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Simon Vicars was growing impatient. Already several months had elapsed since the eventful day on which the veiled man had taken him into his confidence, and still the Earl's courtship dragged on. Simon wanted to know exactly what species of revenge his master contemplated, and the part therein that he would play. He wanted to know, moreover, how that part would advantage himself, and other things; but the veiled man obstinately refused to gratify the little valet's curiosity, answering all Simon's attempts to draw him out with a curt direction to wait until Lord Cawthorne's engagement should be announced. Simon might have waited more contentedly if it were not that the condition of his master's health imposed unexpected trials on his patience.
The veiled man, as summer waned, fell ill, of a curious enfeebling sickness that had a marked effect upon both his body and his mind.