Madonna Mary . xioiis about his sudden departure;and he was very sorry in his heart to have comeaway so^ and never to have told her. But hewas not sorry nor much troubled anyhow aboutthe much more important thing he was aboutto do. And Uncle Penrose, under the strange stimulusof his visitor^s eamestnesS;, addressed himself tothe task required of him, and TVTote to , too, thought first of writing to !Mrs. Ochter-lony; but, excellent business man as he was, hecould not do it; it went against his heart, if hehad a heart,—or, if not his heart, against somedigestive organ which served him in
Madonna Mary . xioiis about his sudden departure;and he was very sorry in his heart to have comeaway so^ and never to have told her. But hewas not sorry nor much troubled anyhow aboutthe much more important thing he was aboutto do. And Uncle Penrose, under the strange stimulusof his visitor^s eamestnesS;, addressed himself tothe task required of him, and TVTote to , too, thought first of writing to !Mrs. Ochter-lony; but, excellent business man as he was, hecould not do it; it went against his heart, if hehad a heart,—or, if not his heart, against somedigestive organ which served him instead of thatuseful but not indispensable part of the humanframe. But he did write to Hugh—that waseasier; and then Hugh had been confoundedsaucy/ and had rejected his ad^dce, not aboutthe Museum only, but in other respects. MrPenrose wrote the letter that very night whileWill was dreaming about his mothers lightand so the great wheel was set a-going, whichnone of them could then stop for ever. CHAPTER UGH had left the Cottage the dayafter WilFs departure. He hadgone to Earlston, where a gooddeal of business about the Museumand the estate awaited him; and he had goneoiF without any particular burden on his for WilFs flight from homc^ it was odd, nodoubt; but then Will himself was odd, and out-of-the-way acts were to be expected from Hugh, with careless liberality, had senthim the cheque, he dismissed the subject fromhis mind—at least, he thought of his youngerbrother only with amusement, wondering whathe could find to attract Iiim in Uncle Penrosesprosaic house^—trying to form an imaginationof Will wandering about the great Liverpooldocks, looking at the big ships, and all the noisy traffic; and Hugh lanjihcd within himself to think how very much all that was out of WilFs Madonna Mary. 97 way. No doubt he would come liome in a dayor two bored to death, and would loathe thevery name of Liverpool all his life for ^Iv. Ochterlony of Ear
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