I can't tell you how he influenced me, for he really said no
more than I tell you; but I yielded to his evident wish without knowing
why I did so, and I closed with him for six months, not a year."
"Glamour, Mr. Henniker!"
"It would seem so, Mrs. Marchmont. We went to the Hall, and Angela was
delighted with it. The snowdrops lay in snowy masses about the
grounds--the garden gave promise of beauty as the season advanced. How
the children ran over the house! how charmed we were with every nook and
corner of it! Our own bed-room was a comfortable, large room, opening
into a very roomy dressing-room, in which my wife placed two cribs for
our youngest boys, Hal and Jack--"
"Don't forget to say that our bed-chamber opened from a sitting-room,"
interrupted Mrs. Henniker.
"Well, for three weeks we all slept the sleep of the just in our really
splendid suite of apartments. Not a grumble from our servants--nothing
but satisfaction with our rare bargain. I was on the eve of returning to
dear, dirty Dublin and the Four Courts, when--"
"When? We are all attention, Mr. Henniker."
"Angela and I were sitting in the drawing-room under the bed-chamber I
have described, when a loud cry startled us, 'Mother, mother, mother!'
"The little boys were in bed in the dressing-room.
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