p at the station,” I was inwardly agitating myself with the new thought, “Can she have had Chaussures New Balance 680 any thing to do with Mr. Barrows? Can she be the woman he was engaged to before he fell in love with Ada?”
The expression of her face, turned though
It was full upon us, told nothing, and my attention, though not my glances, passed to Mr. Pollard, who, motionless in his place, hesitated what reply to give to this simple question.
“Guy has not told you, then,” said he, “what caused the shock that has prostrated our mother?”
“No,” she returned, coming quickly back.
“It was the news of Mr. Barrows’ death, Agnes; the servants say so, and the servants ought to know.”
“Mr. Barrows’ death! Is Mr. Barrows dead, then?” she asked, in a tone of simple wonder, which convinced me that my surmise of a moment ago was without any foundation. “I did not know he was sick,” she went on. “Was his death sudden, that it should affect mother so?”
A short nod was all her brother seemed to be able to give to this question. At sight of it I felt Chaussures Nike Zoom Femme the cold chills run through my veins, and wished that fate had not obliged me to be present at this conversation.
“How did Mr. Barrows die?” queried Mrs. Harrington, after waiting in manifest surprise and impatience for her brother to speak.
“He was drowned.”
“Drowned?”
“Yes.”
“When?”
“Yesterday.”
“Where?”
This time the answer was not forthcoming. Was it because he Kurtka North Face Męskie Waterproof knew the place too well? I dared not lift my eyes to see.
“Was it in the mill-stream?” she asked.
This time he uttered a hollow “No.” Then, as if he felt Dame Moncler Bady himself too weak to submit to this cross-questioning, he pushed back his chair, and, hurriedly rising, said:
“It is a very shocking affair, Agnes. Mr. Barrows was found in a vat in the cellar of the old mill. He drowned himself. No one knows his motive.”
“Drowned himself?” Did she speak or I? I saw her lips move, and I heard the words uttered as I thought in her voice; but it was to me he directed his look, and to me he seemed to reply:
“Yes; how else account for the circumstances? Is he a man to have enemies? — or is that a place a man would be likely to seek for pleasure?”
“But —” the trembling little woman at my side began.
“I say it is a suicide,” he broke in, imperiously, giving his sister one look, and then settling his eyes back again upon my face. “No other explanation fits the Menn Moncler Branson case, and no other explanation will ever be given. Why he should have committed such a deed,” he went on, in a changed voice, and after a momentary pause, “it would be impossible for me, and perhaps for any other man, to say; but that he did do Southampton Pas Cher it is evident, and that is all I mean to assert. The rest I leave for wiser heads than mine.” And turning from me with an indescribable look that to my reason, if not to my Canada Goose Langford Parka head, seemed to belie his words, he offered his arm to his bewildered sister and quietly led her towards the door.
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