " It's a splendid evening for a walk, isn't 
 it, Mr. Strange?" 
 
 Norman did not answer her. He 
 watched the old man out of sight and then* 
 turned quickly towards her. 
 
 *' Miss Eade," he said, quickly and 
 impulsively, " hadn't you better go home ? " 
 
 And then he coloured like a girl, lifted 
 his hat hurriedly, and disappeared round the 
 turn of the lane.
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 "There, Mrs. Custance ! That's as fine a 
 bit of descriptive writing as you can meet 
 anywhere ! There is another bit here, now ! " 
 Norman Strange took up the book, whicH 
 he had laid down as he spoke in a tone full 
 of fire and animation, and began to turn the 
 leaves eagerly over. 
 
 He was sitting by the table in the dining- 
 room, his chair pushed back from it, his legs 
 stretched out under it, his folded arms rest- 
 ing upon it in an attitude of concentrated 
 mental energy and physical unconsciousness 
 that was characteristic of him. He was 
 surrounded by a confusion of books of all
 
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 descriptions. Opposite him, with her needle- 
 work in her hand, sat Mrs. Custance. She 
 had been listening to his spirited reading 
 with her head bent over the work, in and out 
 of which her needle moved rather slowly ; 
 and as he stopped speaking she lifted her 
 head, either as though in expectation of the 
 coming extract or as though the sudden ces- 
 sation of sound had interrupted some train of 
 thought in her mind, and looked across the 
 table at him as he sat engrossed in his search. 
 The searching sunlight of a bright May- 
 day fell full upon his face as he faced the 
 open window, lighting up unsparingly every 
 line of it ; and it fell upon a face so different 
 from the haggard, miserable mask that 
 Norman Strange had worn on his first 
 coming to the White House, that the very 
 features were hardly recognisable as the 
 same. The constraint was gone from it;
 
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 the bitterness was gone from It ; the despair 
 was gone from it. It was still pale, but no 
 longer with the pallor of ill-health ; it was 
 still thin, but it was the thinness of an 
 intellectual man in excellent physical training. 
 The eyes were bright and clear, and the 
 whole face was alight and aglow with 
 interest, energy, and life. 
 
 It was nearly three months now since 
 Norman Strange had determined to retrieve 
 the past, and he had never wavered. To all 
 intents and purposes he was now his old self 
 again ; on the surface, indeed, strangely his 
 own self ; youthful, confident, eager as ever ; 
 unaltered, apparently, by all that he had 
 suffered. The developements and changes 
 brought about by his bitter experience and 
 his valiant self-conquest, lay in the depths of 
 his nature ; in an added strength ; in a purity 
 and steadiness of principle having its root 
 
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 now In the deliberate choice of manhood 
 rather than in the unstable enthusiasm of 
 youth ; in a germ which life had yet to 
 develope of that peculiar sympathy and 
 tenderness for humanity which only sin and 
 repentance can produce. 
 
 He turned the pages of his book im- 
 petuously, and Mrs. Custance watched him 
 quietly. Their two faces were a curious 
 contrast. His so alert, intellectual and ex- 
 pressive ; hers so wanting in life, so utterly 
 without that glow and colour that comes 
 from within, so subdued and insignificant. 
 And yet as she watched him there seemed 
 to pass from his face to hers a strange, faint, 
 ghostly reflection of his brightness. Exactly 
 what it was or in which of her pale, dull 
 features it lay, it would have been impossible 
 to say ; but it was there and her whole face 
 was changed by it.
 
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 *' Here it is, Mrs. Custance ! " exclaimed 
 Norman at last. *' I think you'll like this ! " 
 He was very careful to adapt his selections 
 to her capacity, taking a kindly, lofty pride 
 in not ''going over the poor little woman's 
 head," as he had said to himself once. 
 " Just listen to this ! " 
 
 But Mrs. Custance was not destined to 
 listen after all, though she took up her 
 work again and prepared obediently to do 
 so. Norman Strange's first sentence was 
 cut short by the entrance of the servant 
 with a note for her mistress, and as Mrs. 
 Custance took it her face changed very 
 slightly and was its subdued self again. 
 
 "I'm very sorry," she said apologetically 
 to Norman as the servant left the room. 
 ** I won't read it yet. Please go on, if 
 you don't mind." 
 
 "There's no hurry, Mrs. Custance," he 
 
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 i64 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 returned, with a certain gracious con- 
 descension that was too frankly youthful 
 to be unpleasant. " We've been very hard 
 at work. Let us take a rest. I don't 
 know how you can suggest keeping that 
 important - looking document waiting," he 
 added with a laugh. 
 
 " It's from the Warrens at Sletton," 
 she answered ; '' Kathleen Warren's writing 
 is so large. I wonder what it can be 
 about ? " 
 
 She took up the envelope hesitatingly 
 and opened it as he said : 
 
 " That's the young lady we pulled out 
 of a ditch the other day, isn't it ? " 
 
 " Yes," she answered. ** It is an in- 
 vitation for a tennis - party on Friday." 
 She read it through with a certain careful 
 precision — an invitation was a rare cir- 
 cumstance and one of rather overwhelming
 
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 importance to her — and then with a faint, 
 nervous flush in her cheeks she said very 
 tentatively : " They will be so pleased if 
 you will go over there with us for the 
 tennis - party. They want us all to go. 
 Will you" — she hesitated — ''will you care 
 about it ? " 
 
 She handed the letter timidly to him 
 and took up her work again. During 
 his first weeks at the White House, 
 Norman Strange had given it to be under- 
 stood that he would go nowhere. All 
 invitations extended to him out of the 
 mixture of curiosity and compassion felt 
 by the country round for Dr. Custance's 
 *' patients" were, indeed, abhorrent to him 
 in his morbid misery, and even since his 
 recovery he had avoided introductions. 
 He had made the acquaintance of the 
 Miss Warren in question, however — the
 
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 pretty daughter of some rich people Hving 
 about three miles away — in an uncon- 
 ventional manner, by helping her in a 
 difficulty with an obstinate pony, and he 
 answered Mrs. Custance cheerily as he 
 glanced over the letter. 
 
 '' I will go with pleasure, Mrs. Custance, 
 if you think of going. Rather jolly sort 
 of affair, I should think ? " 
 
 "They know every one for miles 
 round," returned Mrs. Custance with a 
 faint sigh, as if the prospect before her 
 were terrible to her shyness. " Yes, we 
 shall go, I expect. Mr. Caton is asked. 
 I wonder whether he will be well enough 
 to go?" 
 
 She spoke the last words in her ordinary 
 hesitating voice, but in the most matter-of- 
 fact way. Her own intense distaste to 
 going out with Robert Caton had never been
 
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 of the faintest consequence to any one, 
 and it never occurred to her to complain. 
 Norman glanced at her now with a quick 
 flash of pity, which the thought of her in con- 
 nection with Caton always stirred in him, and 
 said rather constrainedly : 
 
 ** Dr. Custance considers him almost 
 recovered, I believe." 
 
 A sudden suspension of Norman's 
 anxieties for Alice Eade had been brought 
 about the very day after his meeting with 
 her in the lane by an accident to Robert 
 Caton, which, trivial to another man, 
 threatened serious results to him. He broke 
 his arm and was laid up for a fortnight with 
 sufficient fever to give Dr. Custance a great 
 deal of trouble. And before he was about 
 again another event occurred that made it 
 unlikely that he would have any further 
 opportunities of rousing Norman's ire as
 
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 far as Mrs. Custance's handsome protegee 
 was concerned. Alice Eade's grandmother, 
 and only relation, an old woman who had 
 long been ailing, died suddenly, and left her 
 alone. She had no means of supporting her- 
 self in Thornsdyke, and Mrs. Custance 
 arranged for her going without delay to a 
 small dressmaking firm in Newcastle, as 
 apprentice. It had seemed probable at first 
 that she would have left the village before 
 Robert Caton was downstairs again, and 
 Norman had dismissed all perturbation on 
 her behalf from his mind. Her departure 
 had been delayed for one reason and another 
 more than once ; Robert Caton had been 
 about now for more than a fortnight, and she 
 was still alone in the cottage that had been 
 her grandmother's ; but to Norman the latter 
 arrangement was so temporary a state of 
 things, he looked upon the whole affair as
 
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 SO completely and necessarily over, that no 
 return of his former vague uneasiness was 
 possible to him. He no more thought her 
 choice of a subject a curious coincidence than 
 did Mrs. Custance herself, when the latter, 
 after the short silence that followed his last 
 words, said, with the mixture of timidity and 
 confidence which was the outcome of her 
 constant intercourse with Norman, and which 
 made her manner to him when they wfire 
 alone together quite different from her 
 manner to the rest of her world : 
 
 ** I hoped Alice would have gone to 
 Newcastle on Friday, but they have put her 
 off again this morning." 
 
 " You will miss her very much, I'm afraid, 
 Mrs. Custance." 
 
 At the same moment there came the tap 
 at the door that Norman Strange knew now 
 as well as Mrs. Custance did, and in answer
 
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 to the latter's rather surprised '' Come in ! " 
 Alice Eade in person opened the door. She 
 was dressed in a plain black dress, and 
 perhaps it was because neither of them was 
 used to its new setting, that her beauty 
 struck both Norman Strange and Mrs. 
 Custance — though their respective im- 
 pressions differed considerably in distinctness 
 of oudine — as being absolutely starding. 
 
 ** I know you didn't expect me this 
 morning," she said to Mrs. Custance, and 
 her vigorous, self-confident tone was a little 
 quicker and more resonant than usual. " But 
 I thought perhaps " She left her sen- 
 tence unfinished, a very unusual thing with 
 her, and glancing at Norman said carelessly : 
 " Good morning, Mr. Strange." 
 
 His first meeting with her after their 
 brief interview in the lane had been some- 
 what embarrassing to Norman, though he
 
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 had carried it off with himself with a hioh 
 
 o 
 
 hand. Perhaps it was fortunate that it did not 
 occur until after her grandmother's death had 
 necessarily thrown their last parting to some 
 extent into the background of her thoughts ; 
 at any rate the slightest possible undercurrent 
 in her manner to him, half mocking, half 
 scornful, constituted all the notice she 
 apparently cared to give it, and on the few 
 subsequent occasions of their meeting 'her 
 manner to him had been simply care- 
 less. Now, however, as he returned her 
 greeting, Norman wondered idly whether he 
 had done anything to offend her, or whether 
 she was simply annoyed at not finding Mrs. 
 Custance alone, for though her tone was 
 carelessness itself, her eyes, as she looked 
 towards him from Mrs. Custance, changed 
 to a look of hardness that was almost 
 defiance.
 
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 Acting on his last supposition he said 
 easily : 
 
 " Well, Mrs. Custance, I ought to do an 
 hour's work before dinner, and I will go and 
 do it. You are going to plunge into the 
 mysteries of needlework with Miss Eade, 
 no doubt, and I am very grateful to her for 
 bringing me up to the point." 
 
 And with a smile and a pleasant parting 
 word he left the room. He was working 
 steadily now at his old law work ; and he 
 was quite unconscious that he owed his first 
 impetus towards renewed study, not as he 
 believed, to his own energy, but to a few timid 
 incoherent words uttered in a low, uncertain 
 voice, in a pause in one of his monologues to 
 Mrs. Custance. 
 
 No sooner was the dining-room door shut 
 upon him than Alice Eade crossed the 
 room quickly and stood close to Mrs. Cus-
 
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 tance, looking down at her as she sat. The 
 handsome face with its bold, decided outlines 
 and its great black eyes, was no more capable 
 of delicate shades of expression than the 
 nature behind was capable of delicate shades 
 of feeling. But the broader, stronger passions 
 with which that nature was aglow were 
 always distinctly legible upon her features, 
 and as one impulse gave swift place to 
 another in her undisciplined heart the change 
 was as swiftly reflected upon her face. It 
 had changed now, curiously and completely, 
 since Norman Strange's departure. 
 
 " You don't mind my coming ? " she said 
 abruptly. 
 
 "Mind!" repeated Mrs. Custance with 
 gentle wonder. ** Of course not, Alice 1 Is 
 it something you want to ask me about that 
 dress ? Sit down, my dear." 
 
 But Alice did not sit down. She moved
 
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 with a vigorous, restless movement to the 
 window, and stood with her back to Mrs. 
 Custance as she answered : " No — I mean 
 yes ! " 
 
 She asked a trivial question on the 
 subject of the dress in question, and listened 
 to the simple answer, still standing with her 
 face turned away, and apparently without 
 paying much attention, for after Mrs. 
 Custance finished her explanation there was 
 a pause. Then the girl turned suddenly and 
 looked down at her again. 
 
 "What a lot of trouble you've taken 
 about me, Mrs. Custance I " she said in an odd 
 brusque tone, which harmonised strangely 
 with the rough affection on her face. " What 
 do you do it for ? " 
 
 Mrs. Custance smiled faintly. She 
 thought Alice was odd to-day, but she was 
 used to vigorous unconventionality from her.
 
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 '* I'm very fond of you, Alice," she said 
 simply. 
 
 *' It's very foolish of you ! " said the girl 
 with sudden energy. *' Yes, it is, Mrs. 
 Custance. Oh, I know ! You think because 
 I'm not the vixen they make me out down in 
 Thornsdyke that I'm all right, but I'm not, 
 and that's flat. P'raps you'll be sorry one 
 day ! " 
 
 " I don't think so, Alice." • 
 
 " I know you don't ! " was the quick, 
 vehement response. "That's because you're 
 like what you are, Mrs. Custance. You 
 think you've seen something good in me, I 
 tell you, and you think that it must be all 
 through the same. You wouldn't ever see 
 anything wrong if it wasn't as plain as print." 
 The girl paused a moment, and the affection 
 in her face was tempered by what in a more 
 refined nature would have been pity, but
 
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 which became in her coarser physique con- 
 tempt, for the simplicity of the small worn 
 face raised to hers. **Why don't you see 
 how bad everybody is?" she said vehemently. 
 '* Then you'd know how much better you are 
 than everybody, and you wouldn't let your- 
 self be so put upon all round. Why, there 
 isn't any one in the place but me knows what 
 you're like — how kind you are, and how 
 patient, and how you put up with one." 
 
