The Loving Spirit by Daphne Du Maurier

Author:Daphne Du Maurier [Maurier, Daphne Du]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Sagas, Action & Adventure, Family Life
ISBN: 9780316253550
Google: FmtlAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2013-12-15T22:00:00+00:00

‘Wherever’s Joe?’ worried Annie. ‘Nearly three o’clock an’ not back yet. I’ve a mind to clear away. Seen your father, boys?’

Charles and Albert shook their heads. ‘Can’t fathom out where he’s gone,’ said Albert, ‘lest he’s up on the cliffs, but then it ain’t like him to be late for his meals.’

‘He told me not to wait, but never said how long he’d be;’ Annie went to the window. ‘S’comin’ over misty, too, I’m in a way about him.’

Katherine looked up from her sewing.

‘P’r’aps he’s gone up to Aunt Lizzie at the farm,’ she suggested.

‘Scarcely likely.’

Five minutes later they heard a slow dragging footstep coming up the garden path.

‘Is that him now?’ asked Charlie.

‘’Tisn’t Joe’s step. He treads firmer than that, for all his poor sight,’ said Annie.

But the door opened and Joseph stood before them. Not the Joseph that any of them knew, but a man with tortured eyes. His hands were shaking. He leaned against the door, his hand to his side.

‘Joe,’ whispered Annie, ‘what’s come over you?’

The boys leapt to their feet.

‘Father, good God! . . . What’s happened?’

He waved them away with his hand.

Then he spoke slowly, weighing up his words with care.

‘I forbid you to ever breathe the name of Christopher again, here in this house or in Plyn, or amongst yourselves. He may die in the greatest poverty and distress before I ever lay a finger to help him. I swear before you all I will never look upon his face again. And if you wish to know the reason - look there - that’s why.’

He threw them the crumpled telegram, and without another word he went to his room above the porch, and locked the door.

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