CARRINGTON MEWS,
_12th March._
Dear Agatha,--The letter you sent in answer to my wire has remained too
long unanswered, but I have, since Katherine's death, been immersed in
correspondence of a most uninteresting and tedious description. The work
entailed in the settling of affairs is colossal, and when I haven't been
writing tiresome business epistles, or others even more tiresome to
people who never remembered my existence when I was a poor man, the
lawyers have had me in their octopus-like clutches.
You will notice that I refer to my poverty in the past tense. Yes,
Agatha, I have no longer to consider whether I can afford a glass of ale
with my chop for lunch, or half a crown for admission to the pit (to be
quite correct, I should say three shillings, the odd sixpence being
one's contribution towards the expenses of the war). I can even, if I
wish, call a taxi to take me round the corner, or ask Mrs. Darling to
dine with me at the Ritz. Katherine left me all she possessed. She did
it, I believe, with qualms as to the wisdom of the deed, but, as I have
remarked before, "blood is thicker than water," and the habit of giving,
where I am concerned, had become with Katherine a habit. Her
forebodings, however, were apparent in the wording of her will, and her
lawyer treated me to quite a sermon when I called to sign some papers
the other day. He said it behoved me to take up the social duties
entailed in the possession of a house in Curzon Street, together with an
income of five thousand a year. The Countess, he reminded me, had always
been very punctilious in the discharge of her obligations as a member of
the aristocracy, and it would be an act of ingratitude on my part if I
failed to carry on the family traditions. (I wonder if he has, at any
time, seen me with Mrs. Darling.) He hinted at the desirability of my
settling down with a suitable wife. Mrs. Darling, by the way, has
already had her say on this subject, putting it a little more crudely,
and with a rather unflattering reference to "Old Parr". By the way, she
refuses absolutely to go any more jaunts round London with me. She says
if I don't know my place, she knows hers, and that she has no ambition
to "git into the papers". She added that there had been a man with a
camera hanging about the Mews lately, and she shouldn't wonder if he
wasn't waiting to snapshot the heir to the Countess of Corbridge's
thousands.
Mrs. Darling, alas! has altered. Gone is her air of good comradeship,
gone _her_ meat puddings, and _my_ snowy pocket handkerchiefs. She says
I can afford to lunch out properly now, and send my washing to a laundry
in the country. She seems to have lost interest in me since I ceased to
want anything of her. It's a trait I have noticed in women in whom the
maternal instinct is strongly developed. But if Mrs. Darling is
faithless to me, I am not faithless to her. I have plans for the old
lady which I shall unfold in due course. Katherine pensioned her
housekeeper, who is retiring, and I propose taking Mrs. Darling with me
to Curzon Street. She will be almost as difficult to transplant from
Carrington Mews as I shall, but a companion in misfortune softens the
blow, and we shall help each other.
Dear me, Agatha, but this is a doleful letter, and to tell the truth, my
mood is not hilarious. I would give a good deal to have Katherine back
in Curzon Street, and myself secure in a life of vagabondage. When I
think of all this new life entails I lose heart, and fear to lose my
youth also.
Now I come to think of it, that's an admission worthy of Old Parr
himself. Lose my youth at sixty-five! Haven't I already lost it? The
answer is--No, for youth and vagabondage are synonymous. There is only
one person who can help me in such a crisis, and that person is
yourself. Existence has become too complex to be faced alone. I want
some one to help me spend this money in the service of those to whom a
few pounds makes the difference between heaven and hell, and your talent
for philanthropy has always been handicapped by lack of means. There is,
though, a condition attached which may put you off the bargain--George
Tallenach is, as Mrs. Darling will tell you, "not everybody's money".
But years ago there was a woman who stuck up for George when no one else
had a good word to say for him. If now he asks her to change the duties
of friend for those of a wife, will she think it too late?
Adieu, Agatha, and may the meeting, and the answer, come soon.
GEORGE TALLENACH.
_Postscript._
George sealed the letter and moved to his armchair by the hearth. The
March evening was chill and the fire was companionable. He was in no
hurry to light his lamp, for there was always at such an hour the book
in the grate which could be best read in the dark.
Turning its leaves to-night he found the record of a past which, if it
offered nothing else, certainly provided variety of interest, and
through its changing scenes there had always been Agatha. Agatha who, in
those days when they first met, had been a beauty with a score of
admirers. He had never understood why she had given them all the go-by
to remain true to his unworthy self. He supposed it had become a habit.
If Agatha had a fault it was that she was given to habits. She was also
inclined to be conventional. He had seen her wince involuntarily when he
had shocked some social prejudice, but the wince had been hustled into a
corner by the smiling eyes that said, "It's very silly of me, I know".
There was no doubt his friendship had saved her from the worst perils of
spinsterhood. She would take to Curzon Street like a fish to water, and
she would accept Mrs. Darling with the wince and its accompanying smile.
The smile he had no doubt would triumph in the end, for Mrs. Darling was
a sport and Agatha was no snob.
His chin dropped on his chest as the scene shifted to those days of
vagabondage which had come with the gift of Katherine's two hundred a
year. Days when the London streets had been the scene of limitless
wanderings, providing undying interest and entertainment, romance and
adventure. They had been happy days--were they ended?
The door opened with a jerk, letting in a draught and Mrs. Darling.
"Jest as I expected!" she exclaimed. "I ses to myself as I was comin' up
the stairs, I ses, 'I wouldn't mind bettin' 'e's sittin' there in the
dark, lettin' the fire out,'" and the speaker, after making a vigorous
onslaught on a smouldering lump of coal, looked round for matches.
"I don't want the lamp lit yet," complained George.
But Mrs. D. calmly proceeded with her self-elected task. "Sittin' in the
dark's only fit for blind people and lovers," she stated, and her eyes
went towards the stamped letter which lay on the writing pad.
"I'm jest goin' to the post, I'll take it," she offered, and a few
minutes later, as she dropped the letter into the box, she said to
herself, "If he _'as_ asked her to marry 'im, it's jest as well not to
give 'im the chance of changin' 'is mind."
THE END.
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