 The face on which her eyes were fixed 
 with a kind of angry excitement was patient 
 enough, in truth, but it was also exceedingly 
 bewildered. Mrs. Custance, indeed, had 
 hardly taken in the actual words addressed 
 to her in her surprise at their general 
 drift. 
 
 " Alice ! " she said remonstratingly, 
 " Alice ! my dear ! * 
 
 ** You ought to think more of yourself.
 
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 Mrs. Custance. That's what you ought. 
 What's the use of letting every one look 
 down on you ? " She stopped abrupdy, 
 touched apparently by something in the blue 
 eyes to which no touch of offended dignity 
 had come. Quite suddenly all the coarse 
 contempt and aggression passed from her 
 flushed face to be succeeded by a passionate 
 self-loathing. With a sharp stamp of her 
 foot, the awkward, impotent gesture of *an 
 unemotional class where a girl of another 
 class would have flung herself upon her knees 
 beside the woman to whom she spoke, Alice 
 cried passionately : " I ought to be ashamed 
 of myself! I ought to be ashamed! When 
 I know how good you are ! Mrs. Custance, 
 Mrs. Custance, you know I'm grateful, you 
 do know I'm grateful.'^" 
 
 There was a passionate appeal, a passionate 
 self-reproach in her voice, and Mrs. Custance 
 
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 rose hurriedly and took one of the strong hot 
 hands into both her own small pale ones. 
 
 ** Of course I know, Alice," she said ; 
 ** don't be so excited. I don't know what 
 you've been talking about, or what you 
 mean, and I don't think you know either, 
 but you know that I am always your friend." 
 
 Good and bad, high and low, black and 
 white, the inevitable elements brought to 
 the making of every human being from 
 everlasting to everlasting ; in what pro- 
 portion these are found combined by nature 
 or by developement at certain moments of 
 a man's life, of which no other human being 
 can say, "It was then" or "then"; it. is 
 on this that the subsequent turn of every 
 individual life upwards or downwards de- 
 pends. Unknown to either Alice Eade's 
 moment came to her as she stood there with 
 her hand in Mrs. Custance's hand, and she
 
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 followed her strono^est bent. Mrs. Cus- 
 tance's words brought back her self-con- 
 fidence, and it came back hard and coarse 
 and slightly contemptuous of the gentleness, 
 the want of quickness, in a mind as slow 
 to apprehend as to resent. Her affection 
 remained, but it was her affection at its 
 lowest, its least perceptive and appreciative. 
 
 " You've always been kind to me, Mrs. 
 Custance,'' she said, and her tone now, 
 com.pared to that in which she had spoken 
 before, was almost careless ; '* I'm sure I 
 ask your pardon if I've said anything I 
 shouldn't. There' ve been so many changes, 
 you see, and what with one thing and 
 another I'm upset, I expect, and talk non- 
 sense. I must go home now." 
 
 The brilliancy and glow had come back 
 to her face as she spoke, and as she said 
 good-bye her beauty struck Mrs. Custance 
 
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 again with the vague shock of reahsation 
 she had felt on her entrance. She was 
 hardly conscious of any surprise when the 
 beautiful face, in what seemed to her at the 
 moment the natural conscious pride of its 
 beauty, bent suddenly and kissed her. 
 
 ** Good-bye, Mrs. Custance," said the 
 girl, " Good-bye." And then she was gone. 
 
 There was a vague sense of shock, of 
 bewilderment, and perplexity, in Mrs. Cus- 
 tance's mind when she was left alone, and 
 its traces were still visible in her manner 
 when luncheon-time came. Alice's visit had 
 caused her to forget some trifling order she 
 had had to give with regard to Robert 
 Caton's room, and the faltering apology 
 with which she met her husband's sarcastic 
 comments was uttered with eyes that were 
 unusually frightened and deprecating. Dr. 
 Custance himself, indeed, was unusually
 
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 severe, but Robert Caton, who still looked 
 weak and shattered and wore a sling, took 
 the affair very lightly, and was altogether 
 in boisterous spirits. 
 
 ** It's no matter," he said carelessly, when 
 Mrs. Custance apologised to him, '' It s no 
 matter. You'll soon be rid of me altogether. 
 A good riddance, too, eh, Mrs. Custance ? 
 There's one fellow here who thinks so, I 
 know," and he turned with a rough laugh 
 to Norman. " Heard the good news, Strange? 
 I'm going to relieve you of my company fot 
 six months at least. Off in a day or two."
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 ** By-the-bye, Mrs. Custance, I hear that 
 Mr. Caton is going away immediately. I 
 suppose he is incurable, poor man. Dear, 
 dear, a nice-looking young man, too, and very 
 agreeable except for that unfortunate failing. 
 It does seem very sad. When is he going ? " 
 
 " I think — that is — he is going to-morrow 
 morning. Dr. Custance — IMr. Caton — he 
 has been ill, you know, and he thinks a 
 thorough change " 
 
 It was a lovely May afternoon, hot with 
 the breath of coming summer, fresh and 
 gracious with the breath of passing spring. 
 The large gardens of Sletton Court, the
 
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 home of the young lady extricated by 
 Norman Strange from a ditch, were looking 
 their very best, and to the shy eyes of Mrs. 
 Custance the lawns presented a bewildering 
 confusion of people ; all constantly moving 
 to and fro, all talking and laughing ; all, as 
 far as the female contingent was concerned, 
 in bright summer frocks, which made her 
 look more insignificant and dowdy than ever. 
 She was sitting under a tree on a seat 
 which she had instinctively chosen as being 
 rather out of the way, but not sufficiently so 
 to be conspicuous, talking to, or rather being 
 talked to by, a stout, elderly lady of con- 
 siderable presence and apparently unlimited 
 curiosity. Mrs. Custance had in all innocent 
 unconsciousness, through sheer nervous in- 
 ability to carry on a conversation, foiled 
 several attempts on the part of her inter- 
 locutor to find out the nature and extent of
 
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 Dr. Custance's income, and a short pause had 
 ensued, during which Mrs. Custance's eyes 
 had wandered towards the tennis-courts, 
 which lay to the left on a lower lawn. She 
 had started and turned her eyes rather 
 hurriedly to her companion, apparently self- 
 convicted of wandering attention, as that lady 
 resumed the conversation with the question 
 as to Robert Caton's proceedings. 
 
 A thorough change after his illness was 
 in fact the reason given by Robert Caton for 
 his departure, and, as Mrs. Custance had 
 said, he was to leave Thornsdyke on the 
 following morning. The three days which 
 had elapsed between his announcement of his 
 intention and Mrs. Warren's tennis-party had 
 seen all his arrangements made and his very 
 train fixed, and these facts had had a strong 
 influence on the atmosphere of the White 
 House for those three days. The personal
 
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 contentment that Mrs. Custance felt In them 
 was as nothing against the access of nervous- 
 ness and hesitating timidity produced in her 
 by the increase of sarcasm and cold contempt 
 towards her which was the outcome of the 
 effect upon her husband's temper of the 
 anticipated loss of his *'patient.'' Her eyes 
 grew frightened now, and she hoped vaguely 
 that her companion would not speak to him 
 of Robert Caton as she saw her husband 
 coming towards them as they sat together 
 under the trees. 
 
 Dr. Custance came commissioned by 
 his hostess, he said, to see If the lady 
 who was sitting by his wife would take 
 some tea. The lady in question proving 
 more than willing, and his wife hurriedly 
 declining his careless invitation to herself, 
 the two moved away together. Left alone, 
 Mrs. Custance's eyes wandered back again
 
 i86 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 instinctively to the tennis-courts, and as 
 they did so up from the lower lawn came 
 Norman Strange and the master of the 
 house, a young man of about his own 
 age, Mrs. Warren's son. The former saw 
 her, made her a little gesture of greeting 
 with his racquet, and passed on laughing 
 and talking with the other and disappeared 
 into the house. 
 
 It was many months since Norman 
 had enjoyed himself with the simple ex- 
 hilaration of young animal spirits that he 
 was feeling this afternoon. In the old 
 days he had delighted in society, and it 
 was significant of the thoroughly healthy 
 tone which his mind had regained, that 
 no sooner had he found himself on Mrs. 
 Warren's lawn in the midst of a crowd of 
 young and apparently happy people than 
 his spirits had begun to rise. He gave
 
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 not a thought to his position, it never 
 occurred to him in his renewed self- 
 confidence and zest of Hfe that he was 
 there as Dr. Custance's *' patient," and he 
 threw himself into the spirit of the thing 
 with even more than his old enjoyment 
 and animation. He had talked and laughed 
 and made himself agreeable and useful by 
 handinof tea and ices with unfailino- readiness 
 and ease ; and, as a well-bred young man 
 of the world was rather a novelty in that 
 quiet country place, he had attracted a 
 good deal of attention. Finally he had 
 accepted from the young master of the 
 house the loan of the necessary shoes, etc.,, 
 and had played tennis with considerable 
 energy and science and immense enjoy- 
 ment, until young Warren came up to 
 him as he stood, hot, eager, and triumphant 
 after a long set, and said wiih a laugh :
 
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 "You've worked like a horse, and I'm 
 sure you must be done up. Come in with 
 me and have a drink." And Norman, 
 excited, pleased, and responsive, answered 
 lightly: 
 
 "Thanks. A drink would suit me 
 capitally." 
 
 Young Warren had, of course, heard 
 earlier in the afternoon that Norman 
 Strange had come with the Custances, 
 but seeing him so bright, popular, and 
 pleasant it had never entered his head to 
 identify him as one of the doctor's patients. 
 He supposed Norman to be a visitor at 
 the White House, and he had taken a 
 great fancy to him. The talk between 
 them was quick and interested as they 
 passed up the garden, and as they entered 
 the house the young host interrupted him- 
 self in a brisk hunting anecdote to say ;
 
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 *' I'm taking you to my smoking-room, 
 by-the-bye. I always make it a point 
 with my mother on these occasions to 
 have some drinks put there that a fellow 
 may have a chance of cooling down quiedy. 
 Who's here, I wonder ? " 
 
 He opened a door as he spoke and 
 disclosed a room in which there were 
 about half-a-dozen men. He introduced 
 Norman to two or three of those n5ar 
 the door, pressed him to help himself 
 from the trays on the table, and departed 
 with cheery zeal to do his duty elsewhere. 
 
 ''You've been playing a hard set!" 
 observed one of the men, a tall, muscular 
 young fellow to whom his host had par- 
 ticularly commended the new-comer, as 
 Norman's countenance became temporarily 
 eclipsed by a large tumbler of lemon and 
 soda. ''Take a cigarette and a chair."
 
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 "Thanks!" returned Norman readily. 
 It was delightful to him to find himself 
 once more in a smoking-room with " the 
 right sort of fellow," as he mentally 
 designated his present companions as he 
 elanced round him. He had seen on 
 his first entrance that Robert Caton was 
 one of a group at the far end of the 
 room ; but In his elation of spirits he was 
 prepared to ignore, and if necessary to 
 tolerate him on this, the last day on which 
 they would be even nominally associated. 
 And in the ardour of the conversation that 
 followed — a conversation on a neighbour- 
 ing election, w^hich had been interrupted by 
 his entrance and In which he was imme- 
 diately given a footing — he entirely for- 
 got his fellow "patient's" vicinity until an 
 opinion advanced by him was suddenly com- 
 mented on from the other end of the room
 
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 in the coarse voice and manner he knew 
 so well. 
 
 " You don't believe in wholesale pledges, 
 eh, Strange ? That's something new from 
 you ! 
 
 Robert Caton sauntered up as he spoke 
 and stood by the table, looking down at 
 Norman with an indescribably evil shadow 
 on his face as the latter leant back in his 
 chair, one leg thrown carelessly over the 
 other, cigarette in hand, animated, and 
 enthusiastic. All the scores that had ac- 
 cumulated in his unwholesome mind against 
 the man who had done what he had not 
 even wished to do had summed themselves 
 together as he sat at the other end of the 
 room watchlnof and listening. 
 
 " You believe in the blue ribbon, I take 
 it!" he continued with a sneer, as Norman, 
 apparently occupied with the ashes of his
 
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 cigarette, did not answer for the moment. 
 "Come, now, Strange, you believe in the 
 blue ribbon ?" 
 
 A silence had perforce fallen on the other 
 men in the group on Caton's interruption, a 
 silence tinged with a perceptible chill. But 
 in spite of themselves there was a litde stir 
 of interest among them on his last words. 
 Only one or tw^o, as it happened, knew Caton 
 and not one knew anything of his rela- 
 tions w^ith Norman Strange. Norman had 
 spent the last quarter of an hour arguing 
 brilliandy in a youthful, theoretical way 
 against pledges, written or unwritten, as 
 destructive to a man's strength of will, and 
 the men who had noticed his adherence to 
 lemon and soda were curious as to what he 
 would say. There was a moment's pause 
 and then he looked Caton full in the face and 
 said quietly :
 
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 " No ! I don't believe in the blue ribbon." 
 
 Caton laughed. 
 
 " Don't like the name, eh ? Well, blue 
 ribbon, taking the pledge, total abstinence, 
 call it what you like, you believe in the 
 thing itself ? " 
 
 " No ! " Norman spoke slowly and still 
 more quietly as if with something of an 
 effort. '' 1 don't ! " 
 
 They were looking one another full in 
 the face ; Caton with an evil, insolent, sneer- 
 ing challenge ; Norman with his expression 
 indescribably alert behind his temporary 
 quiet ; and the other men remained instinc- 
 tively silent as if watching a duel. There 
 was another laugh from Caton, a laugh the 
 ring of which seemed to release some of the 
 youthful spirit which Norman was apparently- 
 holding in check, and the former said : 
 
 " You don't believe* in total abstinence I 
 
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 194 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 Why, man, you're a total abstainer yourself! 
 Stand to your colours." 
 
