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Contents
1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication
5. Contents at a Glance
6. Contents
7. Acknowledgments
8. Part I Understanding Business Intelligence and Power BI

1. Chapter 1 How to Use This Book

1. The Tool Chest Called Power BI

1. The BI Process
2. Power BI Parts and Pieces

2. The Right Tool(s) for the Job

1. Consuming Power BI Reports

2. Power BI as a Data Visualization Tool
3. Power BI as a Modeling Tool
4. Power BI as a Data Warehouse/Data Mart

3. Where to Find What You Need

1. Obtaining Power BI Desktop Software

2. Sample Code and Supporting Materials
3. Information on Power BI New Features and
Enhancements

4. How to Succeed at Self-Service Analytics

 2. Chapter 2 Successful Self-Service Analytics

1. What Is Business Intelligence?

1. Defining KPIs

2. Is Your Organization Ready for BI?

1. Desire
2. Realistic Expectations
3. Ongoing Care and Feeding
4. Well-Defined KPIs
5. Actionable KPIs
6. Reliable Sources of Data

3. Implementation: Best Practices

1. Take an Iterative Implementation Approach

2. Utilize a Data Warehouse/Data Mart
3. Cleanse and Validate During Data Gathering
4. Create User-Friendly Data Models
5. Publish Latency
6. Provide Training and Support
7. Use the Right Tool for the Job
8. Establish Standards and Limits

4. Successfully Using Power BI

9. Part II Interacting with Power BI

1. Chapter 3 Power BI Architecture

1. The Power BI Architecture

1. Power BI Desktop
2. The Power BI Service
3. The Power BI Report Server
4. The Power BI Mobile App
 2. Power BI Desktop Optimizations
3. Power BI Updates
4. Microsoft On-premises Data Gateway
5. What Does the Data Have to Say?

2. Chapter 4 Using Power BI Visualizations

1. Power BI Desktop

1. Obtaining What You Need

2. Opening the Report/Preparing the Environment

2. Interacting with a Power BI Report

1. Working with a Single Report Item

2. Interacting with Multiple Report Items

3. Changing the Data with Slicers and Filters

1. Slicers
2. Filters

4. Navigating Power BI Reports

1. Drill Down and Drillthrough

2. Buttons
3. Bookmarks
4. Additional Data Interactions

5. A Cloudy Forecast

3. Chapter 5 Using the Power BI Service (PowerBI.com)

1. PowerBI.com

1. The Organization of PowerBI.com

2. Connecting to PowerBI.com
3. The Navigation Pane
 2. Workspaces

1. Reports
2. Dashboards
3. Workbooks
4. Datasets
5. Dataflows

3. Additional Areas and Items Within PowerBI.com

1. Additional Navigation Pane Items

2. Additional Buttons

4. How It All Gets Made

10. Part III Creating Visualizations

1. Chapter 6 Basic Data Visualizations

1. Learn By Doing

1. Starting Point

2. Basic Visualizations

1. Maximum Miniatures Manufacturing

2. Our First Report Page
3. Text-based Visualizations
4. Graphical Visualizations

3. Interactivity

1. Slicers
2. Filters
3. Drillthrough

4. Geographic Visualizations
 1. Bing Map Visualizations
2. Shape Map Visualizations
3. GIS Map Visualizations

5. Other Visual Elements

1. Text Boxes, Images, and Shapes

6. Fancy Formatting

2. Chapter 7 Visualization Formatting

1. The Visualization Format Tab

1. Report Page
2. All Items
3. Charts
4. Additional Chart Functional Groups
5. Table and Matrix
6. Card and Multi-row Card
7. Pie Chart, Donut Chart, Treemap, and Maps
8. Funnel
9. Gauge
10. KPI
11. Slicer
12. Button, Shape, and Image

