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lthough it hadbeen actually
BlairDevereuxs
uncle, not
Blairhimself,
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them of theirhome.
Courtenyhated
Blair just as
much as if he
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had been. Herfather would
neverbeanything
but a helpless
invalid---but
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at least, now,it looked as
if they mightget their
home back
again. At any
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rate, ifCourtenywas
prepared topay Blairs
priceAnd
if she could
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standtheconstant,
spitefulpresence
of Blairs
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secretary,Kate Lydard!
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CHAPTERONE'So
when do the
bulldozersmove
in?'Robin
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Lincolnflushed
angrily. 'Oh,for heaven's
sake,
Courtney!It
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won't be thatbad.''No?' his
sister queriedironically.
'Judging by
these-----'
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sheswept acontemptuous
hand over thepile of plans
and
folderslying
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between themon the living
room table it's about as
badas it could
be. You
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surely can'timagine the
local peoplearegoing to
stand for
anything like
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this? Why,they'll be up
in armsassoon as the
news gets
out''Well, I
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don't happento share your
opinion,'Robin
saiddefensive
ly, 'I admit it
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may takethem a while
toaccustomthe
mselves,
but...''A
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while?'Courtney's
echo wasderisive.
'When they
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thatHuntersCourtthe
house that'sbeen looked
on as the
manorall
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these yearshas been
bought up bya consortium
who wantto
turn it into a
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cheap countryclub?'Her
brother glaredat her. 'There
you go
again
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sittingin judgment.
Just becauseit's poor old
Monty!''Hardl
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descriptionor one that he
would appreciate.'Courtney
raised her
eyebrows.
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'Wealthymiddle-aged
Montywouldbe more to
the
point.'Robin's
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mouth turneddown
sullenly. 'Youreally dislike
him,don't
you?''I've
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hardly madeany secret of
it,' Courtneyreturned
crisply.
'Ithink he's a
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repulsivelittle creep,
and thatthisscheme
he'sdreamed
up is typical
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of him. Theonly thing I
can'tunderstandis
how you ever
got involved
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with him inthe first
place.''Oh no,you wouldn't
understand,'
Robin said
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savagely.'Youdon't like
success, doyou,
Courtney?
You're
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frightened ofit.
Everf
since we lost
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Court andFather had
thatsecondstroke
you decided it
was safer to
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settle forthisrabbit
hutch,and adull future
just ahead of
the breadline,
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rather thanmakeany
attempt torecoup what
we lost, but
I'm not
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prepared todothat, and
you don't likeit.'Courtney
sat down
wearily on
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one of theelderly chairs
whichflankedthe table.
'Rob, that's
not true!
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Do you thinkI
haven'tdreamed as you
have of
getting
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HuntersCourt back
somehow?But I've always
known it
wasn't
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possible.Even before
thatotherbusiness,
Father was
having a job
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"to keep itgoing.
Youknowthat. Houses
like Hunters
Court eat
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money, andtheirappetite
gets biggerevery
year.''Of
course I know
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it,' Robin saidshortly. 'Why
do you think1agreed to act
for the
consortium?
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Because it's away
probablytheonly way that
we'll ever get
Hunters
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Courtback.''But we
won't begetting it
back,'
Courtney
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argued. 'Itwillbelong to
them. Allyou'll be is
the
managera
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paidemployee.It
won't be thesame. It
can't.'Rob
shrugged.
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"Then it willhave to do,'
he said. 'I'mnotdogsbodyi
ng at
Carteret's for
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the rest of mylife. I'm sick
of beingtreated as a
charity case.
Sick of the
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whisperedremarks."Lin
coln?Lincoln? Any
relation to the
man
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whose partnerembezzled all
that money?"'Courtney
sighed
inwardly.
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Three yearsago Geoffrey
Devereuxhadbeen arrested
at Heathrow,
after a spot
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audit hadrevealeddiscr
epancies inthe handling
of clients'
money. He
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hadbeencharged
withembezzlemen
t, and bail had
been opposed
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whilefurtherenquiries
were made,but he had
died of a
heart
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attackwhileon remand,
leaving JamesLincoln, the
head of the
firm,facing
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ruin, and theknowledge
that his friendand partner
of many
years'
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standing hadbetrayed
him.When thefull amount
of the liability
that Devereux
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hadcreatedbecam
e known,James
Lincoln
himself had
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left him semi-paralyzedand
hardly able tospeak.Within
a matter of
weeks
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Courtney andRobin found
theirworldhad
turned upside
down.