 There was another movement among the 
 men round as Norman made a spirited move- 
 ment, as if to speak. Without in the least 
 understanding what was going on they began 
 to feel the position strained, and one young 
 fellow stretched out his hand for the whisky 
 bottle. 
 
 " What nonsense ! " he said. " Here, Mr. 
 Strange, let me put some whisky into that 
 squash of yours and make him feel small." 
 
 With a quick instinctive movement 
 Norman moved his glass to avoid the 
 proffered whisky, and Caton exclaimed : 
 
 ** Not he! His will's so strong, I tell 
 you, that he's afraid it wouldn't get exercise 
 enough if he once began upon whisky ! " 
 
 His sneering eyes were full upon 
 Norman's as he ^poke, and under the
 
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 intolerable taunt in them a boyish flash of 
 indignation leapt into Norman's face, break- 
 ing down on the instant all his forced reserve, 
 and he stretched out his glass impetuously 
 to the man who held the whisky. 
 
 ''That's a lie!" he cried impetuously, 
 answering the eyes with which the other 
 taunted him with being afraid. " Here, let's 
 have some whisky ! " 
 
 The quick splash of the liquid and ano- 
 ther laugh followed, and simultaneously with 
 these and most incongruously there came a 
 low, hurried woman's voice from the door. 
 
 " I beg your pardon ! " it said ; " I was 
 looking for Mr. Strange.'* 
 
 Mrs. Custance stood in the doorway, her 
 small face white to the very lips, her hands 
 clasping her' sunshade in an intense grip. 
 sShe did not seem to be aware that every 
 man in the room had turned at the sound 
 
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 196 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 of her voice ; she fixed her eyes full upon 
 Norman Strange as he sprang up, setting 
 his tumbler of whisky on the table, and 
 came quickly towards her ; and she went 
 on In the same low, hurried, but quite un- 
 hesitating voice : 
 
 " I came to see If you are ready, Mr. 
 Strange. Mrs. Ward has offered to take 
 back two of our party, and I thought perhaps 
 you would not mind going with me now ! " 
 
 The next moment with a few rapid words 
 of farewell, and without a glance at Caton, 
 he had followed her through the doorway 
 and out of the house with a rather pale face. 
 
 The kindly old lady who had been rather 
 surprised at Mrs. Custances ready accep- 
 tance of her offer of two seats in her carriage, 
 was no less surprised to find both her com- 
 panions equally silent. Mrs. Custance was 
 even more painfully confused and embar-
 
 A MERE CYPHER 197 
 
 rassed than was usual with her, and Norman 
 Strange hardly spoke. Mrs. Custance had 
 by no means recovered herself, eveii when 
 they reached home, and as they walked in 
 silence up the garden, though Norman was 
 too preoccupied to notice it, she was trem- 
 bling from head to foot. 
 
 " Please, ma'am, Mrs. Johnson Is in the 
 kitchen and wants to speak to you very 
 particular," said the servant to her as sh^ 
 opened the door, and Norman passed up- 
 stairs to his room as she went into the 
 dining-room, telling the girl to bring Mrs. 
 Johnson in. 
 
 Half an hour later he came downstairs 
 again, his face grave still, but no longer 
 painfully so. He had forgotten Mrs. Johnson 
 apparently, or had concluded that she was 
 gone, for he opened the dining-room door 
 and then prepared to retreat again hastily as
 
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 he became aware of a homely figure in a 
 shawl standing with Mrs. Custance by the 
 window. But at the sound of his voice 
 as he apologised, Mrs. Custance turned 
 quickly to him, her blue eyes shocked and 
 pitiful, her lips trembling. 
 
 " Oh, Mr. Strange ! '* she exclaimed, 
 " what can I do } What can I do ? 
 Alice is gone ! " 
 
 " Gone ! " he repeated enquiringly, think- 
 ing of the girl's apprenticeship in Newcastle. 
 " You did not expect that she would go so 
 soon, Mrs. Custance ? " 
 
 *' I did not expect her to go at all!" 
 she answered, her voice so shaken as to 
 be hardly audible. " I mean, it's not to 
 Newcastle she's gone ! She's gone away 
 from me — away from all of us, and I don't 
 know where she is ! Oh, Mr. Strange, don't 
 you understand ? Don't you understand } "
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 A SHORT, sharp exclamation broke from 
 Norman Strange as Mrs. Custance's shaken, 
 incoherent words stopped suddenly, and it 
 was followed by a moment's dead silence. 
 The woman from the village had turned 
 quickly towards Norman on his entrance, 
 and was looking at him with a pair of sharp 
 curious eyes. Mrs. Custance had turned 
 away her quivering face, and one hand was 
 working nervously at the window curtain, 
 by which she stood, as though she tried 
 instinctively even then to suppress herself 
 and her own emotion. Norman stood just 
 as her first words — startled from her ap«
 
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 parently by her irrepressible distress — had 
 arrested him, almost in the doorway, 
 then Norman shut the door, and coming 
 further into the room, said in a tone that 
 was very low and grave : 
 
 " Is it not possible that there may be 
 some mistake, Mrs. Custance ? Will you 
 tell me what is known ? " 
 
 Apparently the sympathetic voice let 
 loose the current of her great distress, for 
 the tears fell fast down her cheeks, and she 
 tried in vain to answer him. Mrs. Johnson, 
 who was by no means incapacitated from 
 speech, in whose frame of mind, indeed, 
 excitement and interest seemed to pre- 
 dominate, answered for her. She was the 
 woman who had been with Alice Eade in 
 the cart which Norman had stopped in the 
 lane on the night of his arrival at Thorns- 
 dyke.
 
 A MERE CYPHER 201 
 
 *' It's very little as is known, sir, and 
 that's the fact ! " she began ; " but that 
 iittle's certain, and there's only one way 
 it points. It's something to be thankful 
 for, I'm sure, that it's come to light when 
 it has ! " — the reason for Mrs. Johnson's 
 thankfulness was somewhat obscure — *' and 
 it was all along of my going by accident 
 into Wellborough this morning, by train." 
 Wellborough was the market-town. *" I 
 was going by the ten o'clock train," con- 
 tinued Mrs. Johnson, embarking on her 
 story with a certain epjoyment of it, *' and 
 I got up to the station early, and while I 
 was waiting, Tom-at-the- station, he comes 
 up to me and says, * So Miss Eade's gone to 
 stay for a bit in Wellborough !' Tom, he's 
 had a hankering after Alice this long time, 
 for all she never give him so much as a 
 look, and he's always got something to say
 
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 to me about her, thinking as she and me's 
 been more on terms, in a way of speaking, 
 than her and other Thornsdyke folks. So 
 I says to him, ' Oh, has she ? ' I says. ' It's 
 the first I've heard of it.' I did think 
 then as it was rather strange like, that I 
 should never have heard of her havin' 
 friends in Wellborough, but I didn't give 
 it no more than a passing thought, and 
 I shouldn't have again as likely as not ; but 
 as I was a-going out of the Wellborough 
 station, who should I happen to meet but 
 Mrs. Williams, which is my master's cousin, 
 sir, and just as I was a-givin' her good day, 
 and goin' on, she says to me, * Alice Eade's 
 gone to her place, then, Mrs. Johnson, and 
 a good riddance for Thornsdyke/ Mrs. 
 Williams she never could see anything 
 in Alice. * I see her settin' off for London 
 yesterday mornin', and it would have been
 
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 more becomin' in her, to my way o' thinkln', 
 to been seen off by some friend as wasn't 
 a young gentleman.' ' Setting off for 
 London, Mrs. Williams ! ' I says. * Alice's 
 place ain't in London at all, nor she isn't 
 going to it yet awhile, either. You must 
 b! been mistook.' * Mistook, Mrs. Johnson,' 
 says she. ' Now, I ask you only, is Alice 
 Eade the kind of girl to be mistook in ? ' 
 And the long and short of it is, sir, Mrs. 
 Williams was as positive as she was of 
 her own name that she'd seen Alice Eade 
 see'd off to London yesterday mornin' by a 
 gendeman. She couldn't say that she'd know 
 the gendeman again — for I thought it right, 
 as you'll believe, by that time, sir, to ask 
 her very particular. He had on a kind of 
 flapping coat thing. But she was sure he 
 was a gentleman, and a young gentleman, 
 sir.''
 
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 Mrs. Johnson had spoken the last 
 sentence in a peculiar tone that was at once 
 lofty and confidential, and the eyes which 
 she had fastened more intendy than ever 
 on Norman's face as she spoke were quite 
 preternaturally keen and inquisitive. Neither 
 of her auditors, however, noticed either 
 tone or look, and directly she had taken 
 breath she went on again. 
 
 " The mistakes I made with my shoppin' 
 at Wellborough, sir, is past believin', I was 
 that put about and upset, and the very first 
 thing as I did when I got back home was 
 to go round to Alice's place. My heart, 
 I do assure you, sir, was in my mouth as 
 I knocked at the door. I knocked, and I 
 shook it, and I tapped at the window, and 
 it was as quiet as a graveyard. She was 
 gone, sure enough ! " 
 
 Mrs. Johnson drew a long breath, as
 
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 one who has reached the climax of her 
 story, and paused. There was a moment's 
 silence, and then Norman said gently to 
 Mrs. Custance : 
 
 "When did you see her last?" 
 "I've not seen her for three or four 
 days," she answered brokenly. "Not since 
 that morning when she came unexpectedly — 
 you know ! She sent me a message to say 
 she couldn't come the next day. Oh, poor 
 girl ! What can we do ? " 
 
 There was nothing immediate to be 
 done, as Norman told her gently. He 
 volunteered to go to Wellborough to make 
 further enquiries, an offer which, as throw- 
 ing doubt on her evidence, caused Mrs. 
 Johnson to toss her head ; he even 
 volunteered to go to London and see if any- 
 thing could be discovered at the terminus 
 there, an offer which produced a still more
 
 2o6 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 pronounced toss of the head and a sniff of 
 much emphasis from the same quarter. 
 
 Mrs. Custance's only thought, apparently, 
 was the girl herseh, and it was not until the 
 interview was perforce drawn to a close by 
 her uneasy sense of the approaching advent 
 of supper-time and her husband, that the 
 thought which occupied the minds of the 
 other two of this oddly constituted trio was 
 put into words with a kind of hesitating 
 daring by Mrs. Johnson, as she darted 
 another keen glance at Norman Strange : 
 
 " It's all very well to say where can she 
 be ? " she said. '' But there's a shorter 
 question than that, Mrs. Custance, if I may 
 take the liberty, that would tell us a deal. 
 Who's the gentleman ? '' 
 
 Mrs. Custance's grieving blue eyes were 
 fixed on her for a moment with a startled 
 expression as though the importance of the
 
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 suggested question had only just occurred to 
 her, and as she turned them helplessly on 
 Norman as though appealing to him to 
 answer it, he said to her, speaking gravely, 
 almost sternly : 
 
 " You have no Idea, Mrs. Custance ? " 
 
 " No ! " she answered. *' None at all ! I 
 can't think ! " 
 
 Mrs.- Johnson pursed up her lips Into an 
 expression in which were blended importance, 
 mystery, and a certain unconcealed contempt 
 for Mrs. Custance's want of penetration, and 
 finally, moved by her burning desire to dis- 
 cuss the question in more responsive circles, 
 she took her leave. 
 
 Meals at the White House, with the in- 
 congruous elements they brought together, 
 could never be said to be either genial or 
 sociable occasions. But over the supper 
 which ensued half an hour later there seemed
 
 2o8 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 to hane a straiiQre unusual shadow. The 
 only one of the party whose spirits were un- 
 impaired was Robert Caton, and he was 
 even more than ordinarily boisterous and 
 insolent In manner. Dr. Custance was out 
 of temper ; he had a summons to one of his 
 few patients which obliged him to go out 
 before supper was over ;• and while he was in 
 the room he hardly spoke, except to visit his 
 annoyance on his wife In the cutting sarcasm 
 from which she always shrank. Norman 
 was very silent, very stern, utterly unlike 
 himself; to Caton he spoke not a word. 
 
 That Mrs. Custance's voice should be 
 hardly heard was by no means an unusual 
 circumstance ; but her face, her eyes red- 
 dened with her recent tears, was confused 
 and bewildered with distress. After the 
 departure of Dr. Custance she seemed to 
 notice Norman's tacit refusal to address
 
 A MERE CYPHER 209 
 
 Caton, and that distress deepened. Perhaps 
 the remembrance of what she must have 
 seen and heard as she stood In the doorway 
 of the smoking-room at Sletton Court 
 suggested to her the thought that Norman 
 was resenting Caton's conduct on that 
 occasion, and Inspired her with a vague 
 dread lest that resentment should develope 
 further, for apparently she found It almost 
 Impossible to bring herself to leave the*m 
 alone together. As long as it was possible, 
 much longer than was usual with her, she 
 sat at the table, her pale face growing paler 
 and her hands trembling, and when at last 
 she rose, it was with the sudden, hasty move- 
 ments of desperation. At the very door she 
 turned and looked back again as though 
 hesitating — looked at Caton leaning back in 
 his chair, careless, satisfied, hilarious ; at 
 Norman, standing holding the door for her 
 
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 in Stern silence. The next moment she had 
 moved on mechanically, and the door had 
 closed behind her. 
 