2. Advanced Formatting Dialog Boxes

1. Conditional Formatting Advanced Controls

Dialog Box
2. Data Bars Advanced Controls Dialog Box

3. The Visualization Analytics Tab

1. Types of Analytics Lines

2. Controls for Editing Analytics Lines
 4. Themes
5. New Ways to Interact and Visualize

3. Chapter 8 Advanced Interactivity and Custom Visualizations

1. Controlling Interactivity

1. Controlling Interactions
2. Synchronizing Slicers

2. Creating Interactivity

1. Custom Tooltips
2. Bookmarks
3. Selection Pane
4. Buttons

3. Customizing Visualizations

1. Custom Visualizations from the Marketplace

2. Custom Visualizations from R and Python
3. Creating a Custom Shape Map

4. Moving on to Modeling

11. Part IV Building Data Models

1. Chapter 9 Loading Data with Power BI

1. Gathering Data

1. Get Data
2. Power BI Connection Types

2. Transforming Data During the Data Import

1. The Power BI Query Editor

2. A New Sample: World Population
 3. Repeating and Changing the Data Import

1. Refreshing Data in Power BI Desktop

2. Modifying Queries
3. The Advanced Editor and the Power Query
Formula Language
4. Data Source Permissions

4. Relationships and Intermediate Tables

1. Creating an Intermediate Table from a Data

Source
2. Manually Creating Intermediate Tables

5. Parameters

1. Putting Parameters to Use

6. Transformers

2. Chapter 10 Power BI Transformation Reference

1. Transformation Reference

1. Informational-Only Transformations
2. Transformations on the Query Editor Home
Tab
3. Transformations on the Query Editor
Transform Tab
4. Transformations on the Query Editor Add
Column Tab

2. Model Building

3. Chapter 11 Creating a Tabular Model in Power BI

1. Relationships
 1. Creating Relationships

2. User-Friendly Models

1. Hiding Columns from the End User

2. Column Names and Descriptions

3. Formatting and Categories

1. One Final Relationship

2. Data Categories
3. Hierarchies, Groups, and Bins

4. Measuring Up

4. Chapter 12 Measures and Calculated Columns

1. Calculated Columns

1. Creating a Calculated Column

2. The Context for Calculated Columns

2. Measures

1. Default Summarization
2. Explicit Measures
3. Measures and Context
4. Defining Context Within a Measure
5. Time Analytics
6. Row-by-Row Calculations
7. The FILTER() Function

3. DAX Variables

1. Declaring DAX Variables and Assigning a

Value
2. Using a DAX Variable
3. Using Return in a Measure
 4. Everything DAX

5. Chapter 13 DAX Language Reference

1. DAX Operators

1. Comparison Operators
2. Arithmetic Operators
3. Text Operator
4. Logical Operators

2. DAX Functions

1. Modifying Context
2. Table-Valued Functions
3. Aggregate Functions
4. DAX Functions for Time Analytics
5. Parent/Child Relationships
6. Additional DAX Functions

3. Additional Modeling

6. Chapter 14 Additional Power BI Desktop Features

1. Additional Power BI Data Model Features

1. Synonyms
2. Linguistic Schemas
3. Display Folder
4. What-If Parameters
5. Roles

2. Performance Analyzer

1. Capturing Performance Information

2. Viewing the DAX Query

3. Import and Export

 1. Excel Workbook Content
2. Power BI Templates

4. Spreading the Word

12. Part V Sharing Content

1. Chapter 15 Sharing Content on the Power BI Service

(PowerBI.com)

1. The Power BI Service and Data Refresh

1. The On-premises Data Gateway

2. The On-premises Data Gateway Architecture
3. Installing the On-premises Data Gateway
4. Managing the On-premises Data Gateway
5. Managing the On-premises Data Gateway
(personal mode)
6. Setting a Dataset for Scheduled Refresh

