And Claude--Oh! Miss Weston, have you
ever seen Claude?'
'No, but I have seen your eldest brother.'
'William? Why, he has been in Canada these three years. Where could
you have seen him?'
'At Brighton, about four years ago.'
'Ah! the year before he went. I remember that his regiment was
there. Well, it is curious that you should know him; and did you
ever hear of Harry, the brother that we lost?'
'I remember Captain Mohun's being called away to Oxford by his
illness,' said Alethea.
'Ah, yes! William was the only one of us who was with him, even papa
was not there. His illness was so short.'
'Yes,' said Alethea, 'I think it was on a Tuesday that Captain Mohun
left Brighton, and we saw his death in the paper on Saturday.'
'William only arrived the evening that he died. Papa was gone to
Ireland to see about Cousin Rotherwood's property. Robert, not
knowing that, wrote to him at Beechcroft; Eleanor forwarded the
letter without opening it, and so we knew nothing till Robert came to
tell us that all was over.'
'Without any preparation?'
'With none. Harry had left home about ten days before, quite well,
and looking so handsome.
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