Page 130 - Fairbrass

Nevertheless, you will do right to
come/ said the lawyer.

* If you tell me so, I am content to
believe It. Besides, to tell the truth, T have

been strangely moved to-day, and I have an
odd desire to see the old place once again

before it passes into the hands of strangers
and Is closed to me for ever/

( Very well. Then we had better start
at once. The carriage is waiting for us.h

But upon this point the father showed
his old determination. He would have

nothing more to do with that hideous
mourning coach ; he would walk with Fair-
brass. So the two were by professional

hands deftly stripped of their trappings of

woe, and in charge of these the lawyer sank
back on the musty black cushions and drove
off alone.

The father had an odd self-tormenting
desire to take that walk to-day. Hand-in-

hand forty years ago, leaving his young
mother in her grave, he and his father had

walked over the same ground, and as the