2. The Power BI Service and Sharing

1. Using Share
2. Using Content Packs
3. Using Apps

3. The Power BI Service and Row-Level Security

1. Assigning Users to a Custom Security Role

4. Another Way to Share

2. Chapter 16 Saving to the Power BI Report Server

1. Power BI Service and Power BI Report Server

Comparison

1. Versions
 2. Power BI Desktop Optimizations

2. Installing Power BI Report Server

1. The Power BI Report Server Installation

Executable
2. The Report Server Configuration Manager

3. The Report Catalog

1. Folders
2. The Web Portal
3. Saving a Report to the Power BI Report Server

4. Security

1. Folder and Report Security

2. Row-Level Security

5. Branding the Power BI Report Server

1. Modifying the Site Name

2. Creating a Brand Package

6. Powered Up and Ready to Go

13. Index

Guide
1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Data Analysis with Microsoft Power BI
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room—thank you very much. I thought, however, that you might
possibly wish to see me immediately, and so I am here, at all events,
as you soldiers say, to report myself," said Varbarriere, with his
unctuous politeness.
"Yes, it is better, I'd rather have it now," answered the General in a
less polite and more literal way. "A chair, sir;" and he placed one
before the fire, which he poked into a blaze. "I—I hope you are not
fatigued,"—here the door shut, and the waiter was gone; "and I
want to hear, sir, if you please, the—the meaning of the letter you
favoured me with."
The General by this time had it in his hand open, and tendered it, I
suppose for identification, to M. Varbarriere, who, however, politely
waved it back.
"I quite felt the responsibility I took upon myself when I wrote as I
did. That responsibility of course I accept; and I have come all this
way, sir, for no other purpose than to justify my expressions, and to
invite you to bring them to the test."
"Of course, sir. Thank you," said the General.
Varbarriere had felt a momentary qualm about this particular branch
of the business which he had cut out for himself. When he wrote to
General Lennox he was morally certain of the existence of a secret
passage into that green room, and also of the relations which he had
for some time suspected between Sir Jekyl and his fair guest. On the
whole it was not a bad coup to provide, by means of the old
General's jealousy, such literal proof as he still required of the
concealed entrance, through which so much villany had been
accomplished—and so his letter—and now its consequences—about
which it was too late to think.
General Lennox, standing by the table, with one candle on the
chimneypiece and his glasses to his eyes, read aloud, with some
little stumbling, these words from the letter of Monsieur Varbarriere:
—
"The reason of my so doing will be obvious when I say that I have
certain circumstances to lay before you which nearly affect your
honour. I decline making any detailed statement by letter; nor will I
explain my meaning at Marlowe Manor. But if, without fracas, you
will give me a private meeting, at any place between this and
London, I will make it my business to see you, when I shall satisfy
you that I have not made this request without the gravest reasons."
"Those are the passages, sir, on which you are so good as to offer
me an explanation; and first, there's the phrase, you know, 'certain
circumstances to lay before you which nearly affect your honour;'
that's a word, you know, sir, that a fellow feels in a way—in a way
that can't be triffled with."
"Certainly. Put your question, General Lennox, how you please,"
answered Varbarriere, with a grave bow.
"Well, how—how—exactly—I'll—I will put my question. I'd like to
know, sir, in what relation—in—yes—in what relation, as a soldier, sir,
or as a gentleman, sir, or as—what?"
"I am very much concerned to say, sir, that it is in the very nearest
and most sacred interest, sir—as a husband."
General Lennox had sat down by this time, and was gazing with a
frank stern stare full into the dark countenance of his visitor; and in
reply he made two short little nods, clearing his voice, and lowering
his eyes to the table.
It was a very trifling way of taking it. But Varbarriere saw his face
flush fiercely up to the very roots of his silver hair, and he fancied he
could see the vessels throbbing in his temples.
"I—very good, sir—thank you," said the General, looking up fiercely
and shaking his ears, but speaking in a calm tone.
