So now--when Lionel is over the
worst of the fever--when he promises to get well--when you say to me I
can be of no more use--then I return to Naples to my friends."
"Oh, to Naples? But what to do there?" he made bold to ask.
"Ah, who knows?" said Nina, in so low a voice that he could hardly hear.
He put her safely into a four-wheeled cab; then went back to Lionel's
rooms to see that all arrangements were made for the night; finally he
set out for his own chambers in Westminster. No, it had not been a
dawdling day for him at all; on the contrary, he had not had time to
glance at a single newspaper, and now, as he got some hot drink for
himself and lit his pipe and hauled in an easy-chair to the fire, he
thought he would look over the evening journals. And about the first
paragraph he saw was headed, "Death of Sir Barrington Miles, M.P." Well,
it was a bit of a coincidence, he considered; nothing more; the L1100
had been paid, and, apart from that circumstance, it must be confessed,
his interest in the Miles family was of the slightest. Only he wondered
what the young man was doing in Paris, with his father so near the point
of death.
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