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"There you are," be said un-
graciously enough and Diana took
the letter, noting with disgust as
ulhe did so, that it bore the imprint
of a grimy thumb 'here he had
touched it,
"Wait a =anent," cried Diana as
he 'would have closed the door,
"there's 'something I want to say to
you,"
"What Is ft now?"
"I am staying with Miss Saun-
ders, down in the village," Diana
spoke as site did not somehow ex-
pect that he would give her a very
long hearing. "She is worried about
her roof."
The man's dark fare grew darker
in expression.
"'That's nothing to do with me,"
he declared.
"But it looks," Protested Diana,
"terribly."
"I can't help that," he replied
with a shrug of his shoulders, so in-
solent that Diana grew furiously
angry.
"You must do somet'hing," she
cried.
"New just you listen to me," he
told her rudely, "the repairs are
nothing to do with me, and if you
want anything done, you had better
go and see the squire's agent a'Hout
that."
With that he closed the door re-
gardless of the facet that Diana had
opened .her mouth to streak again,
and she was lea standing on the
door step.
"And now for Mr. Jones," khe re•
marked aloud to herself, es she
strode of down the drive.
She had no difficulty in discover•
ing the agent's house, and wnen
she arrived there the door +vas
opened by a man whom hhe a°ter-
war^cds discovered to be the agent
_'r. Hi 'was a very different
type of mato from Graham, but she
diel not find It any easier to make
him see reason.
He was a thickyl-built kan, with
a round. pale expressionless face,
and a very suave manner,
He listened gravely and politely
while Diana explained all about
Nanny Slander.'" difficulties with
the root, In fart .so attentive was
his manner that anyone would have
been justified in coming to the con-
clusion that he had never heard
the story before.
When she had quite finished tell-
ing her story, he set to work to ex-
plain his point of view, and launch -
ail ,.'1!'t d„a FRl,IL1�
eel out on such a flood of statistics,
and technicalities, that Diana was
completely at sea.
Trenn you mean you won't do
anything tto help?" she asked
abruptly at length,
He held up a fat, white depreclat-
ing hand.
'Don't say that I won't do any-
thing to .help, Ile pleaded, "say
rather that I can't,"
"Verywell then," Diana rose to
her feet with a sudden little gesture
of revolve, "I slhall go and s.es the
squire,"
A sudden look of alarm leapt lute
the agent's eyes.
"Couldn't we conte to some sort
of icmpromise?" he asked, ''1 mean
I can't do anything at the moment,
but perhaps In a few months' time,
I might be able to get that root re-
paired.'
"A few menthe time is, no good to
Bliss Saunders," declared Diana,
'because in the meanwhile her bed-
room is being flooded out. No, 1
think I'll go and see the squire."
"He won't see you. "the agent)
assured her, "I'm quite sure of that, i
Miss Lewis. He's not very fond of
women, particularly it you will
pardon, my saying .so, of young
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"Well, I can go and see if he
will," said Diana firmly and' 'inercn-
ed off down the hill agate in the
direction of the gates of 'Upton
Lode*, which she had noticed on
her way to the agent's house.
It w. s not till she had actually
reached the front door of Upton
Lodge, and was waiting for an an -
ewer to her ring et the hell, that
1t ocorrect to her that she did not
even know the name of the ntaa
whom she had came to see, In her
conversations with Nanny Satunders.
and the agent, he had 1reen simply
referred to as `The squire.'
When, the door was opened, she
began, "Ist----" then feeling that to
say the squire sounded ratite,'
theatrical she completed her sen-
tence with, "your feaster at home?"
"Yes, madam," the maid looked a
little surprised, it was quite clear
that the squire was not in the habil
of having lady visitors.
"Can I see ]nim, please?" Liana
continued.
The maid hesitated.
"If you will come this way,
madam," she said at last, "I'll en-
quire,"
She ushered Diana across the big
hall, hung with antlers ,anti a
strange .eoliention of weapons, and
left her in a small siting -room fitted
up as a study.
The high French window was
open to t'he s'at'ing sunshine cunt
Diana was. standing looking out at
the beautifully -planner] grounds.
when the sudden opening of the
door made her look rostuli.
To her extreme sus^pise, the new
comer was the man wham she had
last seen or the clerk of the`11i'ireino
on the afternoon, when they had
watched the white cliffs or Eng-
land slipping past them.
"Why, Captain Maslow; she cried.
"Won't you sat down," he enquir-
ed as the shook hands, gravely.
Diana sank into the chair he in-
dicated,
"I never thought of seeing you
here," she went on, with that strid-
den access of hapiness mingled with
shyness, which his presence always
imposed upon her,
He raised his eyebrows questton-
ingly.
"And yet I understand that you
asked to see one," he pointed out.
"Yes, but you see I didn't know it
was you," Diana explained a little
breathlessly, "I had only heard of
you as the squire, and I hadn't
heart' your name mentioned. I
casae to see you about Nanny Soun-
der's roof,
He threw her a quick scrutinising
glance. "Wont' you first of all telt
me who Nanny Saunders is." he ask-
ed, and hie bocce was perceptibly
warmer,
She's a tenant of yours," Diouf
still sounded rather as though she
had been running a race, "at least 1'
that is the point, no one semi quite II1l ata
certain whether she's really your ' th
tenant or Graham's."
This' time he smiled, in what she
deaclbed to herself afterwards as
quite a human way.
"You must pardon n y stupidity,"
lie said, but couldn't you emnlaia to
me 'who Graham
Diana took a deep breath.
"I think I'd better begin at the
very beginning, she remarked.
"Perhaps it would he as well," he
agreed With another smile.