"Go on, pray—let me know—I say—in God's name, don't keep me."
"Now, sir, I'll tell it to you briefly—I'll afterwards go into whatever
proof you desire. I have reason, I deeply regret it, to believe—in fact
to know—that an immoral intimacy exists between Sir Jekyl Marlowe
and Lady Jane Lennox."
"It's a lie, sir!" screamed the General—"a damned lie, sir—a damned
lie, sir—a damned lie, sir."
His gouty claw was advanced trembling as if to clutch the muffler
that was folded about Monsieur Varbarriere's throat, but he dropped
back in his seat again shaking, and ran his fingers through his white
hair several times. There was a silence which even M. Varbarriere
did not like.
Varbarriere was not the least offended at his violence. He knew quite
well that the General did not understand what he said, or mean, or
remember it—that it was only the wild protest of agony. For the first
time he felt a compunction about that old foozle, who had hitherto
somehow counted for nothing in the game he was playing, and he
saw him, years after, as he had shrieked at him that night, with his
claw stretched towards his throat, ludicrous, and also terrible.
"My God! sir," cried the old man, with a quaver that sounded like a
laugh, "do you tell me so?"
"It's true, sir," said Varbarriere.
"Now, sir, I'll not interrupt you—tell all, pray—hide nothing," said the
General.
"I was, sir, accidentally witness to a conversation which is capable of
no other interpretation; and I have legal proof of the existence of a
secret door, connecting the apartment which has been assigned to
you, at Marlowe, with Sir Jekyl's room."
"The damned villain! What a fool," and then very fiercely he
suddenly added, "You can prove all this, sir? I hope you can."
"All this, and more, sir. I suspect, sir, there will hardly be an attempt
to deny it."
"Oh, sir, it's terrible; but I was such a fool. I had no business—I
deserve it all. Who'd have imagined such villains? But, d—— me, sir,
I can't believe it."
There was a tone of anguish in the old man's voice which made
even his grotesque and feeble talk terrible.
"I say there can't be such devils on earth;" and then he broke into
an incoherent story of all his trust and love, and all that Jane owed
him, and of her nature which was frank and generous, and how she
never hid a thought from him—open as heaven, sir. What business
was it of his, d—— him! What did he mean by trying to set a man
against his wife? No one but a scoundrel ever did it.
Varbarriere stood erect.
"You may submit how you like, sir, to your fate; but you shan't insult
me, sir, without answering it. My note left it optional to you to exact
my information or to remain in the darkness, which it seems you
prefer. If you wish it, I'll make my bow—it's nothing to me, but two
can play at that game. I've fought perhaps oftener than you, and
you shan't bully me."
"I suppose you're right, sir—don't go, pray—I think I'm half mad,
sir," said General Lennox, despairingly.
"Sir, I make allowance—I forgive your language, but if you want to
talk to me, it must be with proper respect. I'm as good a gentleman
as you; my statement is, of course, strictly true, and if you please
you can test it."
 CHAPTER IX.
Guy Deverell at Slowton.
"Come, sir, I have a right to know it—have you not an object in
fooling me?" said General Lennox, relapsing all on a sudden into his
ferocious vein.
"In telling you the truth, sir, I have an object, perhaps—but seeing
that it is the truth, and concerns you so nearly, you need not trouble
yourself about my object," answered Varbarriere, with more self-
command than was to have been expected.
"I will test it, sir. I will try you," said the General, sternly. "By — —
I'll sift it to the bottom."
"So you ought, sir; that's what I mean to help you to," said
Varbarriere.
"How, sir?—say how, and by Heaven, sir, I'll shoot him like a dog."
"The way to do it I've considered. I shall place you probably in
possession of such proof as will thoroughly convince you."
"Thank you, sir, go on."
"I shall be at Marlowe to-morrow—you must arrive late—on no
account earlier than half-past twelve. I will arrange to have you
admitted by the glass door—through the conservatory. Don't bring
your vehicle beyond the bridge, and leave your luggage at the
Marlowe Arms. The object, sir, is this," said Varbarriere, with
deliberate emphasis, observing that the General's grim countenance
did not look as apprehensive as he wished, "that your arrival shall be
unsuspected. No one must know anything of it except myself and
