little miss austin

She arrived at Newton Manor early in the morning, and Ivo also came, and they had breakfast at Newton Manor.

Oliver told Ivo what happened after he returned home, and Ivo also found it very strange. After all, if Oliver has no knighthood and doesn't have much property, who is so painstakingly trying to cheat him?

The two are as close as they were when they were teenagers again, which also makes Alice feel that the friendship between men is really fascinating.

The baron, Oliver, Julian, and Ivo all carefully checked the signature on the marriage certificate. The baron couldn't tell whether it was Oliver's handwriting, Oliver didn't admit it, Julian wasn't sure, and Ivo said it wasn't Oliver's signature.

Everyone in the Paul family was indignant.Thomas Paul angrily accused Oliver of being a liar, cheating his sister and another poor innocent girl.

Uncle Cynthia yelled to go to court to sue Oliver, while Cynthia was in charge of crying pitifully.

Oliver said irritably: "Then go to the court, I will never admit this wedding."

Ivo whispered a few words in his ear, and he nodded.

"If the judge declared the marriage valid, I would immediately ask for a divorce, and I still refuse to admit to this wedding. A lie is a lie, and I will never admit it."

Cynthia looked desperate: "Oliver!"

Oliver glanced at her indifferently.

Oliver, Alice and Ivo left Newton Manor and went to Daylesford House.

In the carriage, Alice jokingly said: "She is too stupid. If it were me, I would bring the child to you. Well, it is a boy, also called Oliver. When I see you, I will ask the child to hold your thigh and shout 'Daddy'. Anyway, you have no way to prove to yourself that the child is not yours."

Oliver was shocked, and Ivo almost died of laughter.

She didn't laugh, and said seriously: "The other party has evidence and physical evidence, and you can't defend yourself at all. Oliver, you are so unfortunate!"

He was so worried, "Help me find a way!"

"We can only go to the court, and then we spend money to buy the judge and declare the marriage invalid, which is more reliable. Anyway, she didn't expect to have a child, so the possibility of invalidation is relatively high. Besides, the Paul family If you do get a 9-year-old, you can ask a doctor to see if Cynthia Paul has ever had a baby."

"Can't there be an easier solution?"

"Yes. You send a solid, trustworthy intermediary to ask Cynthia Paul what she really wants, whether she wants money or a husband."

Ivo thought for a while, nodded, "It's a way."

"Uncle Evelyn?"

"He can. You write to ask him to come here. If it was just a marriage contract, you don't need to bother him, but now it's not something that can be solved by canceling the marriage contract. If you don't want to go to court and become social news, you'd better spend some money to solve it. .”

Ivo said: "You should find someone to investigate why the Paul family suddenly wanted to frame you after so many years."

"It's time to find someone smart to investigate. Ivo, do you know anyone?"

He thought for a while, "I have an informant with a very flexible mind. I can ask him to go to Cambridge to inquire. In fact, I can go, but I am worried that someone in Paul's family may know me." After all, they are relatives, maybe what I saw it when I was there. "If you want someone to check, you need to find someone they will never know."

"You are very thoughtful. I think it may be a matter of money. How was his family's financial situation?"

"It's not bad, not as good as my family and Gordon's family, but richer than Austin's family 10 years ago."

"In a family like yours, most of the property will be real estate. As long as the property can be kept, there is no problem maintaining it as it is. So, did Thomas Paul indulge in gambling and lose all his property, thinking of you, a hapless fool?"

Oliver was angry and funny, "What did you say?"

"I don't like this kind of thing, and I don't like helping you solve such a bad thing. If Cynthia Paul comes to me and talks nonsense, I will definitely give her a little bit of a show!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a gunshot outside the carriage, the window glass was shattered, and the horse pulling the carriage was frightened and ran wildly.

Alice was so frightened that she screamed again and again: People may die if the carriage overturns!

Oliver hugged her as soon as he heard the gunshot, the carriage was jolting, and they were bouncing up and down in the carriage and they were about to fly.After bouncing for a while, the carriage tipped over to the left, slid a few feet on the ground, hit a tree by the side of the road, and stopped.

Oliver hugged her as hard as he could, and she shivered and screamed in his arms until the car hit a tree and stopped.

Jacob called her anxiously, "Miss Alice! Miss Alice!"

Half of Ivo's face was covered in blood, and he asked nervously, "How is she? Is she injured?"

Jacob opened the door, and the carriage now had one door facing the ground and the other facing the sky.

"It should be fine, I'm just scared. Come on, take her out first." Oliver and Ivo lifted Alice up, and Jacob hugged her, jumped out of the carriage, and placed her on the grass by the side of the road superior.

Ivo then came out, "Check to see if she's injured."

Jacob looked down and panicked, "Master Ivo!" His voice trembled.

Ivo was busy wiping the blood from his eyes, but he didn't bother to check where he was bleeding, "She was injured, where is the injury?"

There was a large bloodstain on her waist, staining her skirt red.A shard of glass was stuck in her lower left abdomen. Although she was not unconscious, her face was pale.

Ivo yelled, "Oliver!"

