Page:Bridefrombush00horn.pdf/228

222 suddenly, round a corner as it were. So I have been thinking that you may as well be in town too, to be near at hand in case I am successful. If you still have a club, you might hang about there, and talk to men, and read the papers; if not Why do you shake your head?'

'I am not going to town any more,' said Alfred, in low, decided tones. 'If you are right, and she is not dead, she may come back—she may come back! Then I shall be here to meet her—and—and But you understand me, Gran?'

'Not very well,' said Granville, dryly, and with a shrug of his shoulders that was meant to shift from them all responsibility for Alfred's possible insanity. 'In your case I should prefer to be in town rather than here. However, a man judges for himself. There is one thing, however; if you stay here all day'

'What's that?'

'The question whether you should tell the Judge and the mater.'

'No,' said Alfred, resolutely; 'I shall not