The valet had shrunk into the dark corner of the room, and had remained so motionless that we had forgotten his presence until, upon this appeal from his former master, he took a step forward into the light, turning his sallow face in our direction. His usually impassive features were in a state of painful agitation1, and he spoke2 slowly and with hesitation3, as though his trembling lips could hardly frame the words. And yet, so strong is habit, that, even in this extremity4 of emotion he assumed the deferential5 air of the high-class valet, and his sentences formed themselves in the sonorous6 fashion which had struck my attention upon that first day when the curricle of my uncle had stopped outside my father’s door.
“My Lady Avon and gentlemen,” said he, “if I have sinned in this matter, and I freely confess that I have done so, I only know one way in which I can atone7 for it, and that is by making the full and complete confession8 which my noble master, Lord Avon, has demanded. I assure you, then, that what I am about to tell you, surprising as it may seem, is the absolute and undeniable truth concerning the mysterious death of Captain Barrington.
“It may seem impossible to you that one in my humble9 walk of life should bear a deadly and implacable hatred10 against a man in the position of Captain Barrington. You think that the gulf11 between is too wide. I can tell you, gentlemen, that the gulf which can be bridged by unlawful love can be spanned also by an unlawful hatred, and that upon the day when this young man stole from me all that made my life worth living, I vowed12 to Heaven that I should take from him that foul13 life of his, though the deed would cover but the tiniest fraction of the debt which he owed me. I see that you look askance at me, Sir Charles Tregellis, but you should pray to God, sir, that you may never have the chance of finding out what you would yourself be capable of in the same position.”
It was a wonder to all of us to see this man’s fiery14 nature breaking suddenly through the artificial constraints15 with which he held it in check. His short dark hair seemed to bristle16 upwards17, his eyes glowed with the intensity18 of his passion, and his face expressed a malignity19 of hatred which neither the death of his enemy nor the lapse20 of years could mitigate21. The demure22 servant was gone, and there stood in his place a deep and dangerous man, one who might be an ardent23 lover or a most vindictive24 foe25.
“We were about to be married, she and I, when some black chance threw him across our path. I do not know by what base deceptions26 he lured27 her away from me. I have heard that she was only one of many, and that he was an adept28 at the art. It was done before ever I knew the danger, and she was left with her broken heart and her ruined life to return to that home into which she had brought disgrace and misery29. I only saw her once. She told me that her seducer30 had burst out a-laughing when she had reproached him for his perfidy31, and I swore to her that his heart’s blood should pay me for that laugh.
“I was a valet at the time, but I was not yet in the service of Lord Avon. I applied32 for and gained that position with the one idea that it might give me an opportunity of settling my accounts with his younger brother. And yet my chance was a terribly long time coming, for many months had passed before the visit to Cliffe Royal gave me the opportunity which I longed for by day and dreamed of by night. When it did come, however, it came in a fashion which was more favourable33 to my plans than anything that I had ever ventured to hope for.
“Lord Avon was of opinion that no one but himself knew of the secret passages in Cliffe Royal. In this he was mistaken. I knew of them—or, at least, I knew enough of them to serve my purpose. I need not tell you how, one day, when preparing the chambers34 for the guests, an accidental pressure upon part of the fittings caused a panel to gape35 in the woodwork, and showed me a narrow opening in the wall. Making my way down this, I found that another panel led into a larger bedroom beyond. That was all I knew, but it was all that was needed for my purpose. The disposal of the rooms had been left in my hands, and I arranged that Captain Barrington should sleep in the larger and I in the smaller. I could come upon him when I wished, and no one would be the wiser.
“And then he arrived. How can I describe to you the fever of impatience36 in which I lived until the moment should come for which I had waited and planned. For a night and a day they gambled, and for a night and a day I counted the minutes which brought me nearer to my man. They might ring for fresh wine at what hour they liked, they always found me waiting and ready, so that this young captain hiccoughed out that I was the model of all valets. My master advised me to go to bed. He had noticed my flushed cheek and my bright eyes, and he set me down as being in a fever. So I was, but it was a fever which only one medicine could assuage37.