Oliver just jumped out of the carriage, came over quickly, tore open the rip on her skirt, and examined her wound calmly, "It's not too deep, but the glass cannot be removed now." He took out a dagger from his belt, Cut off a large piece of her petticoat and carefully pressed it on her wound.

"The bleeding must be stopped first. But this is not enough." He looked around: there were no horses in front of the carriage, and it must have been Jacob or the coachman who cut off the horse's belt and let the horse run away by itself.

He told the coachman: "Run back to Daylesford House immediately, and tell the steward to send someone to the doctor and send a carriage to fetch us."

The coachman nodded and ran away.

He asked Jacob again, "Did you bring Alice's medicine chest?"

"Brought it."

"You go back and tell Kate to find the medicine box, and then you bring the medicine box here on horseback."

Jacob sprinted away.

He took off his coat, covered her, and patted her face, "Alice, Alice, can't sleep."

She was confused, "It hurts."

"Be patient, I'll take you home soon."

"Am I hurt?"

"Yes, a little hurt. Don't fall asleep, talk to me."

"Ollie," she couldn't open her eyes, "if I die, I will let you carve your last name on my tombstone."

"Don't talk nonsense. Such a small injury is nothing."

"My medicine chest..."

"Jacob went to get the medicine chest."

She said with difficulty: "I told you how those medicines are used, save me, I don't want to die."

"Okay. You won't die. I was injured more than you. The sound of the explosive barrel exploding was loud. I was thinking of you when I fell to the ground. I couldn't die without seeing you. You might Cry a few times for me, but gradually you will forget about me."

"Not at all."

Ivo frowned and checked himself quickly.His head was scratched by glass, and there was a lot of blood, but now it seemed to have begun to freeze.

Oliver was not injured, and he was considered the best one.

There was a great commotion at Daylesford House.

Oliver came back first with Alice and Ivo, and 10 minutes later, a footman came with the doctor.

The doctor cleaned up the wound for Alice, pulled out the glass, and immediately plugged the wound with cotton.Then the wound was sutured with sheep intestines, and it took more than two hours to complete the operation.

Kate washed Ivo's hair, washed away the blood, cut off the hair around the wound, then sprinkled hemostatic powder on the wound on his head, wrapped it with cotton, and finally wrapped it with a bandage.

Oliver asked Jacob to get the horse ready for him.

He held back his anger, "Thomas Paul must have done it!"

"What does he want to do? Kill you?" Ivo frowned.

"It doesn't have to kill me. No matter who among the three of us dies, he can achieve his goal. If Alice—" His heart ached, "if Alice is dead, there is no obstacle. Or you If I die, I will be guilty for the rest of my life."

"I don't think they want you dead." Ivo said solemnly.

"Who knows what the madman is thinking?"

"What do you want?"

Oliver squinted his eyes and sneered, "Isn't Paul unwilling to duel with me? That's okay, I'll just challenge him to a duel."

After the doctor came out of the guest room, Oliver went in to take a look at Alice, then came out quickly, and galloped back to Newton Manor on horseback.

Kate was weeping, worrying now about Miss Alice, now about Master Oliver.

Ivo asked her to do things, turned around what she instructed, and kept busy.Later, he went upstairs to see Alice.

She was lying on the bed, asleep.She lost a lot of blood, her face was pale, and her brows were tightly knit.

He moved a chair and sat on the edge of the bed.

The maid had already changed her nightgown into a light pink muslin nightgown with lace, and her arms and neck were tightly wrapped.

He stretched out his fingers and touched her face lightly, thinking that it had nothing to do with her, it was Oliver, the idiot!It's all his fault!

He suddenly burst into anger: it's all because Oliver didn't deal with his shit in time!She shouldn't have been hurt. Not only did Oliver fail to protect her, but he made her get hurt because of him!

If Oliver had been here, he would have fought him hard again!

"Alice, let me take you away, we go back to Winchester, or London, or wherever you want. Oliver is such a fool! He should take good care of you and protect you, but now you are hurt because of him He is such an idiot! Are you in pain? You must be in pain. You were very afraid of pain when you were a child. I still remember when you came up from the river and fell down. There was a stone on the ground and your leg hit the stone. Come on, shed some blood, and you were scared to cry at that time."

He babbled about what happened when he was a child, it was strange, he thought it was all many years ago, he had forgotten it long ago, but those memories about her seemed to be just put in the corner of the memory room, and used They ran out all the time.Those vivid memories are their youthful time.

Oliver's duel with Thomas Paul was scheduled for three days later.

For these three days he lived in Daylesford House, and stayed by Alice's side almost all day.

She had been sleeping since the operation that day, and she woke up in the middle of the night, ate something, went to the bathroom, Kate wiped her body, and she fell asleep again.

The next night, she developed a fever.

On the day she was injured, Ivo wrote to Mrs. Austin, saying that Alice had suffered a carriage accident and was bleeding, and sent a letter to London overnight.

Mrs. Austen received the letter the next evening, and came early the next morning.On the way, I also met Oliver’s uncle, the Earl of Deflores. The two families merged together and hurried on the way, making fewer stops and rests on the way, and changing horses at post stations instead of letting the horses rest for a few hours before going on the road. It took two days to reach Daylesford House.

During the period, Ivo, as a witness, went to watch the duel between Oliver and Thomas Paul.