another, until you shall have reached your room. Do you see?"
"Thanks, sir—yes," answered the General, looking as unsatisfactorily
as before.
"There are two recesses with shelves—one to the right, the other to
the left of the bed's head as you look from the door. The secret
entrance I have mentioned lies through that at the right. You must
not permit any alarm which may be intended to reach Sir Jekyl.
Secure the door, and do you sit up and watch. There's a way of
securing the secret door from the inside—which I'll explain—that
would prevent his entrance—don't allow it. The whole—pardon me,
sir—intrigue will in that case be disclosed without the possibility of a
prevarication. You have followed me, I hope, distinctly."
"I—I'm a little flurried, I believe, sir; I have to apologise. I'll ask you,
by-and-by, to repeat it. I think I should like to be alone, sir. She
wrote me a letter, sir—I wish I had died when I got it."
When Varbarriere looked at him, he saw that the old East Indian was
crying.
"Sir, I grieve with you," said Varbarriere, funereally. "You can
command my presence whenever you please to send for me. I shall
remain in this house. It will be absolutely necessary, of course, that
you should see me again."
"Thank you, sir. I know—I'm sure you mean kindly—but God only
knows all it is."
He had shaken his hand very affectionately, without any meaning—
without knowing that he had done so.
Varbarriere said—
"Don't give way, sir, too much. If there is this sort of misfortune, it is
much better discovered—much better. You'll think so just now. You'll
view it quite differently in the morning. Call for me the moment you
want me—farewell, sir."
So Varbarriere was conducted to his bed-room, and made, beside his
toilet, conscientious inquiries about his late dinner, which was in an
advanced state of preparation; and when he went down to partake
of it, he had wonderfully recovered the interview with General
Lennox. Notwithstanding, however, he drank two glasses of sherry,
contrary to gastronomic laws, before beginning. Then, however, he
made, even for him, a very good dinner.
He could not help wondering what a prodigious fuss the poor old
fogey made about this little affair. He could not enter the least into
his state of mind. She was a fine woman, no doubt; but there were
others—no stint—and he had been married quite long enough to
sober and acquire an appetite for liberty.
What was the matter with the old fellow? But that it was insufferably
comical, he could almost find it in his heart to pity him.
Once or twice as he smoked his cigar he could not forbear shaking
with laughter, the old Philander's pathetics struck him so
sardonically.
I really think the state of that old gentleman, who certainly had
attained to years of philosophy, was rather serious. That is, I dare
say that a competent medical man with his case under observation
at that moment would have pronounced him on the verge either of a
fit or of insanity.
When Varbarriere had left the room, General Lennox threw himself
on the red damask sofa, which smelled powerfully of yesterday's
swell bagman's tobacco, never perceiving that stale fragrance, nor
the thinness of the cushion which made the ribs and vertebræ of the
couch unpleasantly perceptible beneath. Then, with his knees
doubled up, and the "Times" newspaper over his face, he wept, and
moaned, and uttered such plaintive and hideous maunderings as
would do nobody good to hear of.
A variety of wise impulses visited him. One was to start
instantaneously for Marlowe and fight Sir Jekyl that night by
candlelight; another, to write to his wife for the last time as his wife
—an eternal farewell—which perhaps would have been highly
absurd, and affecting at the same time.
About two hours after Varbarriere's departure for dinner, he sent for
that gentleman, and they had another, a longer, and a more
collected interview—if not a happier one.
The result was, that Varbarriere's advice prevailed, as one might
easily foresee, having a patient so utterly incompetent to advise
himself.
The attorney, having shaken hands with Monsieur Varbarriere, and
watched from the platform the gradual disappearance of the train
that carried him from the purlieus of Slowton, with an expression of
face plaintive as that with which Dido on the wild sea banks beheld
the receding galleys of Æneas, loitered back again dolorously to the
hostelry.
He arrived at the door exactly in time to witness the descent of Guy
Deverell from his chaise. I think he would have preferred not
