"
"And go to America," said Betty. "He could have avoided doing that--but
he cannot be called to account for his relations. If that is all--the
prejudice is NOT just."
"No, it is not," said Lord Dunholm, "and one feels rather awkward at
having shared it. You have set me thinking again, Miss Vanderpoel."
CHAPTER XXIX
THE THREAD OF G. SELDEN
The Shuttle having in its weaving caught up the thread of G. Selden's
rudimentary existence and drawn it, with the young man himself, across
the sea, used curiously the thread in question, in the forming of
the design of its huge web. As wool and coarse linen are sometimes
interwoven with rich silk for decorative or utilitarian purposes, so
perhaps was this previously unvalued material employed.
It was, indeed, an interesting truth that the young man, during his
convalescence, without his own knowledge, acted as a species of magnet
which drew together persons who might not easily otherwise have met.
Mr. Penzance and Mount Dunstan rode over to see him every few days, and
their visits naturally established relations with Stornham Court much
more intimate than could have formed themselves in the same length
of time under any of the ordinary circumstances of country life.
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