 It was very still and peaceful in the 
 
 drawing-room, and either that or the sudden 
 
 relaxation of the strain with which the mental 
 
 atmosphere of the dining-room had been 
 
 charged had its effect on her. She was 
 
 trembling less, and the colour was returning 
 
 to her lips, when it was suddenly startled 
 
 away again, and she rose abruptly from her 
 
 chair, as the silence was broken by an angry 
 
 voice from the dining-room. The passage 
 
 that separated the rooms was narrow, the 
 
 walls thin, and though she could hear no 
 
 words she could distinctly distinguish that 
 
 the first voice was answered by a second, 
 
 insolent and sneering, and that it replied 
 
 again more hotly than before. White as 
 
 ashes, and trembling from head to foot, she
 
 A MERE CYPHER 211 
 
 Stood as though absolutely unable to move, 
 as the voices rose and fell in quick succession, 
 getting always higher and higher, until at last 
 as a violent retort brought almost the very 
 words to her ears, she suddenly crossed the 
 room and opened the drawing-room door just 
 as the hall door close to her right hand was 
 opened by her husband, who stopped short 
 on seeing her. She did not hear his question 
 to her. She was wholly absorbed in the 
 sudden silence in the dining-room that had 
 succeeded the last passionate words ; a 
 silence which had arrested her in the draw- 
 ing-room doorway, and in which she seemed 
 to hear the quick, hot breath of two angry 
 men standing face to face. It lasted for an 
 instant only, and then she and her husband 
 alike heard Norman Strange's voice ring out, 
 full and passionate : 
 
 " Tell me where she is ? " 
 
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 212 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 There was a reply, an insolent, sneering 
 reply, of which the words were inaudible. 
 Then, before Dr. Custance could take the few 
 steps between the hall door and the dining- 
 room, there was a fierce exclamation : 
 
 *' You scoundrel ! " the sudden sound of 
 a blow, a heavy thud, and the dining- 
 room door was dashed open by Norman 
 Strange, his face white, his eyes flashing, 
 apparently beside himself with passion. 
 
 ''You'd better go to him," he cried to 
 Dr. Custance, apparently not even seeing 
 the shrinking figure in the drawing-room 
 doorway. " I've knocked him down, and'i'll 
 do it again whenever he's r^ady ! " And 
 before Dr. Custance had well taken in his 
 words the front door shut behind him with a 
 violent bang. 
 
 He dashed down the garden and started 
 up the road at a pace of which he was no
 
 A MERE CYPHER 213 
 
 more conscious than he was of any destina- 
 tion for his hasty footsteps. Every pulse 
 was leaping and throbbing, every nerve was 
 strained and tense, he was conscious of no- 
 thing but such passion as perhaps only early 
 manhood knows ; the hot, hardly controllable 
 passion of youth combined with a man's fury 
 of contempt for something unutterably base 
 and degraded. For more than half an hour 
 he walked at the top of his speed with no 
 coherent thought, with no conscious volition, 
 simply because the rapid movement supplied 
 some outlet for the surging force within him ; 
 the surging force which rose and shook 
 him again and again until at last time and 
 the physical exertion began to take effect. 
 Very slowly and gradually the power of 
 thought and consideration came back to him. 
 Out of the red-hot glow of passion facts began 
 to stand forth, he began to recollect and to
 
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 reflect in detail, with a calmness which grew 
 always sterner and sterner as his excitement 
 subsided. 
 
 On the instant, as Mrs. Johnson spoke of 
 a gentleman in connection with Alice Eade's 
 disappearance, the thought of Caton had 
 leapt into his mind, and the conviction that 
 he was indeed the man had grown with every 
 breath he drew. The temporary suspension 
 of his original doubts and fears as to the 
 flirtation carried on by Caton with the girl 
 gave them double distinctness in the retro- 
 spect, and endued his present suspicion with 
 a sense of absolute certainty that seemed to 
 carry it out of the bounds of conjecture and 
 to make it knowledge. And at the same 
 time the thought that his fears should have 
 been so lightly suspended, that he should 
 have been so careless, so easily blinded, 
 complicated the situation by adding to it for
 
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 him the bitterness of self-reproach. It was 
 characteristic of his boyish, impulsive chivalry 
 that he should feel himself thus additionally 
 responsible, additionally called upon to make 
 some stand for womanhood in the person 
 of the missing girl. 
 
 Exactly what his intentions had been 
 when he found himself alone with Caton after 
 supper he tried in vain to recall now as 
 he walked along the country road, with tRe 
 quiet summer darkness all about him and the 
 fierce heat of passion subsiding in his heart. 
 Had he himself begun, or had some covert 
 sneer of Caton's given him an opening, he 
 asked himself? One word had led to another, 
 Caton's answers kindling in him an ever 
 Strengthening fire of indignation until at last, 
 Caton, not perfectly sober, had avowed the 
 truth, and avowed it with a brutal boast and 
 an allusion to the girl which had destroyed
 
 716 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 Norman's last remnant of self-control. His 
 passionate demand as to her present where- 
 abouts had been met by a coarse taunt, and 
 on the instant a sudden, well-directed blow had 
 stretched the other man on the floor at his 
 feet. Much more than this Norman was 
 unable to remember. He was conscious of 
 having rushed out of the room, and he was 
 vaguely aware of having found himself face 
 to face with Dr. Custance in the hall ; but of 
 what he had said or done since then he had 
 very little consciousness, until he found 
 himself about two hours later standing once 
 more outside the White House, having made 
 a round of nearly ten miles. 
 
 He was quite quiet now ; his passion had 
 spent itself, and in its place was a steady, 
 implacable sternness. He had made no plan 
 of future action ; he knew that Caton was a 
 coward, and that there was little chance of
 
 A MERE CYPHER 217 
 
 ?beir meeting again that night, and for the 
 norrow time and circumstances would de- 
 velope his course of action. There was no 
 regret in his mind for what had passed, but 
 for the present he was quiescent. He stood 
 a moment before entering the house, and 
 looked up at the quiet night sky and round 
 at the peaceful darkness of the landscape. 
 The wind was sighing gently in the trees, 
 and coming on the fierce excitement through 
 which he had passed, the stillness and peace 
 of the night seemed to suggest a sleeping 
 earth, on which all the inhabitants slept also. 
 Then he opened the hall door softly, lest 
 Mrs. Custance should have gone to bed, and 
 went in. 
 
 It was very quiet in the house. The 
 stillness outside, with its calm suggestion of 
 sleep, seemed to be intensified until it was 
 almost oppressive. Its suggestiveness seemed
 
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 in some indefinable way to intensify also, and 
 it was no longer of the sleep of a night that 
 it spoke. Norman paused a moment in the 
 hall, vaguely conscious of a change in the 
 atmosphere. All the doors were shut, and 
 he thought that every one must be gone to 
 bed. Then, seeing a light under the dining- 
 room door, he determined to get some water 
 before going upstairs, and crossed the hall 
 with that intent. He opened the dining- 
 room door and stood still suddenly. 
 
 Never while he lived could Norman 
 Strange account for, or even define, the 
 awful sense of chill horror that fell upon him 
 in that moment. The room was perfectly 
 quiet and orderly, perhaps even more 
 orderly than usual, the gas was turned down. 
 There was nothing out of the common to be 
 seen, except that on the table there was 
 something long and narrow, covered with a
 
 A MERE CYPHER 2if 
 
 white sheet. Without knowing why or ho\^ 
 he did it, impelled by the horror that had 
 fallen on him as he opened the door, Norman 
 Strange walked mechanically up to the table 
 and lifted the sheet. Beneath it lay Robert 
 Caton — dead.
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 " But hadn't they used to be pretty good 
 friends, Drew ? " 
 
 The man addressed, a little wiry, sharp- 
 faced man, suspended his proceedings with 
 a plane — proceedings which had been merely 
 nominal In the Interest of the discussion 
 going on around him, and answered confi- 
 dentially : 
 
 "Well, Mr. Snowdon," he said, "that's 
 according as how you take it. There's no 
 one as can say as they ever saw them thick 
 like, and my boy William, he's said times 
 and again to his mother and me as he didn't 
 believe Mr. Strange and Mr. Caton — poor
 
 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 gentleman — could abide one another. An' 
 he says, too," he added parenthetically, " as 
 I've told you, sir, he says as the words 
 between 'em before it came to blows that 
 night was something enough to wake the dead. 
 He heard them, and Mrs. Scott's Emma, as 
 is cook at the White House, she heard 'em 
 too, as they was a-sittin' in the kitchen at 
 supper ! " 
 
 The scene was quaint and picturesque 
 enough. A long, low carpenter's shed, with 
 an odd cross-light from the wide opening 
 into the yard of which its creeper-grown 
 wall formed one side, and a small haphazard 
 pane of glass through which there streamed 
 a ray of light straight from the setting sun. 
 The carpenter himself stood at his bench, 
 and his interlocutor was leaning up against the 
 entrance, a stout, prosperous-looking figure, 
 of the small farmer class, with a stupid, good-
 
 222 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 natured face. Farther into the shed, sitting 
 on a pile of newly-sawn wood which gave 
 its peculiar odour to the ^ir, was a white- 
 bearded old man with a bright scarlet waist- 
 coat, and outside, clustering together round 
 the doorway, were three or four women. 
 
 The workshop of Joshua Drew, the 
 Thornsdyke carpenter, was the head-quarters 
 of the village as far as gossip was concerned ; 
 any one anxious for information as to their 
 neighbours' affairs invariably went to consult 
 its master, and seldom went in vain. On 
 the tragedy which had formed one of the 
 two subjects of excited discussion in Thorns- 
 dyke lor the last three days, the death of 
 Robert Caton, his information was prac- 
 tically inexhaustible, and had all the majesty 
 of derivation from the fountain-head, since 
 his eldest son officiated in Dr. Custance's 
 house as pageboy. And to his own intense
 
 A MERE CYPHER 223 
 
 satisfaction, Joshua Drew had hardly spent 
 a moment alone in his workshop since the 
 news was first known. 
 
 " There's some says one thing and some 
 another," he resumed now with an impartial 
 air. " There's some as 'as seen her with 
 one and some with another. Here's Mr. 
 Rogers, now," turning to the old man 
 behind him ; he was the old man who had 
 come down the lane when Norman had fouitd 
 Alice Eade waiting, as he believed, for 
 Robert Caton ; " here's Mr. Rogers says 
 he's seen her and Mr. Strange as thick as 
 you please in Five-acre Lane." 
 
 " Ah 1 " interrupted a woman by the door, 
 as Mr. Rogers prepared to endorse the 
 carpenter's statement in a quavery treble, 
 *'an' I've seen her times out o' mind with 
 Mr. Caton ! A shameless hussy ! " 
 
 **An' that's how it stands, Mr. Snowdon,"
 
 224 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 continued Joshua Drew, presenting the 
 woman's words to the farmer with confi- 
 dential politeness ; *' some says one thing 
 and some another ; but one thing as there 
 ain't no doubt on is as Mr. Strange knocked 
 Mr. Caton down and killed him on the 
 nail." 
 
 ** I'm sorry to disturb that comfortable 
 conviction, Drew, but such is not the 
 fact ! " 
 
 There was a sudden start and simul- 
 taneous turn of every member of the group 
 in the direction of the indolent, sarcastic 
 voice they all knew well. Unnoticed by 
 any one, Dr. Custance had come down the 
 yard in time to hear the last words, and 
 he stood now confronting the talkers, as 
 they acknowledged his presence in theii 
 various ways, with an expression which was 
 by no means pleasant to them.
 
 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 225 
 
 " I am very glad to have this opportunity 
 of telling you, and I hope — I have no 
 doubt, indeed— that you will each of you 
 go and tell it to somebody else : that Dr. 
 Harding finds that Mr. Caton's death was 
 caused by heart disease. The interesting 
 episode, of which you all seem to know a 
 great deal more than I do, had, he says, 
 nothing in the world to do with it." 
 
 There was a moment's dead silence, and 
 then Joshua Drew made a valiant effort to 
 retrieve his position in the eyes of the 
 believers who had witnessed his fall by ac- 
 cepting Dr. Custance's words as a private 
 and confidential communication addressed to 
 himself. 
 
 "I'm very glad, indeed, to hear you say 
 so, sir, I'm sure," he said. " Disease of the 
 heart ! Well, now, and to think that one 
 never would have thought it ! And the 
 
 VOL. I. Q
 
 226 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 blow had nothing to do with it — it all 
 happened simultaneous like ? Well, now ! " 
 
 " The blow, if there was a blow, had 
 nothing to do with it," returned Dr. 
 Custance, with a look under which a 
 woman on the outskirts of the group hastily 
 and unobtrusively departed. 
 
 " Nothing to do with it ! To be sure ! " 
 , responded Joshua Drew. "Well, that 
 makes a wonderful deal o' difference, don't 
 it, now ? " 
 
 ** I don't know so much about that I " 
 The words came in a slow and ruminating 
 voice from the farmer at the door, who was 
 collecting information for the edification of 
 his wife; and his social status bringing him a 
 degree nearer to Dr. Custance than were the 
 other members of the party, made it possible 
 to him to say what they ventured only to 
 think. *' It makes a difference in a way,
 
 A MERE CYPHER 227 
 
 certainly ; but I don't see that it throws 
 much light on which of 'em has done for the 
 girl." 
 
 Dr. Custance turned on him quickly, a 
 look of surprise on his face. He knew, of 
 course, of the disappearance of Alice Eade, 
 and he had arrived at a pretty clear estimate 
 of the truth ; but he was ignorant of the con- 
 fusion of mind existing in the village on the 
 subject. 
 
 *' What do you mean?" he said. 
 
 *' Well, which of 'em was it, doctor, you 
 see ? No offence, I'm sure!" added the man 
 awkwardly. 
 
