The Argosy — page 280: what you’re looking at

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Court Netherleigh. 203 Sandy for me: you will be sure to see him somewhere in the rooms. Say my sister does not feel well and we have gone home.” The entering guest nodded. ‘They passed out to the carriage, ‘and were soon bowling along the streets. Adela drew into her corner, cowering and shivering. “Did you see him?” she gasped. “Oh, yes, I saw him,” grumblingly responded Lady Harriet, who was not best pleased at Riving to quit the gay scene in this summary. fashion. ‘“‘J am sure Sandy will conclude we have been spinted: away, unless Mrs. Seymour finds him. A fine flurry he’ll be in.” ‘¢ Harriet, what did it meanP ‘They called him Sir F rancis Netherleigh.” “ He is Sir Francis Netherleigh.” “Since when? Why did you not tell me?” : “He has been Francis Netherleigh since Aunt Margery died: the. name came to him with the property. He has been .Szr Francis. since—oh, for about six weeks now. Uncle Francis wished the baronetcy to be revived in him, and his wishes have been carried. out.” Adela paused, apparently revolving the information. ‘‘ Then his name is no longer Grubb ?” ‘““In one sense, no. For all social uses that name has passed from. him.” “Why did you never tell me of this?” repeated Adela. , “From the uncertainty as to whether you would care to hear it, Adela. We decided to say nothing until you were stronger.” A second pause of thought. ‘If he has succeeded to the name, why, sohave I. Have I not? Though he puts me away from him- self, Harriet, he cannot take from me his name.’ ‘““Of course you have succeeded to it.” Pause the third. ‘“ Then J ought to have been announced to- night as Lady Adela Netherleigh !” “Had you been announced at all. You solved the difficulty, you know, by telling me you would not be announced—that you would creep in after me and Sandy.” “The difficulty! What difficulty ?” ‘Well, had you heard yourself called Bothericich: you would have wanted to know, there and then, the why and the wherefore. It might have created a small seein.” Pause the fourth. ‘‘ Who is he in mourning for? Aunt Margery?” ‘And also for his mother. Mrs. Lynn lived just long enough to see him take up the baronetcy. I think it must have gratified her— that her son should be the one to succeed at last. Se would have had Court Netherleigh in the old days, Adela, had she not displeased Uncle Francis by her marriage, not Margery Upton. He told Margery so when he was dying.” The world seems full of changes,” sighed Adela. EORnnicloooks (CO)