"Good for Milton Savage," laughed Knight. "Now we'll lie low, and see
what will happen."
Annesley thought that nothing would happen; but she was wrong. The next
morning a note came by hand for Mrs. Nelson Smith, brought by a footman
on a bicycle.
The note was from Lady Annesley-Seton.
CHAPTER X
BEGINNING OF THE SERIES
No man who had not known the seamy side of life could have guessed the
effect of Milton Savage's paragraph upon the minds of Lord and Lady
Annesley-Seton.
"I told you if you bet against me you would bet wrong," Knight said, when
the astonished girl handed the letter across the breakfast table. Even he
had hardly reckoned on such extreme cordiality. He had expected a bid for
acquaintanceship with the "millionaire" and his bride, but he had fancied
there would be a certain stiffness in the effort.
Lady Annesley-Seton had begun, "My dear Cousin," and her frank American
way was disarming. She wrote four pages of apology for herself and her
husband, explaining why they had neglected "looking up Mrs. Nelson Smith
when she was Miss Annesley Grayle." The letter went on:
I hadn't been married long when my husband read out of some newspaper
the notice of a clergyman's death, and mentioned that he was a cousin
by marriage whom he hadn't met since boyhood, although the clergyman's
living was in our county--somewhere off at the other end.
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