 There was a moment's pause, and then 
 Dr. Custance said callously : 
 
 ** There is no particular reason, as far as 
 I can see, to suppose that either of my 
 patients had a hand in the affair. The girl, 
 as you all know, was as likely as not to have 
 
 Q 2
 
 228 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 plenty of strings to her bow. Anyway, 
 Mr. Caton, poor fellow, is dead, and Mr. 
 Strange leaves Thornsdyke in two days' 
 time ; and least said soonest mended." 
 
 He turned on his heel as he spoke and 
 left the yard. In Dr. Custance's opinion 
 the non-committal was the only policy that 
 could be relied upon for keeping a man out 
 of situations demanding exertion. 
 
 Robert Caton had died of aneurism 
 of the heart. Dr. Custance, going, on 
 Norman's hasty exit, to the prostrate figure 
 visible within the dining-room had found 
 him dead, had guessed the truth, though he 
 had never troubled to acquaint himself ac- 
 curately with the organic condition of his 
 '' patient," and had himself summoned a 
 brother practitioner with an energy and 
 promptitude which only his desire to 
 minimise his own trouble and responsi-
 
 A MERE CYPHER 229 
 
 bllity could have induced in him. The 
 colleague thus summoned was naturally the 
 one nearest at hand ; a very old gentleman 
 whose services were somewhat at a discount 
 in the neighbourhood, and whose easy-going 
 amiability would have rendered him in any 
 case ready to cover a scandal in the house 
 of a brother doctor. But in this case his 
 amiability was in no way taxed. Less 
 medical skill than he possessed would have 
 found no difficulty in ascribing, on examina- 
 tion, a perfectly natural cause for Robert 
 Caton's death ; and he announced it as an 
 undoubted fact that the blow and the sub- 
 sequent fall had been practically without 
 results, since the action of the heart had in 
 all probability failed in the very instant in 
 which the blow fell. The certificate signed 
 by him had assigned as the cause of death 
 a more technical version of the simple state-
 
 230 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 ment made by Dr. Custance in Joshua 
 Drew's workshop. 
 
 And as Dr. Custance had said, Norman 
 Strange was leaving Thornsdyke imme- 
 diately. Free as he was from any shadow 
 of blame, the painful interest which must 
 have attached itself to him in the neiofh- 
 bourhood, the painful associations which his 
 present surroundings must hold for him for 
 the future, made it impossible that he should 
 remain. Circumstances made it necessary 
 that he should go, the bare outline of his 
 conduct was determined for him ; but behind 
 them, filling them in with life and glow, 
 underlying all the painful solemnity of the 
 original cause, all the self-reproach of which 
 he could not quite -divest himself, was an 
 impulse which grew hourly more potent and 
 all-dominating. In the agony of the hour 
 when he believed that he had killed the
 
 A MERE CYPHER 231 
 
 man he hated, and in the reaction of 
 relief when he found himself completely 
 exonerated, the last traces of those remains 
 of physical and mental weakness which had 
 made it natural and advantageous to him to 
 stay on at the White House had been 
 finally scorched away. He found himself 
 suddenly ready to face the world again, 
 eager to be at work. 
 
 He seemed to himself to be living a 
 strange mental life during the week that 
 elapsed between his consciousness of the 
 necessity for his departure, and that de- 
 parture as an accomplished fact ; a life in 
 which the present was nothing but the 
 meeting- ground of the past and future. The 
 past was past for him now, indeed, as it 
 had never been before. He seemed to 
 stand aloof from it and look at it-; he went 
 through all its phases over and over again
 
 232 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 with unshrinking steadiness and courage, 
 with a sense of its blackness, which time 
 would only deepen in him. But it was to 
 him as something done and over, of which 
 only the painful memory remained ; while 
 before him, glowing and beating with 
 vigorous life, his own to use and work in, 
 lay the future. With every day, almost 
 with every hour, that future became to him 
 more real, more tangible ; his plans became 
 more definite, his zest in them grew keener. 
 All his thoughts, like all his hopes, were 
 centred in it, he was already living in it in 
 anticipation. The course of life at the 
 White House in which he had lived for the 
 last three months, during which so much had 
 gradually changed for him, and which he 
 was so soon to leave behind, had no more 
 substance, no more reality for him, now, 
 than the merest shadow of a dream.
 
 A MERE CYPHER 233 
 
 One present interest connected solely 
 with the past, and one only, still had 
 vigorous life for him. Of Alice Eade 
 nothing had been heard in Thornsdyke 
 since she left it. Norman knew from the 
 dead man's own lips — and Norman only — 
 why she had left Thornsdyke, and that 
 she was waiting now for Caton somewhere. 
 Where she was he did not know ; and the 
 thought of that terrible waiting, of the sick 
 suspense that could only end in despair, 
 of the girl's probable future if she should 
 not be found, haunted him. It was on 
 his own impulse quite as much as in his 
 pity for Mrs. Custance's distress that he 
 left no stone unturned to trace her. 
 
 Norman believed that Mrs. Custance 
 knew the . whole truth. No words had 
 passed between them on the subject except 
 as to the means employed in vain to find
 
 234 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 the missing girl, but as each day that brought 
 his going nearer and found him more confi- 
 dent, hopeful, and courageous, found her 
 quieter, paler, and more nervous, he 
 ascribed such change in her as he was 
 carelessly conscious of to that mental picture 
 of Alice Eade by which he himself was 
 haunted. He did not know that in the 
 fearful shock of finding Caton dead all sense 
 of the words she had heard in that listening 
 moment at the drawing-room door had been 
 confused for her beyond the possibility of 
 application ; he did not know that she never 
 once connected the dead man and the 
 missing girl ; that Alice's disappearance was, 
 in fact, only a background of dull pain to 
 her in the days on which, for him, it formed 
 the only shadow. 
 
 One by one those days went by until 
 that morning came which was to be
 
 A MERE CYPHER 235 
 
 Norman's last at the White House. It 
 was a wet morning, and as he stood alone 
 at the dining-room window waiting for 
 breakfast, he looked out over the dreary- 
 garden and recalled the night of his arrival ; 
 recalled it with a bright, confident flash 
 in his eyes, as the thought seemed to lead 
 whither all his thoughts now led — to the 
 future. How little chance there had been 
 then of any future but one for him ! 
 
 The light was still in his face, his whole 
 personality was instinct with hope and con- 
 fidence as he turned quickly from the 
 window. Mrs. Custance had come into the 
 room, and was wishing him a scarcely audible 
 good morning. He did not notice that her 
 voice was very low, nor did he notice that 
 the hand he touched was as cold as ice. 
 Her face, to his eyes, showed little change 
 at any time. If, this morning, it was more
 
 236 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 wan than usual ; if the blue eyes were duller, 
 the manner more uncertain, he did not see 
 the difference. A certain blunted, dull 
 expression which gave her face a look that 
 was almost apathetic, would have been 
 detected only by a very keen observer. 
 
 It was so usual with her to say very 
 little that it escaped notice that during break- 
 fast she said absolutely nothing. Norman 
 was to leave almost immediately after ; he 
 had made all his arrangements before 
 coming down, and as Dr. Custance left 
 the room to give some orders, he rose 
 cheerily and turned to Mrs. Custance. 
 
 " I shall always think kindly of this room, 
 Mrs. Custance," he said. *' We have had 
 some pleasant mornings here, haven't we ? 
 I hope you'll miss our readings a little bit." 
 He spoke with a good-natured sense of her 
 very slight intellectual appreciation of the
 
 A MERE CYPHER 237 
 
 readings, and he strolled to the window as 
 he spoke. He did not see the blue eyes 
 change for one instant with a flash of 
 absolute terror, which left them, as it 
 instantly subsided, duller than before. She 
 was standing awkwardly by her chair facing 
 him as he glanced round for her answer, 
 and her appearance was as far removed 
 from any touch of emotion as were her 
 hesitating words. • 
 
 ** It has been very nice." 
 
 There was a moment's pause. Norman 
 Strange's boot was apparently engaging 
 his attention, and she stood still facing him, 
 with the same apathetic face and fingers 
 closely pressed together. The silence was 
 suddenly broken, as he said abruptly, 
 drawing nearer to her, and speaking rather 
 low and quickly : 
 
 " Mrs. Custance, I want to speak to
 
 238 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 you about that day at Sletton. I don't 
 know, of course, what you heard when you 
 came to the smoking-room, but 1 think 
 you may have heard me take that whisky, 
 and I should just Hke to put myself right 
 with you as to the future. It's just as well, 
 I believe, that I did not drink it, but as 
 things turned out as they did I am very 
 glad to have made the mistake then. It 
 has shown me where to distrust myself, 
 and forewarned is iorearmed, you know. 
 It won't occur again." 
 
 " You will — you will ! ' The words 
 •seemed to come from her under a resistless 
 pressure of inward necessity, but she did 
 not finish her sentence. Only the sudden 
 intensity of appeal with which her face — from 
 which all the dulness had passed as he 
 spoke — was quivering as she raised it to 
 his, spoke for her. As it had always done,
 
 A MERE CYPHER 239 
 
 her wistful incoherence revived in him a 
 sense of superiority and protection, and his 
 tone changed from its gravity of explanation. 
 
 " Indeed I will ! " he said reassuringly, 
 almost lightly. There was another moment's 
 pause, and then he changed the subject. 
 " Mrs. Custance," he said gently, *' I heard 
 this morning from Scotland Yard. They 
 have no news for us ! " 
 
 The life died out of her face, and she 
 paused a moment, as though she followed 
 him with some difficulty, groping her way 
 for the definite subject presented to her 
 where all was vague distress. 
 
 " No news ! " she said, '* no news ! Oh, 
 poor Alice ! " 
 
 " I will do all that can be done, Mrs. 
 Custance," he said quickly, *' and I will write 
 to you. I shall go to Scotland Yard this 
 afternoon. I " He was interrupted.
 
 240 A MERE CYPHER 
 
 " Strange ! " called Dr. Custance from 
 the hall. " We must be off at once ! " 
 
 Norman turned to Mrs. Custance and 
 held out his hand. 
 
 " Good-bye ! " he said, the future even 
 then holding all his thoughts. " Good-bye ! 
 I will find her if it is to be done. Don't be 
 distressed ! " 
 
 " Good-bye ! " she answered him, in a 
 strange, mechanical, far-away voice. " Good- 
 bye, Mr. Strange." 
 
 The next moment he was gone, taking 
 with him nothing from the old life to the 
 new but the thought of Alice Eade. 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 page 
 13. 40 
 
 • 35 
 32.33.35 
 
 • 24 
 
 • 30 
 
 AbBEY(E. A.) . 
 
 Abbot (F.E.) . 
 ABBOTT(Rev. E.) 3,1 
 AcLAND(Sir H.W.) 
 Adams (Sir F. O.) . 
 Aodison . . .4, 
 
 Agassiz (L.) . 
 AiNGER(Rev. A.) 5, 17, 
 Ainslie(A. D.). 
 Airy (Sir G.B.) 
 Aitken (Mary C.) . 
 AiTKEN (Sir W.) 
 Albemarle (Earl of) 
 Aldrich (T. B.) 
 Alexander (C. F.) . 
 Alexander (T.) 
 Alexander (Bishop) 
 Allbutt(T.C.) 
 \llen(G.) 
 Allingham (W.) 
 Amiel(H. F.) . 
 Anderson (A.). 
 \nderson (Dr. McCall) 
 Andrews (Dr. Thomas) 
 \rPLETON (T. G.) . 
 \rcher-Hind(R. D.) 
 Arnold, M. 8,17, 2c,2i 31 
 Arnold (Dr. T.J 
 Arnold (W.T.) 
 \shley(W.J.). 
 Atkinson (J. B.) 
 Atkinson (Rev. J. C.) 
 Attwell(H.). 
 Austin (Alfred) 
 
 AUTENRIETH (GcOrg) . 8 
 
 AWDRY (F.) . . -41 
 
 n AGON (Francis) . 20, 2 r 
 Raines (Rev. E.) . . 35 
 Baker (Sir S. W.) 30, 32.40, 41 
 Baich (Elizabeth) . . 1? 
 
 Baldwin (Prof. J. M ) .28 
 Balfour (F. M.) . . 6 
 Balfour (J. B.) . . 6 
 Ball(V.). ... 41 
 Ball (W. Piatt) . 6 
 
 . 3 
 !i, 35 
 
 • 14 
 2, 29 
 . 21 
 
 • 25 
 
 3 
 
 14 
 
 . 21 
 
 • 9 
 
 • 35 
 . 24 
 . 6 
 . 2r 
 
 3 
 
 • 14 
 24 
 
 . 28 
 . 40 
 
 • 3'/ 
 32.3? 
 
 15 
 
 Ball (W. W. R.) 
 Hallance (C. A.) 
 Barker (Lady) 
 Barnard (C.) . 
 Barnes (W.) . 
 Barnett (E. a ) 
 Bartholomew (J. 
 Bartlett (J.) . 
 Barwell (R.) . 
 Bastable (Prof. C 
 Bastian (H. C.) 
 Bateson (W.) , 
 Bath (Marquis of) 
 Bather (Archdeacon) 
 Baxter (L.) 
 Beesly (Mrs.) 
 Benham (Rev. W.)5 
 Benson (Archbishop) 
 Hrrltoz (H. 
 Bernard (J. H.) 
 i'.ernard (h. m.) 
 Bernard (M.) . 
 BERNAhD (T. D ) 
 Berners(J.) . 
 Rksant (W.) . 
 Bethune-Bakhr (J 
 Bettany (G. T.) 
 
 BlCKERTON (T. H.) 
 BlGELOW(M. M.) 
 HiKlil.AS D.) . 
 
 Binnie (Rev. W.) 
 BiRKS (T. R.) . 6, 
 
 BjORNSON (B.) . 
 
 Black (W.) . 
 Blackburne (E.) 
 Blackih (J. S.) 
 Blake (J. F.) . 
 Blake (W.) . 
 Blakiston (J. R.) 
 Blanford(H. F.) 
 Blanford(W. T.) 
 Blomfield (R.) 
 Blyth(A.W.). 
 Bohm-Bawerk (Prof.) 
 Boissevain (G. M.) . 
 