“Then at last, very early in the morning, I heard them push back their chairs, and I knew that their game had at last come to an end. When I entered the room to receive my orders, I found that Captain Barrington had already stumbled off to bed. The others had also retired38, and my master was sitting alone at the table, with his empty bottle and the scattered39 cards in front of him. He ordered me angrily to my room, and this time I obeyed him.
“My first care was to provide myself with a weapon. I knew that if I were face to face with him I could tear his throat out, but I must so arrange that the fashion of his death should be a noiseless one. There was a hunting trophy40 in the hall, and from it I took a straight heavy knife which I sharpened upon my boot. Then I stole to my room, and sat waiting upon the side of my bed. I had made up my mind what I should do. There would be little satisfaction in killing41 him if he was not to know whose hand had struck the blow, or which of his sins it came to avenge42. Could I but bind43 him and gag him in his drunken sleep, then a prick44 or two of my dagger45 would arouse him to listen to what I had to say to him. I pictured the look in his eyes as the haze46 of sleep cleared slowly away from them, the look of anger turning suddenly to stark47 horror as he understood who I was and what I had come for. It would be the supreme48 moment of my life.
“I waited as it seemed to me for at least an hour; but I had no watch, and my impatience was such that I dare say it really was little more than a quarter of that time. Then I rose, removed my shoes, took my knife, and having opened the panel, slipped silently through. It was not more than thirty feet that I had to go, but I went inch by inch, for the old rotten boards snapped like breaking twigs49 if a sudden weight was placed upon them. It was, of course, pitch dark, and very, very slowly I felt my way along. At last I saw a yellow seam of light glimmering50 in front of me, and I knew that it came from the other panel. I was too soon, then, since he had not extinguished his candles. I had waited many months, and I could afford to wait another hour, for I did not wish to do anything precipitately51 or in a hurry.
“It was very necessary to move silently now, since I was within a few feet of my man, with only the thin wooden partition between. Age had warped52 and cracked the boards, so that when I had at last very stealthily crept my way as far as the sliding-panel, I found that I could, without any difficulty, see into the room. Captain Barrington was standing53 by the dressing-table with his coat and vest off. A large pile of sovereigns, and several slips of paper were lying before him, and he was counting over his gambling54 gains. His face was flushed, and he was heavy from want of sleep and from wine. It rejoiced me to see it, for it meant that his slumber56 would be deep, and that all would be made easy for me.
“I was still watching him, when of a sudden I saw him start, and a terrible expression come upon his face. For an instant my heart stood still, for I feared that he had in some way divined my presence. And then I heard the voice of my master within. I could not see the door by which he had entered, nor could I see him where he stood, but I heard all that he had to say. As I watched the captain’s face flush fiery-red, and then turn to a livid white as he listened to those bitter words which told him of his infamy57, my revenge was sweeter—far sweeter—than my most pleasant dreams had ever pictured it. I saw my master approach the dressing-table, hold the papers in the flame of the candle, throw their charred58 ashes into the grate, and sweep the golden pieces into a small brown canvas bag. Then, as he turned to leave the room, the captain seized him by the wrist, imploring59 him, by the memory of their mother, to have mercy upon him; and I loved my master as I saw him drag his sleeve from the grasp of the clutching fingers, and leave the stricken wretch60 grovelling61 upon the floor.
“And now I was left with a difficult point to settle, for it was hard for me to say whether it was better that I should do that which I had come for, or whether, by holding this man’s guilty secret, I might not have in my hand a keener and more deadly weapon than my master’s hunting-knife. I was sure that Lord Avon could not and would not expose him. I knew your sense of family pride too well, my lord, and I was certain that his secret was safe in your hands. But I both could and would; and then, when his life had been blasted, and he had been hounded from his regiment62 and from his clubs, it would be time, perhaps, for me to deal in some other way with him.”
“Ambrose, you are a black villain,” said my uncle.
“We all have our own feelings, Sir Charles; and you will permit me to say that a serving-man may resent an injury as much as a gentleman, though the redress63 of the duel64 is denied to him. But I am telling you frankly65, at Lord Avon’s request, all that I thought and did upon that night, and I shall continue to do so, even if I am not fortunate enough to win your approval.