meeting him, it would have saved him a few boring questions; but it
was by no means a case for concealing himself. He therefore met
him with a melancholy frankness on the steps.
The young man recognised him.
"Mr. Rumsey?—How do you do? Is my uncle here?"
"He left by the last train. I hope I see you well, sir."
"Gone? and where to?"
"He did not tell me." That was true, but the attorney had seen his
valise labelled "Chester" by his direction. "He went by the London
train, but he said he would be back to-morrow. Can I do anything?
Your arrival was not expected."
"Thank you. I think not. It was just a word with my uncle I wished.
You say he will be here again in the morning?"
"Yes, so he said. I'm waiting to see him."
"Then I can't fail to meet him if I remain." The attorney perceived,
with his weatherwise experience, the traces of recent storm, both in
the countenance and the manner of this young man, whose
restiveness just now might be troublesome.
"Unless your business is urgent, I think—if you'll excuse me—you
had better return to Marlowe," remarked the attorney. "You'll find it
more comfortable quarters, a good deal, and your uncle will be very
much hurried while here, and means to return to Marlowe to-morrow
evening."
"But I shan't. I don't mean to return; in fact, I wish to speak to him
here. I've delayed you on the steps, sir, very rudely; the wind is
cold."
So he bowed, and they entered together, and the attorney, whose
curiosity was now a little piqued, found he could make nothing of
him, and rather disliked him; his reserve was hardly fair in so very
young a person, and practised by one who had not yet won his
spurs against so redoubted a champion as the knight of the rueful
countenance.
Next morning, as M. Varbarriere had predicted, General Lennox,
although sleep had certainly had little to do with the change, was
quite a different man in some respects—in no wise happier, but
much more collected; and now he promptly apprehended and
retained Monsieur Varbarriere's plan, which it was agreed was to be
executed that night.
More than once Varbarriere's compunctions revisited him as he sped
onwards that morning from Chester to Slowton. But as men will, he
bullied these misgivings and upbraidings into submission. He had
been once or twice on the point of disclosing this portion of the
complication to his attorney, but an odd sort of shyness prevented.
He fancied that possibly the picture and his part in it were not
altogether pretty, and somehow he did not care to expose himself to
the secret action of the attorney's thoughts.
Even in his own mind it needed the strong motive which had first
prompted it. Now it was no longer necessary to explore the mystery
of that secret door through which the missing deed, and indeed the
Deverell estate, had been carried into old Sir Harry's cupboard. But
what was to be done? He had committed himself to the statement.
General Lennox had a right to demand—in fact, he had promised—a
distinct explanation.
Yes, a distinct explanation, and, further, a due corroboration by proof
of that explanation. It was all due to Monsieur Varbarriere, who had
paid that debt to his credit and conscience, and behold what a
picture! Three familiar figures, irrevocably transformed, and placed
in what a halo of infernal light.
"The thing could not be helped, and, whether or no, it was only
right. Why the devil should I help Jekyl Marlowe to deceive and
disgrace that withered old gentleman? I don't think it would have
been a pleasant position for me."
And all the respectabilities hovering near cried "hear, hear, hear!"
and Varbarriere shook up his head, and looked magisterial over the
havoc of the last livid scene of the tragedy he had prepared; and the
porter crying "Slowton!" opened the door, and released him.
 CHAPTER X.
Uncle and Nephew.
When he reached his room, having breakfasted handsomely in the
coffee-room, and learned that early Mr. Rumsey had accomplished a
similar meal in his own sitting-room, he repaired thither, and entered
forthwith upon their talk.
It was a bright and pleasant morning; the poplar trees in front of the
hotel were all glittering in the mellow early sunlight, and the birds
twittering as pleasantly as if there was not a sorrow or danger on
earth.
"Well, sir, true to my hour," said Monsieur Varbarriere, in his deep
brazen tones, as smiling and wondrously he entered the attorney's
apartment.
"Good morning, sir—how d'ye do? Have you got those notes
prepared you mentioned?"
"That I have, sir, as you shall see, pencil though; but that doesn't