 F.) 
 
 lAGE 
 24 
 24 
 40 
 29 
 
 3 
 
 24 
 
 30 
 6, 24 
 6 
 3' 
 
 35 
 3 
 
 ID 
 2^,35 
 
 35, 36 
 
 3 
 27 
 
 6 
 13 
 35 
 I? 
 
 4 
 35 
 
 6 
 
 24 
 
 13 
 
 3 
 5, 20 
 
 3 
 3 
 
 9. >9 
 
 9, 26 
 
 • 9 
 
 12 
 
 Boldrewood (Rolf). 
 Bonar U-) 
 Bond (Rev. J.). 
 Boole (G.) », 
 Booth (C.) 
 BosE (W. P. du) . 
 
 BOUGHTON (G. H.) . 
 BOUTMY (E.) . 
 B0WHN(H.C.). 
 
 Bower (F. O.) . 
 Bri-tt(R. B). 
 Bridges (J. A.). 
 Bright (H. A.). 
 Bright (John) . 
 Erimley(G.) . 
 BRODiE(Sir B.C.) . 
 Brodribb (W. J.) 
 Brooke (Sir J.) 
 Brooke (S. A.) 13,14 
 Brooks (Bishop) 
 Brown (A. C.) . 
 
 7 
 
 14, 40 
 
 1 
 
 21.35.36 
 
 36 
 
 38 
 
 5ROWN (J. A.) . 
 
 '■N (Dr. Jai! 
 
 Brown (Dr. James) . . 4 
 Brown (T. E. ) . . .15 
 Browne (J. H. B.) . 
 Browne (Sir T.) 
 BRUNTON(Dr.T. Lauder) 24, 36 
 Bryce (James) . .10,31,40 
 Buchheim (C. A.^ . . 21 
 Buckland (A.). 5, 31 
 
 Buckley (A. B.) . 10,11 
 Bucknill (Dr. J.C.) . 24 
 buckton (g. b.) . . 43 
 Bunyan . . .4, 20, 21 
 BurgonH.W.) . . 15 
 Burke (E.) . . . 31 
 Burn (R.). . . . i 
 Burnett (F. Hodgson) . 18 
 Burns . . . 15, 21 
 Bury (J. B) ... 10 
 Butcher (Prof. S. H.) 14,20,39 
 Butler (A. J.). . . 39 
 Butler (Rev. G.) . . 36 
 Butler (Samuel) . . 15 
 Butler (W.Archer) . 36
 
 44 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 BuTLEK(SirW. F.) . 4 
 
 HuXTON (Mrs. S.) . 32 
 
 Bykon . . . .21 
 Caiknks (J. E.) . 30, 31 
 Caluecott (R.) .12,41,42 
 Cai.dekon . . . '5 
 Calderwood (Prof. H.) 
 
 8, 27, 28 
 Calvert (Rev. A.) . . 33 
 Cameron (V. L.) . . 40 
 Campbell (J. F.) . . 40 
 Campbell (Dr. J. M.) . 36 
 Campbell (Prof. Lewis) 5, 14 
 Cantillon . . .30 
 Capes (W.W.). . . 14 
 Carles (VV. R.) . . 40 
 Carlvlk (T.) ... 3 
 Carmarthen (Lady) . 18 
 Carnarvon (Karl of) . 39 
 Carnot (N. L. G.) . . 29 
 Carpenter (Bishop) . 36 
 Carr(J.C.) ... 2 
 Carroll (Lewis) . 28, 41 
 Carter (R. Brudenell) . 24 
 Cassel (Dr. D.) . . 10 
 Cautlev(G. S.) . 15 
 
 Cazenove (J. G.) . . 36 
 Chalmers (J. B.) . . 9 
 Chalmers (^L D.) . . 31 
 Chapman (Elizabeth R.) . 14 
 Chasseresse (Diana) . 32 
 Cherry (R.R.) . . m 
 Cheyne (C. H. H.) . 
 Cheyne(T. K.) 
 Christie (J.) . 
 Christie (W.D.) . 
 Church (Prof. A. H.) 
 CHURCH(Rev. A. J.) 
 Church (F.J. ). 
 Church (Dean) 
 Clark (J. W.) , 
 Clark (L.) 
 Clark (S.V 
 Clarke (C.B.). 
 Clifford (Ed.) 
 Clifford (W. K.) . 
 Clifford (Mrs. W.K.) 
 Clough (A. H.) 
 Cobden (R.) 
 Cohen (J. B.) . 
 Colenso (J. W.) 
 Coleridge (S. T.) . 
 Collier (Hon. John) 
 Collins (f. Churton) 
 COLQUHOUN (F. S.) . 
 Colvin (Sidney) 
 Combe (G.) 
 
 CONGREVE (Rev. J.) . 
 Conway (Hugh) 
 Cook(E. T.) . 
 Cooke (C. Kinloch) . 
 Cooke (J. P.) . 
 Corbett (J.) . . 4, 
 Corfield(W.H.) . 
 
 CORRY (T. H.) . 
 
 Cotterill(J.H.) . 
 Cotton (Bishop) 
 Cotton (C.) . 
 Cotton (J. S.) . 
 COUES (E.) 
 COURI .lOPE (W.J.) , 
 Cowell (G.) 
 
 COWPER . 
 
 Cox (G. V.) . 
 
 3 
 
 • 33 
 . 24 
 . 21 
 . 6 
 
 4i 32, 40 
 
 21, 39 
 
 5,20,34,36 
 
 . 22 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 9. 30 
 
 • 4 
 20, 28 
 
 • 41 
 15, 20 
 
 • 31 
 
 • 7 
 
 • 34 
 
 • 15 
 
 PAGE 
 
 CRAiK(Mrs.)i5, 18,20,21,40,41 
 Craik(H.) . . 8,31 
 Crane (Lucy) . . 2, 41 
 
 Crane (Walter) 
 Craven (Mrs. D.) . 
 Crawford (F. M.) . 
 Creigh TON (Bishop M.) 4, 
 
 CKICIlTON-BROVVNE(SirJ.) 
 
 Cross (J. A.) . 
 Crossley (E.) . 
 Crossi.ey(H.) . 
 Gumming (L.) . 
 Cunningham (C.) • 
 Cunningham (Sir H.S.). 
 
 41 
 
 30 
 
 Cunningham (Rev. J.) 
 
 CUNN INGHAM (Rev. W 
 
 34 
 )34,35.36 
 
 CUNYNGHAME (Sir A. T.) . 25 
 
 CuRTEis (Rev. G. H.) 34, 36 
 Dahn(F.) ... 18 
 
 Dakyns (H. G.) . . 39 
 Dale (A. W.W.) . . 31 
 
 DALTON(ReV.J. N.) . 40 
 
 Dan lELL (Alfred). . . 28 
 Dante . . .4, 14, 39 
 Davies (Rev. J. Ll.\ 33, 35, 36 
 Davies(W.) ... 5 
 Dawkins(W. B.) . . I 
 Dawson (G. M.) . . 9 
 Dawson (Sir J. W.) . . 9 
 Dawson (J.) . . . i 
 Day(L. B.) ... 18 
 Day(R. E.) ... 28 
 Defoe (D.) . . 4, 21, 22 
 Deighton (K.). 5, 16 
 
 Delamotte (P. H.) 
 Dell (E.G.) . 
 De Morgan (M.) 
 Dk Vakignv(H.) 
 De Vere (A.) . 
 Dicey (A. V.) . . 13, 31 
 Dickens (C.) . . 5, 18, 21 
 DiGGLE(Rev.J. W.). . 36 
 Dn.KE(Ashton W.) . . 19 
 Dii.KE (Sir Charles W.) 25, 31 
 
 DiLLWYN (E. A.) . . 18 
 
 DouBiN (L.) ... 7 
 Dobson (A.) ... 4 
 Donaldson (J.) . . 35 
 
 DONISTHORPE (W.) . . 31 
 
 DOWDEN (E.) . . 4, 14, 16 
 
 Doyle (Sir F.H.) . . 15 
 Doyle(J.A.) . . .11 
 Drake (B.) . . .39 
 
 DRUMMOND(Prof. J.) 36 
 
 Dryden . . . .21 
 DuCane(E. F.) . . 31 
 DuFF(Sir M.E.Grant) 21,31,40 
 DUNSMUIR (A.). . 18 
 
 DOntzer (H.) . . . 4. 5 
 Dupr6(A.) ... 7 
 Dver(L.). ... I 
 Eadie (J.). . . 4, 32, 33 
 Eastlake (Lady) . . -^s 
 Ebers(G.) ... 18 
 Edgevvorth (Prof. F. Y.). 30 
 Edmunds (Dr. W.) . . 22 
 EDWARDS-Moss(Sir J. E.) 3a 
 Eimer(G. H.T.) . . 6 
 Elderton (W. A.) . . q 
 Ellerton (Rev. J.) . . 36 
 Elliot (Hon. A.) . . 31 
 Ellis (T.). ... 3 
 Emerson (R. W.) . 4, 21 
 Evans (S.) ... 15 
 
 Everett (J. D.) 
 Falconer (Lanoe) . 
 Farrar (Archdeacon) 6, 
 Farrer (SirT. H.) . 
 Faulkner (F.). 
 Fawcett (Prof. H.) . 
 Fawcett (M. G.) . 6, 
 Fay (Amy) 
 Fearnley(W.) 
 Fearon (D. R.) 
 Ferrel(W.) . 
 Fessenden (C.) 
 Finck(H.T.) . 
 Fisher (Rev. O.) . 
 Fiske (J.). 6, 10, 27, 
 Fison(L.). 
 Fitch (J. G.) . 
 FiTZ Gerald (Caroline) 
 Fitzgerald (Edward) 
 Fitzmaurice (Lord E.) 
 Fleischer (E.). 
 Fleming (G.) . 
 Flower (Prof. W. H.) 
 Fluckiger (F. A.) . 
 Forbes (A.) 
 Forbes (Prof. G.) . 
 Forbes (Rev. G. H.) 
 Foster (Prof. M.) . 
 
 FOTHERGILL (Dr. J. M.) 
 
 FowLE(Rev. T. W.). 
 Fowler (Rev. T.) . 
 Fowler (W. W.) . 
 Fox (Dr. Wilson) 
 Foxwell (Prof. H. S) 
 Framji (D.) 
 Frankland (P. F.) . 
 Eraser (Bishop) 
 Fraser-Tytler (C. C.) 
 Frazer (J. G.) . 
 Frederick (Mrs.) . 
 Freeman (Prof. E. A.) 
 
 2, 4, 10, 
 French (G. R.) 
 Friedmann (P.) 
 Frost (A. B.) . 
 Froude (J. A.). 
 
 FULLERTON (W. M.] 
 
 Furniss (Harry) 
 Furnivai.l (F.J.) 
 Fyffe (C. a.) . 
 Fyfe(H. H.) . 
 Gairdner (J.) . 
 Galton (F.) . 
 Gamgee (Arthur) 
 Gardner (Percy) 
 Garnett (R.) . 
 Garnett(W.). 
 
 G ASK ELL (Mrs.) 
 Gaskoin (Mrs. H.) 
 Geddes (W. D.) 
 Gee (W. H.) . 
 Geikie (Sir A.). . 9, 
 Gennadius (J.) 
 GiBBiNs(H.de B.) . 
 Gibbon (Charles) 
 Gilchrist (A.). 
 Giles (P.). 
 Gilman (N. P.) 
 Gilmore (Rev. J.) . 
 Gladstone (Dr. J. H.) 
 Gladstone (W.E.). 
 Glaister (E.) . 
 Godfray (H.) , 
 Godkin(G. S.). 
 
 PAGE 
 . 28 
 . 18. 
 33.36 
 
 • 31 
 
 • 7 
 
 30. 3' 
 
 30. 1* 
 
 • 25 
 
 • 29 
 
 . 8 
 . 29- 
 . 28 
 
 28, 29 
 
 31. 36 
 
 15 
 
 21 
 
 5 
 
 7 
 
 18 
 
 42 
 
 24 
 
 40 
 
 3 
 
 36 
 
 6, 29 
 
 8,24 
 
 31, 36 
 
 4. 27 
 
 26 
 
 24 
 
 30 
 
 31. 34 
 14 
 
 3 
 41 
 
 4 
 40 
 41 
 IS 
 II 
 
 lO 
 
 4 
 .29 
 29 
 
 2- 
 15 
 
 5 
 12 
 32 
 14. 40 
 28, 29 
 
 10, 2Q 
 
 3 
 27 
 
 30 
 13 
 7.8 
 14 
 2,8- 
 3 
 5-
 
 INDEX. 
 