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GeoffreyDevereux had
diedwithoutmakin
g any kind
of confession,
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or even a hintas to what
he'd donewith
thethousands
of pounds he
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had stolen.But it had to
berepaidsomeho
w, and
Hunters
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Court, whichhad been the
Lincolnfamily home for
generations,
was put
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on themarket.Robin'
s dream ofbecoming a
racing driver
died there and
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then,underthe necessity
of earningsome kind of
living, and
hereluctantly
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accepted hisgodfather's
offer ofemployment
in
hismerchant
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bank.Courtney, in the
middle of anA-level
course at her
expensiveboa
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rding school,abandoned
her plans foruniversity,
andthanked
heaven for
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the shorthandand typing
option shehadtaken
instead of the
needlework
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she loathed.She had to
leaveschoolbecause there
was no more
money
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forthcomingfor fees. The
cottage,offered to
them by the
owner of the
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neighbouringestate,
ColonelFitzHugh,
was a
godsend,
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even if it didseemlike the
rabbit hutchof Robin's
description
after
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thespaciousness of Hunters
Court. Andbecause the
Colonel was
anold friend
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of theirfather's, they
only paid aminimum
rental
forit.She said
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gently, 'Rob,mud sticks,
that'sinevitable,
but it
willpass. The
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job atCarteret's
may not bevery exciting,
but
it'ssecurity.
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Don't throw itaway for
some chancyscheme
putforward
by a man you
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hardlyknow.'Robin
lookedmutinous.
'We knew
Geoffrey
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Devereux,orthought we
did, and a lotof good it did
us. All you
have
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againstMontyis sheer
femaleprejudice.' Th
ere was a
certain
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amount ofjustice in that,
Courtneywasforced to
concede. She
knew no
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the
companies
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with which hewas
associated,butinstinct
told her that
he was a
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speculator,whose genial
mannerconcealed a
ruthless
determination
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to squeeze thelast pennyout
of any projectwith which he
was
connected,'
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andthethought of
such a mangetting his
hands on
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Courtfranklynauseated
her.It hadhurt when the
Hallorans had
bought the
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estate, buttheywere nice
people andhad looked
after it well.
Courtney
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wasdisappointed that they
too werebeing forced
to sell, bill
sheunderstoo
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d that MrsHalloran's
healthdemanded a
warmerwinter
climate than
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Britain had tooffer. She
had hopedthatsome
like- minded
people would
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come alongand buy
HuntersCourt, but the
economic
recession had
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made manypotentialbuye
rs rethink thewisdom of
acquiring a
country
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estate,however modest, and
Courtney hadcome
reluctantly to
realisethat
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when HuntersCourt was put
up forauction, it
wouldprobabl
y be bought
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by somecommercial
concern as asmallprivate
hotel,
perhaps, or a
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nursinghome.She had
not thenassociated
Montague
Pallister's
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arrival onthescene with
the sale ofHunters
Court, and
looking back,
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shesupposedshe had been
naive.At firstshe had
accepted
Robin's airy
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explanationthat he
hadmetMonty
through the
bank, and that
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he had givenhim
someadviceover
investments.
Robin
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certainlyseemed to
havemoremoney
at his disposal
these days,
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and Courtneywished
shecouldhave felt
more
gratefully
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disposedtowards
MontyPallister, but it was
impossible.
He was too
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well-dressed,tooopulent,
and the wayshe had seen
him looking
at herself
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whenhethought he
wasunobserved
made her feel
ill.Because he
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wasostensibly a
friend 'ofRobin's, he
often
visitedthe
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cottage,although it
was too smallfor him to
actually
staythere, to
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Courtney'srelief. Instead
he stayed atthe local
inn,which had
a good
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reputation forits food and
accommodation,and when
he was at the
cottage
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him round theplace, as if he
left atrail likea slug.But
there had
been no
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clues that hewanted Hunt
ersCourt,she th
ought bitterl
y that had
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been a well-kept secret,
eventhoughhe must have
had
architects
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and surveyors workingon
the propertybefore the es
tate had been
put on
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themarket ifthe volume
of materialthey had
produced wa
sanything to
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go by.She had
sat up thegreater part
of thepreviou
s night
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reading it,trying and
failing tocome to
termswith
what was
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planned. Thehouse itself
wouldsurvive, in
spiteof
internal
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alterations toextend the
dining room,and provide
atleast two
bars. Bui the
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stables andoutbuildings
wouldvanish,to be
rebuilt as
mews-style
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cottages to beoffered for
sale on atime-share basis.
The sunken
garden would
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wouldbetransforme
d into a nine-hole golf
course, and
the walled
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rosegardenwould turn
into tenniscourts.On
paper, it did
not sound so
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bad, butCourtney had
seenglossybrochures
advertising
other projects
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in whichMontyPalliste
r had beeninvolved. A
quick
financial retur
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n ratherthanquality
seemed to bethe
underlying
principle, and
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Courtneycould not bear to
think of thehouse which
had been her
homefor
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seventeenyears being
sacrificed tothat. It was a
foolishthough
tas if
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stones andmortar could
bleedbutlast night
asshe'd read
the reports
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angry. Thismorning,
she'd tried toexplain to
Robin how
she felt,
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butshe'dknown from
the start thatit was
useless. He
didn't wantto
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understand.All he knew
was that attomorrow's
auction he
would be
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awhile hecould pretend
that he wasbuying it
back for
himself,his
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birthright.The reality,
Courtneythought,
would be
verydifferent,
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but then asense of
reality wasnot Robin's
strongpoint,
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