So Diana told .hien all about
Nanny Saunders' roof, and, the ef-
forts made by the agent and the
unspeakable Graham, each to
shelve the (blame off on to the
other.
When she had exlpained every-
thing', lie said—
think the best thing week]
be if I were to stroll down thsi atter.
noon, and see the root for nlYself.
Personally I am Inclined to agree
with Nanny Saunders, that the
responsibility for mending it rests
With me. I shall certainly speak to
my agent about it, and I am ex-
tremely sorry that the disagreement
should have arisen, because my
untie from whom I inherited the
place, was I know, regarded round
here as a model landlord, and T am
most anxious to live ns to hie repu-
tation,"
"Thank you very Mach," Diana
rose to her feet, "tit "would be most
awfully kind of you, it yolt would.
have something done about it, be-
cause it lit' a most awYttl worry to
Nanny, and besides it's so discount
aging for her 'id keep on white-
washing the colony, and then have
the rain come thrrouglr again,'
"It must be ft'igh'tfhlty disho
ening," ho agreed, "so I'll eerta1
comet along tins afternoon, clad
what can be done a%boot 11"
art
my
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OHAPT•ER, Y1II;
A Tea Party.
When Nanny Saunders heard that
sure twos to have a visit from the
sgtiiro that. afternoon, she was
tb1rrown into a acute of great trepl-
dation,
"Of .noose, I knolw you couldn't
help 1t, missy" she said, "but I d
wash I'd known that he was coed)
sooner than this, You see sue
short notice doesn't gift me slue
time to get the house clean."
"Brut Nanny (Saunders," proteute
Diana •wnitle a little laugh "the Nous
always looks spotless."
]'fanny looked, s•ound the lit:'
sitting roost with dissaproving eyes
"It may look well enough to
eveny-day use," she announced, "lea
it the square's coming that is quit
a different matter, As I say, 1 whit
I had known earlier, because then
Psi have got on with eleanhig this
morning, instead of going os I did
round to the doctor's' to enquire
after piaster Dick,"
Ian spite of all Diana's protests,
she insisted on cleaning as much of
the house as was possande before
Captain Marlow arrived; yet wtisu
he drew up at the gate, she was hi
her usual Positively miraculous
stale of neatness.
has Marlow examined the house.
In the most conscientious way, gu-
in.g aps.table to Nanny Saunders'
bedroom, in cadres to inspect the wet
Patch in the ceiling, and even
climbing up% the ladder, which
Nanny had Groped: up against the
side of the house in readiness for
his coming, so that he could see. the
roof for therneelf.
"'Nell, Miss Saundea'e, 'he said as
lie stepped off the bottosn rung of
the ladder, clapped Ills hands to-
gether, to rid tliem of soiue of the
dust he had collected during his
inspection of the roof, "I'll have
that damage put right, as Soon as
possible,"
"Thank you very kuch, sir," sai'i
Nanny gratefully, "1 shall be ve: y
glad to get it done. I was wonder-
ing. sir—" she faltered and cant1
to a suttee standstill. "1 was wan:
Bering—' 'she began again, but
was 0000 more unable to get any
further',
"Yes, he enquired kindly "did
you want Something more done
while we are about it?"
"No, thank you very much though
all the same," she replied nervously,
"I think what Nanny Saunders
is trying to say, is, won't you stop
and have some tea,," put iu Diana,
who knew that the old nurse cher-
ished secret ambitions on tints score.
Ian Marlow smiled one of those
rare smiles which lighted up his
grave face so very pleasantly,
"Thanks very much, I should like
to; he replied, and Nanny, delighted
to have so important a person as
the squire to tea ushered him into
the house.
Dianathoroughly enjoyed' that
ea party. Ian, who an a rule ap-
eared' so formidable, unbent to a
rtling degree, and Diana came to
e conclmsdon that a good deal of
his former coldness was due to shy.
nese,
Nanny Saunders was in her ele-
meat, she Sart very erect at the
head. of the table, and dispensed the
tea with an air, while Diana made
Ian laugh with an account' of her
adwentures on the evening of her
s,rrival at Newsham,
"1110 all very weal to laugh," she
told hien with mock severity, 'but
I can' asusre you that It was no
laughing matter at the time"
He grew suddenly gritve again.
"No, it can't have been," he
agreed "301101 a fortunate thing
that you 'went to that baker's wife,
who took you to Mrs, Howard. I
have heard; front other sources how
very kind she and the doctor are,'
Nannq Saunders shook her bead
complacently.
"ht wouldn't have mattered who
she had, gone to," she remarked,
"anyone in the village would have
taken Miss, Lewis to my late mtist-
re6s. Tveryone turns to her In any
difficulty," ,
"11 must go and call on' Mrs.
Howard," he said with a little
laugh, "She might be able to help
me out of some of my difflculttes,
"And have yon got a great many
diffleultiece air?" Nanny Sounders,.
who lead' a large share of the eternal
mother in her, asked the question
in much the same tone of solicitude,
that stip might have en11p1oyetl to -
'ward Nally (.Toward,
Ian's eyebrows which formed a
Straight dark line to his sunburnt
face, drew themselves deem into a
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gather worried little frown,
"it's lire question of being a model
landlord, +whidlt bathes me," lie told
her, "I am assured by that rather
sadmy little man Jones that every-
thing on the esbate is all right, to
Which he iced refused to attend,'
"Is it that aMi', Jones rwho'ts troub-
ling you?" delcancle] Nanny con -
tem ptuously, "You must do what.
the olcl squire did, take .r firm line
with him. He's all right really;
but he needs' a strong hand,'
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