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 PAGE 
 
 ooethe . . . 4, is 
 Goldsmith 4, 12, 15, 21, 22 
 GOODALE (Prof. G. L.) . 6 
 
 GOODFELLOW (J.) . , 12 
 
 Gordon (General C. G.) . 5 
 Gordon (Lady Duff) . 40 
 GosCHEN (Rt. Hon. G. J.)- 30 
 GossE (Edmund) . 4, 14 
 Gow(J.) .... 2 
 Graham (D.) . . .15 
 Graham (J. W.) . . 18 
 Grand'homme (E.) . . 8 
 Gray (Prof. Andrew) - . 28 
 Gray (Asa) ... 6 
 Gray ... 4, 15, 22 
 Green (J. R.) 9, 11, 12, 21,22 
 Green (Mrs. J. R.) . 4, 9, 11 
 Green (W. S.) . . . 40 
 Greenhill (W. A.) . . 21 
 Greenwood (J. E.) . . 41 
 Grknfell (Mrs.) . . 8 
 Griffiths (W. H.) . . 24 
 Grimm . . . .41 
 Grove (Sir G.). . 9,26 
 Guest (E.) . . .11 
 Guest (M.J.) . . . n 
 
 GUILLEMIN (A.) . 26, 28 
 
 GuizoT(F. P.G.) . . 6 
 
 GUNTON (G.) . . .30 
 
 Hales (J. W.) . .15,17,20 
 Hallward (R. F.) . . 12 
 Hamerton (P. G.) . 2, 12, 22 
 Hamilton (Prof. D. J.) . 24 
 Hamilton (J.). . . 37 
 Hanbury (D.) . . 6, 24 
 Hannay (David) . . 4 
 Hardwick (Archd. C.) 34, 37 
 Hardy (A. S.). . . 18 
 Hardy (T.) ... 18 
 Hare (A. W.) ... 22 
 Hare (J. C.) ... 37 
 Harper (Father Thos.) . 37 
 Harris (Rev. G.C.). . 37 
 Harrison (F.). . 4,6,22 
 Harrison (Miss J.) . .2 
 Harte (Bret) ... 18 
 Hartig (Dr. R.) . . 6 
 Hartley (Prof. W.N.) . 7 
 Harwood (G.) . .22, 31, 34 
 Hayes (A.) . . .15 
 Headlam (W.). . . 3g 
 Heaviside(0.) . . 29 
 Helps (Sir A.) . . .22 
 Hempel (Dr. W.) . . 7 
 Herkomer(H.) . . 2 
 Herodotus . . .39 
 Herrick . . . .21 
 Hertel (Dr.) ... 9 
 Hill (F. Davenport). . 31 
 Hill(0.). . . 31,32 
 HioRNs (A. H.) . . 25 
 Hobart (Lord) . . 22 
 Hobday (E.) ... 9 
 Hodgson (Rev. J. T.) . 5 
 HOFFDING (Prof. H.) . s8 
 Hofmann (A. W.) . . 7 
 Hole (Rev. C). . 8, 11 
 Holiday (Henxy) . . 41 
 Holland (T. E.) . 13,31 
 Hollway-Calthrop(H.) 41 
 Holmes (O.W.,junr.) . 13 
 Homer ... 14, 39 
 Hooker (Sir J. D.) . 7, 40 
 Hoole (C. H.) . . . 33 
 
 19 
 21, 39 
 33, 34 
 30 
 15 
 40 
 30 
 
 43 
 
 I 
 34 
 
 40 
 
 ig, 22, 40 
 
 2, 10 
 
 2, 21, 26 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Hooper (G.) ... 4 
 Hooper (W. H.) 
 Hope (F.J.) . 
 Hopkins (E.) . 
 Hoppus (M. A. M.) . 
 Horace . . 14 
 HoRT(Prof.F.J.A.). 
 Horton (Hon. S. D.) 
 Hosken(J.D.) 
 Hovenden (R. M.) . 
 Howell (George) . 
 Howes (G. B.) . 
 ROWITT (A. W.) 
 Howson (Very Rev. J. S.) 
 Hozier (Col. H. M.). 
 HObner (Baron) 
 Hughes (T.) 5, 15, 
 Hull(E.). 
 Hullah (J.) 
 
 Hume(D.) ... 4 
 HuMPHRY(Prof.SirG.M.) 30,42 
 Hunt(W.) . . .It 
 Hunt(W. M.). . . 2 
 Hutton (R. H.) . 4, 22 
 Huxley (T.) 4, 22, 29, 30, 32, 43 
 Iddings (J. P.). . 10 
 
 Illingworth (Rev. J. R.) 
 Ingram (T.D.) 
 Irving (J.) _ . 
 Irving (Washington) 
 Jackson (Helen) 
 Jacob (Rev. J. A.) . 
 James (Henry). . 4, ic 
 James (Rev. H.) 
 James (Prof. W.) . 
 Jardine (Rev. R.) . 
 Jeans (Rev. G. E.) . 
 jEBB(Prof. R.C.) . 
 jELLETT(ReV. J. H.) 
 Jenks (Prof. Ed.) . 
 Jennings (A. C.) 
 Jephson(H.) . 
 Jevons (W.S.)5, 28, 30, 3 
 Jex-Blake (Sophia). 
 Johnson (Amy) 
 Johnson (Samuel) . 
 Jones (H.Arthur) . 
 Jones (Prof. D. E.) . 
 Jones (F.). 
 Kalm 
 Kant 
 Kari 
 
 Kavanagh (Rt. Hn. A. M 
 Kay (Rsv. W.) . 
 Keary (Annie). 11, 
 
 Keary (Eliza) . 
 Keats . 4, 
 
 Kellner (Dr. L.) . 
 Kellogg (Rev. S. H.) 
 Kelvin (Lord) 
 Kempe(A. B.). 
 Kennedy (Prof. A. B. W. 
 Kennedy (B.H.) . 
 Kennedy (P.) . 
 Keynes (J. N.). 
 
 KlEPERT (H.) . 
 
 Killen(W.D.) 
 KiNGSLEY (Charles) 5,9,11, 
 12,13,14,15,19,22,26,35,40,41 
 KiNGSLEY (Henry) . 21, 40 
 Kipling (J. L.). . . 40 
 Kipling (Rudyard) . . 19 
 
 KiRKPATRICK (Prof.) . 37 
 
 Klein (Dr. E.). . 6, 24, 26 
 
 37 
 
 • 19 
 
 • 37 
 19, 22 
 
 • 37 
 . 28 
 . 28 
 
 37, .S9 
 II, 14 
 
 37 
 31 
 32 
 31 
 .32 
 8 
 29 
 14 
 15 
 29 
 
 7 
 
 40 
 
 27 
 
 42 
 
 5 
 
 33 
 
 ,41 
 
 41 
 
 I 22 
 
 27 
 
 37 
 
 .26, 28, 20 
 28 
 ) 9 
 39 
 19 
 28, 3c 
 9 
 34 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Knight (W.) ... 14 
 
 Kuenen (Prof. A.) . . 32 
 
 Kynaston (Rev. H.) 37, 40 
 
 Labberton (R. H.). . 3 
 
 Lafargue (P.). . . 19 
 
 Lamb. . . .5, 21, 22 
 
 Lanciani (Prof. R.). . 2 
 
 Landauer (J.). . . 7 
 
 Landor . . . 4, 22 
 
 Lane-Poole (S.) . . 22 
 
 Lanfkey(P.) ... 5 
 
 Lang (Andrew) 
 
 Lang (Prof. Arnold). 
 
 Langley (J. N.) 
 
 Lankester (Prof. Ray) 
 
 Laslett (T.) . 
 
 Lea(A. S.) 
 
 Leaf(,W.) 
 
 Leahy (Sergeant) . 
 
 Lee (M.) . 
 
 Lee(S.) . . 21, 
 
 Leeper (A.) 
 
 Lf.gge (A. O.) . 
 
 Lemon (Mark) . . . ^^ 
 
 Lethbridge (Sir Roper) . n 
 
 Levy (Amy) . . .19 
 
 Lewis (R.) . . .13 
 
 LlGHTFOOT(Bp.) 23. 33, 35, 37 
 
 Lightwood (J. M.) . . 13 
 Lindsay (Dr. J. A.) . . 25 
 (J.N.) 
 
 13, 22. 39 
 
 • 42 
 . 29 
 6, 23 
 
 7 
 
 • 29 
 14, 39 
 
 ■ 32 
 
 • 19 
 39.40 
 
 • 39 
 ", 37 
 
 Lockyer 
 
 3. 7 
 
 Lodge (Prof. O.J.) 23, 28, 29 
 
 Loewy(B.) 
 Loftie (Mrs. W. J.). 
 Longfellow (H. W.) 
 Lonsdale (J.) . 2 
 
 Lowe (W. H.) . 
 Lowell (J. R.). 
 Lubbock (Sir J.) 6, 
 Lucas (F.) 
 Lucas (Joseph). 
 LUPTON (S.) 
 LvALL (Sir Alfred) 
 T.yte(H.C.M.) 
 Lyttelton (E.) 
 Lytton (Earl of) 
 MacAlister (D.) 
 Macarthur (M.) 
 Macau LAY (G. C.) 
 Maccoll (Norman) 
 M'Cosh (Dr. J.) 
 Macdonald (G.) 
 
 28 
 
 21, 39, 40 
 
 32, 33 
 
 13. 15, 23 
 
 ',9,23,43 
 
 IS 
 
 40 
 
 7 
 
 4 
 
 ir 
 
 2.3 
 
 19 
 
 25 
 
 II 
 
 39 
 
 15 
 
 28 
 
 17 
 
 30, 31 
 
 40 
 
 25 
 
 37 
 
 42 
 
 25 
 
 27 
 
 Macdonell (J.) 
 Mackail(J. W.) . 
 Maclagan (Dr. T.). 
 Maclaren (Rev. Alex.) 
 Maclaren (Archibald) 
 Maclean (W.C.) . . __, 
 Maclear (Rev. Dr.) 32,34,35 
 M'Lennan (J. F.) . . I 
 M'Lennan (Malcolm) 19 
 
 MACMILLAN(Rev. H.)23, 37,40 
 
 Macmillan (Michael) 5, 16 
 Macnamara (C.) . . 25 
 Macquoid (K. S.) . . 19 
 Mauoc (F.) ... 19 
 Maguire(J. F.) . . 42 
 
 MAHAFFY(Prof. J. P.) 
 
 14. 23, 27, 37 
 
 Maitland(F.W.) 
 Malet (L.) 
 Malory (Sir T.) 
 Mansfield (C. B.) 
 Markham (C. R.) 
 
 13, 31 
 • 19
 
 46 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Marriott (J. A. R.). . 6 
 Marshall (Prof. A.) . 30 
 Martel (C.) . . .25 
 Martin (Frances) . 3i 42 
 
 Martin (Frederick). . 30 
 Martin (H. N.) . . 43 
 Martineau (H.) . . 
 Martineau (J.) . . 5 
 Masson(D.) 4,5,16,21,23,27 
 Masson (G.) . . 8, 21 
 Masson(R.O.) . . 17 
 Maturin (Rev. W.). . 37 
 Maudsley (Dr. H.) . . 28 
 Maurice (F.) 9.23i27,32--35i37 
 Maurice (Col. F.) . 5,25,31 
 Max MuLi.ER (F.) . . 27 
 Mayer (A.M.). . . 29 
 Mayor (J- ^) • • ■ 34 
 Mayor (Prof. J. E. B.) . 3, 5 
 Mazini(L.) . . .42 
 M'Cormick: (W.S.) . . 14 
 Meldola (Prof, R.). 7, 28, 29 
 Mendenhall (T. C.) . 29 
 Mercier (Dr. C.) . . 25 
 Mercur (Prof. J.) . . 25 
 Meredith (G.). . . 16 
 Meredith (L. A.) . . 13 
 Meyer (E. von) . . 7 
 Michelet (M.) . . II 
 Mu.L(H.R.) ... 9 
 Miller (R.K.). . . 3 
 Milligan (Rev. W.). 34,37 
 Milton . . 5, 14, 16, 21 
 Minto (Prof. W.) . 4, 19 
 Mitfokd (A. B.) . . 19 
 MiVART (St. George). . 30 
 Mixtek(W. G.) , . 7 
 Mohammad . . .22 
 MOLESWORTH (Mrs.) . 42 
 
 Molloy (G.) ... 28 
 Monahan (J. H.) . . 13 
 montelius (o.) . . i 
 Moore (C. H.). . . 2 
 MooRHousE (Bishop) . 37 
 Morison (J. C.) . • 3, 4 
 'MoRLEY (John). 3, 4, 17, 23 
 Morris (Mowbray) . . 4 
 Morris (R.) . . 21, 27 
 morshead (e. d. a.) . 39 
 moulton (l. c.) . . 16 
 Mudie(C. E.) . . . 16 
 Muir(M. M.P.) . . 7 
 Muller(H.) ... 7 
 
 MULl.INGER (J. B.) . . II 
 
 Murphy (J. J.). . . 28 
 Murray (D. Christie) 19,20 
 Murray (E. C. G.) . . 40 
 Myers (E.) . . 16, 39 
 Myers (F. W. H.) . 4, 16, 23 
 Myi.ne (Bishop) . . 37 
 Nadal(E. S.). . . 23 
 Nettleship (H.). . . 14 
 Newcastle (Duke and 
 
 Duchess) 
 Nevvcomb (S.) . 
 Newton (Sir C.T.). 
 Nichol(J.) 
 Noel (Lady a.) 
 Nordenskiold (A. E.) 
 NoRGATE (Kate) 
 NoRRis(W. E.) 
 Norton (Charles Eliot) 3, 39 
 Norton (Hon. Mrs.) 16, 20 
 Oliphant (T. L. K.) 23, 27 
 
 PAGE 
 OLIPHANT(MrS. M. O. W.) 
 4, II, 14, 20, 21 
 
 Oliver (Prof. D.) 
 Oliver (Capt. S, P.) 
 Oman(C. W.) . 
 Ostwald (Prof.) 
 Ott6 (E. C.) . 
 Page (T. E.) . 
 Palgrave (Sir F.) 
 Palgrave(F.T.) 
 
 2, 16, 17, 21, 22, 35, 42 
 Palgrave (R. F. D.) . 31 
 Palgrave (R. H. Inglis) . 30 
 Palgrave (W. G.) 16, 31, 40 
 PALMER(Lady S.) 
 Parker (T. J.). 
 Parker (W. N.) 
 Parkin (G. R. ) 
 Parkinson (S.) 
 Parkman (F.) . 
 Parry (G ) . . .20 
 Parsons (Alfred) . . 13 
 Pasteur (L.) . , .7 
 Pater (W. H.) . 2, 20, 23 
 
 6, 42 
 , 42 
 
 ■ 31 
 , 29 
 
 • 13 
 21, 42 
 5 
 A, 5, 38 
 II, 31 
 9, 29 
 :6 
 
 Paterson (J.) . 
 Patmore (Coventry) 
 Patteson (J. C.) . 
 Pattison (Mark) . 
 Payne (E.J.) . 
 Peabody (C. H.) . 
 Peel (E.) . 
 