“When Lord Avon had left him, the captain remained for some time in a kneeling attitude, with his face sunk upon a chair. Then he rose, and paced slowly up and down the room, his chin sunk upon his breast. Every now and then he would pluck at his hair, or shake his clenched66 hands in the air; and I saw the moisture glisten67 upon his brow. For a time I lost sight of him, and I heard him opening drawer after drawer, as though he were in search of something. Then he stood over by his dressing-table again, with his back turned to me. His head was thrown a little back, and he had both hands up to the collar of his shirt, as though he were striving to undo68 it. And then there was a gush69 as if a ewer70 had been upset, and down he sank upon the ground, with his head in the corner, twisted round at so strange an angle to his shoulders that one glimpse of it told me that my man was slipping swiftly from the clutch in which I had fancied that I held him. I slid my panel, and was in the room in an instant. His eyelids71 still quivered, and it seemed to me, as my gaze met his glazing72 eyes, that I could read both recognition and surprise in them. I laid my knife upon the floor, and I stretched myself out beside him, that I might whisper in his ear one or two little things of which I wished to remind him; but even as I did so, he gave a gasp73 and was gone.
“It is singular that I, who had never feared him in life, should be frightened at him now, and yet when I looked at him, and saw that all was motionless save the creeping stain upon the carpet, I was seized with a sudden foolish spasm74 of terror, and, catching75 up my knife, I fled swiftly and silently back to my own room, closing the panels behind me. It was only when I had reached it that I found that in my mad haste I had carried away, not the hunting-knife which I had taken with me, but the bloody76 razor which had dropped from the dead man’s hand. This I concealed78 where no one has ever discovered it; but my fears would not allow me to go back for the other, as I might perhaps have done, had I foreseen how terribly its presence might tell against my master. And that, Lady Avon and gentlemen, is an exact and honest account of how Captain Barrington came by his end.”
“And how was it,” asked my uncle, angrily, “that you have allowed an innocent man to be persecuted79 all these years, when a word from you might have saved him?”
“Because I had every reason to believe, Sir Charles, that that would be most unwelcome to Lord Avon. How could I tell all this without revealing the family scandal which he was so anxious to conceal77? I confess that at the beginning I did not tell him what I had seen, and my excuse must be that he disappeared before I had time to determine what I should do. For many a year, however—ever since I have been in your service, Sir Charles—my conscience tormented80 me, and I swore that if ever I should find my old master, I should reveal everything to him. The chance of my overhearing a story told by young Mr. Stone here, which showed me that some one was using the secret chambers of Cliffe Royal, convinced me that Lord Avon was in hiding there, and I lost no time in seeking him out and offering to do him all the justice in my power.”
“What he says is true,” said his master; “but it would have been strange indeed if I had hesitated to sacrifice a frail81 life and failing health in a cause for which I freely surrendered all that youth had to offer. But new considerations have at last compelled me to alter my resolution. My son, through ignorance of his true position, was drifting into a course of life which accorded with his strength and spirit, but not with the traditions of his house. Again, I reflected that many of those who knew my brother had passed away, that all the facts need not come out, and that my death whilst under the suspicion of such a crime would cast a deeper stain upon our name than the sin which he had so terribly expiated82. For these reasons—”
The tramp of several heavy footsteps reverberating83 through the old house broke in suddenly upon Lord Avon’s words. His wan55 face turned even a shade greyer as he heard it, and he looked piteously to his wife and son.
“They will arrest me!” he cried. “I must submit to the degradation84 of an arrest.”
“This way, Sir James; this way,” said the harsh tones of Sir Lothian Hume from without.
“I do not need to be shown the way in a house where I have drunk many a bottle of good claret,” cried a deep voice in reply; and there in the doorway85 stood the broad figure of Squire86 Ovington in his buckskins and top-boots, a riding-crop in his hand. Sir Lothian Hume was at his elbow, and I saw the faces of two country constables87 peeping over his shoulders.
“Lord Avon,” said the squire, “as a magistrate88 of the county of Sussex, it is my duty to tell you that a warrant is held against you for the wilful89 murder of your brother, Captain Barrington, in the year 1786.”
“I am ready to answer the charge.”
“This I tell you as a magistrate. But as a man, and the Squire of Rougham Grange, I’m right glad to see you, Ned, and here’s my hand on it, and never will I believe that a good Tory like yourself, and a man who could show his horse’s tail to any field in the whole Down county, would ever be capable of so vile90 an act.”