matter—no?"
The vowel sounded grandly in the upward slide of Varbarriere's
titanic double bass.
The attorney took possession of the pocket-book containing these
memoranda, and answered—
"No, I can read it very nicely. Your nephew is here, by-the-bye; he
came last night."
"Guy? What's brought him here?"
M. Varbarriere's countenance was overcast. What had gone wrong?
Some chamber in his mine had exploded, he feared, prematurely.
Varbarriere opened the door, intending to roar for Guy, but
remembering where he was, and the dimensions of the place, he
tugged instead at the bell-rope, and made his summons jangle wildly
through the lower regions.
"Hollo!" cried Varbarriere from his threshold, anticipating the
approaching waiter; "a young gentleman—a Mr. Guy Strangways,
arrived last evening?"
"Strangways, please, sir? Strangways? No, sir, I don't think we 'av
got no gentleman of that name in the 'ouse, sir."
"But I know you have. Go, make out where he is, and let him know
that his uncle, Monsieur Varbarriere, has just arrived, and wants to
see him—here, may I?" with a glance at the attorney.
"Certainly."
"There's some mischief," said Varbarriere, with a lowering glance at
the attorney.
"It looks uncommon like it," mused that gentleman, sadly.
"Why doesn't he come?" growled Varbarriere, with a motion of his
heel like a stamp. "What do you think he has done? Some cursed
sottise."
"Possibly he has proposed marriage to the young lady, and been
refused."
"Refused! I hope he has."
At this juncture the waiter returned.
"Well?"
"No, sir, please. No one hin the 'ouse, sir. No such name."
"Are you sure?" asked Varbarriere of the attorney, in an under
diapason.
"Perfectly—said he'd wait here for you. I told him you'd be here this
morning," answered he, dolorously.
"Go down, sir, and get me a list of the gentlemen in the house. I'll
pay for it," said Varbarriere, with an imperious jerk of his hand.
The ponderous gentleman in black was very uneasy, and well he
might. So he looked silently out of the window which commands a
view of the inn yard, and his eyes wandered over a handsome
manure-heap to the chicken-coop and paddling ducks, and he saw
three horses' tails in perspective in the chiaro-oscuro of the stable, in
the open door of which a groom was rubbing a curb chain. He
thought how wisely he had done in letting Guy know so little of his
designs. And as he gloomily congratulated himself on his wise
reserve, the waiter returned with a slate, and a double column of
names scratched on it.
Varbarriere having cast his eye over it, suddenly uttered an oath.
"Number 10—that's the gentleman. Go to number 10, and tell him
his uncle wants him here," roared Varbarriere, as if on the point of
knocking the harmless waiter down. "Read there!" he thundered,
placing the slate, with a clang, before the meek attorney, who read
opposite to number 10, "Mr. G. Deverell."
He pursed his mouth and looked up lackadaisically at his glowering
client, saying only "Ha!"
A minute after and Guy Deverell in person entered the room. He
extended his hand deferentially to M. Varbarriere, who on his part
drew himself up black as night, and thrust his hands half way to the
elbows in his trowsers pockets, glaring thunderbolts in the face of
the contumacious young man.
"You see that?" jerking the slate with another clang before Guy. "Did
you give that name? Look at number ten, sir." Varbarriere was now
again speaking French.
"Yes, sir, Guy Deverell—my own name. I shall never again consent to
go by any other. I had no idea what it might involve—never."
The young man was pale, but quite firm.
"You've broken your word, sir; you have ended your relations with
me," said Varbarriere, with a horrible coldness.
"I am sorry, sir—I have broken my promise, but when I could not
keep it without a worse deception. To the consequences, be they
what they may, I submit, and I feel, sir, more deeply than you will
ever know all the kindness you have shown me from my earliest
childhood until now."
"Infinitely flattered," sneered Varbarriere, with a mock bow. "You
have, I presume, disclosed your name to the people at Marlowe as
frankly as to those at Slowton?"
"Lady Alice Redcliffe called me by my true name, and insisted it was
mine. I could not deny it—I admitted the truth. Mademoiselle
Marlowe was present also, and heard what passed. In little more
than an hour after this scene I left Marlowe Manor. I did not see Sir
Jekyl, and simply addressed a note to him saying that I was called