 Peile(J.). ... 27 
 
 Pellissier (E.) . . 27 
 Pennell(J.) . 
 Pennington (R.) 
 Penrose (F.C.) 
 Perkins (J. B.) 
 
 Perry (Prof. J.) . 29 
 Pettigrevv (J. B.) . 7, 30, 42 
 
 Phillimore (J. G.) . . 13 
 
 Phillips (J. A.) , . 25 
 
 Phillips (W. C.) . . 2 
 
 PiCTON (J. A.) . . . 23 
 
 Piffard (H. G.) . . 25 
 
 PlKE(W.). ... 41 
 
 Plato . . 21, 22, 39 
 
 Plumptre (Dean) . . 38 
 
 Pollard (A. W.) . . 40 
 
 PoLLOCK(SirFk., 2nd Bart.) 5 
 PoLLOCK(SirF., Bart.) 13,23,31 
 
 PoLi.ocK (Lady) . . 2 
 
 Pollock (W. H.) . . 2 
 
 Poole (M. E.) .• . . 23 
 
 Poole (R.L.) ... 12 
 
 POI'E . . . . 4, 21 
 
 Poste(E.) . . 29,3) 
 
 Potter (L.) . . 23 
 
 Potter (R.) ... 38 
 
 Preston (T.) ... 29 
 
 Price (L. L. F. R.) . . 30 
 
 Prickard (A. O.) . . 23 
 
 Prince Albert Victor . 40 
 
 Prince George . . 40 
 Procter (F.) . . .34 
 
 Propert (J. L.) . . 2 
 
 Raucliffe (C. B.) , .. 3 
 
 Ra.msay (W.) ... 7 
 
 Ransome(C.) . . . 14 
 
 Rathbone (W.) , . 8 
 
 Rawlinson (\V. G.). . 13 
 
 Rawnsley (H. D.) . . 16 
 
 Ray(P.K.) ... 28 
 
 Rayleigh (Lord) . . 29 
 
 Reichel (Bishop) . . 38 
 
 Reid (J. S.) . 
 Remsen (L) 
 
 RENDALL(Rev. F.) . 
 
 Rendu (M.ieC.) . 
 Reynolds (H. R.) . 
 Reynolds (J. R.) . 
 Reynolds (O.) 
 Rhodes (J. F.). 
 Richardson (B. W.) 
 Richey(A. G.). 
 Ritchie (A.) . 
 Robinson (Pieb. H.G.) 
 Robinson (J. L.) 
 Robinson (Matthew) 
 Rochester (Bishop of) 
 ROCKSTRO (\V. S.) . 
 Rogers (J. E.T.) . 
 Romanes G.J.) 
 RoscoE(Sir H.E.) . 
 RoscoE(\V. C.) 
 RosEUERY (Earl oQ. 
 Rosenijusch(H.) 
 Ross (P.) . 
 Rossetti (C. G.) . 
 Routi.edge (J.) 
 RowE(F.J.) . 
 Roy (John) 
 RCcker (Prof. A. W.) 
 RuMFORD (Count) . 
 Rushbrooke (W. G.) 
 Russell (Dean) 
 Russell (Sir Charles) 
 Russell (W. Clark) . 
 Rvland (F.) . 
 RYLE(Prof. H. E.) 
 St. JoHNs^ u.v (A.) 
 Sadler (H.) 
 Saintsb'jrv (G.) 
 Salmon (Rev. G.) . 
 Sandford (Bishop) . 
 Sandford (M. E.) . 
 Sandys (J. E.) . 
 Sayce(A. H.) . 
 Schaff (P.) . 
 
 SCHLIEMANN'(Dr.) . 
 
 Schorlemmkr (C.) . 
 Scott (D. H.) . 
 Scott (Sir W.). 
 Scratchi.ey (Sir Peter) 
 
 SCUDDER (S. H.) 
 
 SEATON(Dr. E. C.) . 
 Seeley fj. R.) . 
 Skiler (Dr. Carl) . 
 
 SELBORNE(KarloO 
 
 Sellers (E, ) . 
 
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 39' 
 7 
 
 34,38 
 10 
 38 
 
 42 
 
 31 
 17 
 
 2a 
 
 8 
 23 
 
 33 
 
 38 
 
 31 
 
 4, 20 
 
 14 
 
 32, 38 
 
 20, 41, 42 
 
 3 
 
 4. 14 
 
 • 33 
 
 • 38 
 
 • 5 
 
 • 4t 
 
 [3,21 
 
 25, 3«> 
 ,34.35 
 
 Service (J.) 
 Seweli.(E. M.) 
 Shadwei L (C. L.) . 
 Shairp (J. C.) . 
 Shakespe.\re . 14, i( 
 Shann .G. ) 
 Sharp (W.) . 
 Shelley . 
 Shirley (W.N.) . 
 Shorthouse (J. H.) 
 Shortland (Admiral) 
 Shuchhardt (Carl). 
 Shuckburgh (E. S. ) 
 Shufeldt (R. W.) . 
 Sibson (Dr. F.) 
 SiDGWICK (Prof. H. 
 
 SlME(J.) . 
 
 Simpson (Rev. W.) 
 Skeat (W.W.) 
 
 35. 38 
 
 12, 39 
 . 42 
 
 • 25 
 27, 30, 31 
 
 9, II 
 
 • 34 
 
 • 14
 
 INDEX. 
 
 47 
 
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 5 
 9 
 3^ 
 30 
 2^ 
 5 
 
 Skrine (J. H.). 
 Slade (J. H.) . 
 Sloman (Rev. A.) . 
 Smart (W.) . 
 Smalley{G. W.) . 
 Smetham (J. and S.) 
 Smith (A.) . . .21 
 Smith (C. B.) • • • 16 
 Smith (Goldwin) 4, 6, 32, 41 
 Smith (H.) ... 16 
 Smith (J.) ... 7 
 Smith (Rev. T.) . . 3« 
 Smith (W. G.) . . .7 
 Smith (W.S.) ... 38 
 Somerville (Prof. W.) . 6 
 Southev .... 5 
 Spender (J. K.) . . 25 
 Spenser . . . .21 
 Spottiswoode(W.). . 29 
 Stanley (Dean) . • 38 
 Stanley (Hon. Maude) . 32 
 Statham (R.) . . -32 
 Stebbing (W.). . . 4 
 Stephen (C. E.) . . 8 
 Stephen (H.) . . -13 
 Stephen (Sir J. F.) 12, 13, 23 
 Stephen (J. K.) . . 13 
 Stephen (L.) ... 4 
 Stephens (J. B.) . . 16 
 Stevenson (J. J.) • .2 
 Stewart (A.) . . .42 
 Stewart (Balfour) 28, 2q, 38 
 Stewart (S. A.) . . 7 
 Stokes (Sir G. G.) . . 29 
 Story (R. H.) . . . 4 
 Stone (W. H.) . . . 29 
 Strachey (Sir E.) . . 21 
 
 STRACHEY(Gen. R.). . 9 
 
 STRANGFORD(Viscountess) 41 
 
 Strettell (A.) . . 16 
 
 STUBBs(Rev. C.W.). . 38 
 
 Stubbs (Bishop) . . 34 
 
 Sutherland (A.) . . 9 
 
 Symonds (J. A.) . . 4 
 
 Symonds (Mrs. J. A.) . 5 
 
 Symons (A.) . . .16 
 
 Tait (Archbishop) . . 38 
 
 Tait(C.W. A.) . . 12 
 
 Tait (Prof. P. G.) . 28, 29 
 
 Tanner (H.) . . . i 
 
 Tavernier (J. B.) . . 4T 
 
 Taylor (Franklin) . . 26 
 
 Taylok (Isaac). . 27, 38 
 
 Taylor (Sedley) . 26, 29 
 Tegetmeier (W. B.) 
 Temple (Bishop) 
 Temple (Sir R.) 
 Tennant (Dorothy). 
 Tenniel . 
 
 Tennyson . i^ 
 
 Tennyson (Frederick) 
 
 Tennyson (Hallam). 
 Theodoli (Marchesa) 
 Thompson (D 'A. \/.) 
 Thompson (E.). 
 Thompson (H. M.) , 
 Thompson (S. P.) . 
 Thomson (A. W.) 
 Thomson (Sir C. W.) 
 Thomson (Hugh) 
 Thorne (Dr. Thorne) 
 Thornton (J.). 
 Thornton (W. T.) 27, 
 Thokpe(T. E.). 
 Thring(E.) . 
 Thrupp(J. F.) 
 
 Thudichi'm (t. L.W.) 
 
 (J.R. 
 
 Thursfield ^j. . 
 Todhunter (I.) 
 Torrens (W. M.) . 
 tourgenief (i. s.) . 
 Tout(T.F.) . 
 Tozer(H. F.) . 
 Traill (H. D.). 
 Trench (Capt. F.) . 
 Trench (Archbishop) 
 Trevelyan (Sir G. O.) 
 Tribe (A.). 
 Tristram (W. O.) . 
 Trollope (A.) . 
 Truman (J.) 
 Tucker (T. (5.) . 
 TuLLOCH (Principal). 
 Turner (C. Tennyson) 
 Turner (G.) . 
 Turner (H.H.) 
 Turner (J. M.W.) . 
 Tylok(E. B.) . 
 Tyrwhitt(R. St. J.) 
 Vaughan(C.J.) 33.34) 
 Vaughan (Rev. D. J.) 
 
 VAUGHAN(ReV.E.T.) 
 
 Vaughan (Rev. R.) . 
 Veley (M.) 
 Venn (Rev. J.). 
 Vernon (Hon. W.W.) 
 Verrall (A. W.) . 
 Verrall (Mrs.) 
 Victor (H.) . 
 Wain (Louis) . 
 Waldstein (C.) 
 Walker (Prof. F. A.) 
 Walker (Jas.) 
 Wallace (A. R.) . 6, 
 Wallace (Sir D. M.) 
 Walpole(S.) . 
 Walton (I.) 
 Ward (A. W.) . . 4, 
 Ward(H. M.). 
 Ward(S.). 
 Ward(T. H.) . 
 Ward (Mrs. T. H.) . 
 
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 30 
 29 
 9 
 43 
 12 
 
 25 
 
 6 
 
 32, 39 
 
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 9. 23 
 
 32 
 
 7 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 20 
 
 12 
 
 9 
 
 4, 31 
 
 38 
 12 
 
 7 
 13 
 
 4 
 17 
 39 
 
 17 
 
 I 
 
 29 
 
 13 
 
 I 
 
 2, 17 
 
 35,38 
 
 38 
 
 38 
 
 38 
 
 20 
 
 28, 38 
 
 14 
 
 39 
 
 42 
 
 2 
 
 30 
 
 7 
 
 6, 30 
 
 32 
 
 31 
 
 13 
 
 14, 21 
 
 7 
 
 • 17 
 
 • 17 
 20, 42 
 
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 Ward (W.) . . 5, 34 
 Warington (G.) . . 38 
 Waters (C. A.) . . 3° 
 Waterton (Charles) 26, 41 
 Watson (E.) ... 5 
 Watson (R.S.) . . 41 
 Watson (W.) . . 17, 22 
 Webb(W.T.) ... 17 
 Webster (Mrs. A.) . . 42r 
 Welby-Gregory (Lady) . 35 
 Welldon (Rev. J. E. C.) . 39 
 Westcott (Bp.)32, 33,34,35,39. 
 Westermarck (E.). . I 
 
 Wetherell (J.) 
 Wheeler (T. T.) . 
 Whewell (W.). 
 White (Gilbert) 
 White (Dr. W. Hale) 
 White (W.) . 
 Whitham (J. M.) . 
 Whitney (W.D.) . 
 Whittier(J. G.) . 
 Wickham (Rev. E. C.) 
 Wicksteed (P. H.) . 
 Wiedersheim (R.) . 
 Wilbraham (F. M.). 
 
 . 27 
 . 12 
 5 
 . 26 
 . 25 
 
 • 29 
 
 • 9 
 . 8 
 
 17. 23 
 
 • 39 
 30, 32- 
 
 . 42 
 35 
 
 Wilkins (Prof. A. S.) 2, 14, 39 
 Wilkinson (S.) . . 25 
 Williams (G. H.) . . 10. 
 Williams (Montagu) . 5 
 Williams (S. E.) . . 13 
 Willoughby (F.) . . 42 
 Wills (W. G.) . . . 17 
 Wilson (A.J.) . . . 31 
 Wilson (Sir C.) . . 4 
 Wilson (Sir D.) . 1,4,14 
 Wilson (Dr. G.) . 4, 5, 23 
 Wilson (Archdeacon) . 39 
 Wilson (Mar^^). . . 14 
 Wingate (Major F. R.) . 25 
 Winkworth (C.) . . 6 
 WoLSELEY (Gen. Viscount) 25 
 Wood (A. G.) ... 17 
 Wood (Rev. E. G.) . . 39 
 Woods (Rev. F.H.). . i 
 Woods (Miss M. A.). 18, 35 
 Woodward (C. M.) . . 9 
 Woolner (T.) . . .17 
 Wordsworth . 5, 14, 17, 21 
 Worthey (Mrs.) . • 20 
 Wright (Rev. A.) . . 33 
 Wright (C. E.G.) . . 8 
 Wright (J.) . . .22 
 Wright iL.) . . . 29 
 Wright(W.A.) 8,16,21,27,34 
 WuRTz(Ad.) ... 8 
 Wyatt (SirM. D.) . . 2 
 Yonge {C. M.) 5, 6, 7, 8, II, 12, 
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