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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V TREMAYNE had gone to Scotland on business and did not come to Hendley for three weeks. By that time the acquaintance between the girl and boy had ripened into a firm comradeship. No one knew anything about it but Langley, and he looked upon it as a joke, and if he disapproved, well, that was nothing and made no difference. When Tremayne came down to Stapleton Court for the week-end, he took Julian there himself and introduced him to Iris. It was then for the first time that the boy showed his acting abilities, for his guardian never even suspected that the two had met before, and Langley, who was also present, did not even get a joke out of it. After that, within a few weeks, the summer vacation came, and Julian accompanied Tremayne abroad on his first real holiday. They went to Paris and Italy, and spent a week in Rome, where he was to begin his real work at Christmas. It was the end of September before he returned to Hendley, and his first thought was to rush down to the river, their usual meeting place, and see if Iris was there. She was not; and he returned to the vicarage in the deepest depression, to be blandly informed by Langley: "Miss Stapleton is away. She will be back on Monday." That time the shot struck home. The boy went very red and made no reply. Tremayne came down the following week and stayed again at Stapleton Court. His friend Jack Stapleton, an invalid at all times, had been ailing anew, tired with a long hot summer. It was impossible to move him to the sea, and Iris had been sent away to friends to give her a necessary change. There was little money in the Stapleton family, and old Mrs. Stapleton, Iris's grandmother, remained to look after her son herself. Tremayne would have done everything for them, and paid for everythi...
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