away unexpectedly. I did not repeat to him the disclosure made to
Lady Alice. I left that to the discretion of those who had heard it."
"Their discretion—very good—and now, Monsieur Guy Deverell, I
have done with you. I shan't leave you as I took you up, absolutely
penniless. I shall so place you as to enable you with diligence to
earn your bread without degradation—that is all. You will be so good
as to repair forthwith to London and await me at our quarters in St.
James's Street. I shall send you, by next post, a cheque to meet
expenses in town—no, pray don't thank me; you might have thanked
me by your obedience. I shan't do much more to merit thanks. Your
train starts from hence, I think, in half an hour."
Varbarriere nodded angrily, and moved his hand towards the door.
"Farewell, sir," said Guy, bowing low, but proudly.
"One word more," said Varbarriere, recollecting suddenly; "you have
not arranged a correspondence with any person? answer me on your
honour."
"No, sir, on my honour."
"Go, then. Adieu!" and Varbarriere turned from him brusquely, and
so they parted.
"Am I to understand, sir," inquired the attorney, "that what has just
occurred modifies our instructions to proceed in those cases?"
"Not at all, sir," answered Varbarriere, firmly.
"You see the civil proceedings must all be in the name of the young
gentleman—a party who is of age—and you see what I mean."
"I undertake personally the entire responsibility; you are to proceed
in the name of Guy Deverell, and what is more, use the utmost
despatch, and spare no cost. When shall we open the battle?"
"Why, I dare say next term."
"That is less than a month hence?"
"Yes, sir."
"By my faith, his hands will be pretty full by that time," said
Varbarriere, exultingly. "We must have the papers out again. I can
give you all this day, up to half-past five o'clock. We must get the
new case into shape for counsel. You run up to town this evening. I
suspect I shall follow you to-morrow; but I must run over first to
Marlowe. I have left my things there, and my servant; and I suppose
I must take a civil leave of my enemy—there are courtesies, you
know—as your prize-fighters shake hands in the ring."
The sun was pretty far down in the west by the time their sederunt
ended. M. Varbarriere got into his short mantle and mufflers, and
donned his ugly felt hat, talking all the while in his deep metallic
tones, with his sliding cadences and resounding emphases. The
polite and melancholy attorney accompanied his nutritious client to
the door, and after he had taken his seat in his vehicle, they chatted
a little earnestly through the window, agreeing that they had grown
very "strong" indeed—anticipating nothing but victory, and in
confidential whispers breathing slaughter.
As Varbarriere, with his thick arm stuffed through one of the
upholstered leathern loops with which it is the custom to flank the
windows of all sorts of carriages, and his large varnished boot on the
vacant cushion at the other side, leaned back and stared darkly and
dreamily through the plate glass on the amber-tinted landscape, he
felt rather oddly approaching such persons and such scenes—a crisis
with a remoter and more tremendous crisis behind—the thing long
predicted in the whisperings of hope—the real thing long dreamed
of, and now greeted strangely with a mixture of exultation and
disgust.
There are few men, I fancy, who so thoroughly enjoy their revenge
as they expected. It is one of those lusts which has its goût de
revers—"sweet in the mouth, bitter in the belly;" one of those
appetites which will allow its victim no rest till it is gratified, and no
peace afterward. Now, M. Varbarriere was in for it, he was already
coming under the solemn shadow of its responsibilities, and was
chilled. It involved other people, too, besides its proper object—
people who, whatever else some of them might be, were certainly,
as respected him and his, innocent. Did he quail, and seriously think
of retiring re infectâ? No such thing! It is wonderful how steadfast of
purpose are the disciples of darkness, and how seldom, having put
their hands to the plough, they look back.
All this while Guy Deverell, in exile, was approaching London with
brain, like every other, teeming with its own phantasmagoria. He
knew not what particular danger threatened Marlowe Manor, which
to him was a temple tenanted by Beatrix alone, the living idol whom
he worshipped. He was assured that somehow his consent, perhaps
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