p at the station,” I was inwardly agitating myself with the new thought, “Can she have had 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, Belstaff Centaur Kurtki motionless in his place, hesitated Maillot Afrique du Sud what reply to give to this simple question.
“Guy has not told you, then,” said he, “what caused the shock that Maillot Sevilla 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 Belstaff Nowy Albatross Kurtki 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 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 Mitchell Marner Tröja manifest surprise and impatience for her brother to speak.
“He was drowned.”
“Drowned?”
“Yes.”
“When?”
“Yesterday.”
“Where?”
This time the answer was Ben Smith Tröja not forthcoming. Was it because he knew the place too well? I dared not lift my San Jose Dresy eyes to see.
“Was Maillot Cavani it in the mill-stream?” she asked.
This time he uttered a hollow “No.” Then, as if he felt 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 case, and no other explanation will ever be given. Why he should have committed such a deed,” he went on, Maillot Juventus 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 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 Tie Domi Tröja my reason, if not to my head, seemed to belie Rosenborg Dresy his words, he offered his arm to his bewildered sister and Woolrich Męskie Arctic Parka quietly led her towards the door.
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