“You do me justice, James,” said Lord Avon, clasping the broad, brown hand which the country squire had held out to him. “I am as innocent as you are; and I can prove it.”
“Damned glad I am to hear it, Ned! That is to say, Lord Avon, that any defence which you may have to make will be decided91 upon by your peers and by the laws of your country.”
“Until which time,” added Sir Lothian Hume, “a stout92 door and a good lock will be the best guarantee that Lord Avon will be there when called for.”
The squire’s weather-stained face flushed to a deeper red as he turned upon the Londoner.
“Are you the magistrate of a county, sir?”
“I have not the honour, Sir James.”
“Then how dare you advise a man who has sat on the bench for nigh twenty years! When I am in doubt, sir, the law provides me with a clerk with whom I may confer, and I ask no other assistance.”
“You take too high a tone in this matter, Sir James. I am not accustomed to be taken to task so sharply.”
“Nor am I accustomed, sir, to be interfered93 with in my official duties. I speak as a magistrate, Sir Lothian, but I am always ready to sustain my opinions as a man.”
Sir Lothian bowed.
“You will allow me to observe, sir, that I have personal interests of the highest importance involved in this matter, I have every reason to believe that there is a conspiracy94 afoot which will affect my position as heir to Lord Avon’s titles and estates. I desire his safe custody95 in order that this matter may be cleared up, and I call upon you, as a magistrate, to execute your warrant.”
“Plague take it, Ned!” cried the squire, “I would that my clerk Johnson were here, for I would deal as kindly96 by you as the law allows; and yet I am, as you hear, called upon to secure your person.”
“Permit me to suggest, sir,” said my uncle, “that so long as he is under the personal supervision97 of the magistrate, he may be said to be under the care of the law, and that this condition will be fulfilled if he is under the roof of Rougham Grange.”
“Nothing could be better,” cried the squire, heartily98. “You will stay with me, Ned, until this matter blows over. In other words, Lord Avon, I make myself responsible, as the representative of the law, that you are held in safe custody until your person may be required of me.”
“Yours is a true heart, James.”
“Tut, tut! it is the due process of the law. I trust, Sir Lothian Hume, that you find nothing to object to in it?”
Sir Lothian shrugged99 his shoulders, and looked blackly at the magistrate. Then he turned to my uncle.
“There is a small matter still open between us,” said he. “Would you kindly give me the name of a friend? Mr. Corcoran, who is outside in my barouche, would act for me, and we might meet to-morrow morning.”
“With pleasure,” answered my uncle. “I dare say your father would act for me, nephew? Your friend may call upon Lieutenant100 Stone, of Friar’s Oak, and the sooner the better.”
And so this strange conference ended. As for me, I had sprung to the side of the old friend of my boyhood, and was trying to tell him my joy at his good fortune, and listening to his assurance that nothing that could ever befall him could weaken the love that he bore me. My uncle touched me on the shoulder, and we were about to leave, when Ambrose, whose bronze mask had been drawn101 down once more over his fiery passions, came demurely102 towards him.
“You are right, Ambrose,” my uncle answered. “Lorimer does his best, but I have never been able to fill your place.”
“I should be proud to serve you, sir; but you must acknowledge that Lord Avon has the prior claim. If he will release me—”
“You may go, Ambrose; you may go!” cried Lord Avon. “You are an excellent servant, but your presence has become painful to me.”
“Thank you, Ned,” said my uncle. “But you must not leave me so suddenly again, Ambrose.”
“Permit me to explain the reason, sir. I had determined104 to give you notice when we reached Brighton; but as we drove from the village that day, I caught a glimpse of a lady passing in a phaeton between whom and Lord Avon I was well aware there was a close intimacy105, although I was not certain that she was actually his wife. Her presence there confirmed me in my opinion that he was in hiding at Cliffe Royal, and I dropped from your curricle and followed her at once, in order to lay the matter before her, and explain how very necessary it was that Lord Avon should see me.”
“Well, I forgive you for your desertion, Ambrose,” said my uncle; “and,” he added, “I should be vastly obliged to you if you would re-arrange my tie.”
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