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It might be worth taking if they'd let it." "But you've been to Keldale already, Mr. Carrington!" said Miss Peterkin. "I wonder you don't have a look at one of the other places." "I'm one of those fellows who make up their minds slowly," he explained. "But when we cautious fellows do make up our minds, well, something generally happens!"
"I advised her vera strongly, sir, to come over with me to Stanesland," explained her escort. "The young lady has had a trying experience at Keldale, and forby the fair impossibility of her stopping on under the unfortunate circumstances, I was of the opinion that the sea air would be a fine change and the architectural features remarkably interesting.
She looked a little surprised. "Oh, you know exactly. Almost just four months ago, wasn't it?" He nodded, but said nothing, and she went on: "From the very first it had seemed very strange that I had never heard a word about the Cromartys from mother, and as soon as I got to Keldale and met Lady Cromarty, I felt sure there was something wrong. I mean that I wasn't an ordinary distant relation.
When they reached the Kings Arms, his new acquaintance insisted in a very friendly and confident way that there was no immediate hurry about starting for Keldale, and that the baronet must come up to his sitting room first and have a little refreshment. The effect of a couple of large glasses of sloe gin was quickly apparent. Sir Malcolm became decidedly happier and even more confidential.
"Well, if I go to Keldale armed with a card of introduction from you, to make enquiry about the shootings, I think I can undertake to turn the conversation on to other matters without exciting suspicion." "Conversation with whom?" enquired the lawyer sceptically. "I had thought of Mr. Bisset, the butler." "Oh " began Mr. Rattar with a note of surprise, and then pulled himself up.
"Surely, sir," he burst forth at last, "you're not thinking this goes to indicate any deductions or datas showing she's guilty?" "I'm dashed if I know what to think," murmured Carrington still lost in thought. Suddenly he turned his eyeglass on the other. "By Jove!" he exclaimed, "the day before yesterday I passed that girl riding on a bicycle towards Keldale House after dark!
On the morning after Sir Malcolm's fleeting visit to the Kings Arms, the manageress was informed by her friend Mr. Carrington that he would like a car immediately after breakfast. "I really must be a little more energetic, or I'll never find anything to suit me," he smiled in his most leisurely manner. "I am thinking of running out to Keldale to have another look at the place.
"I went out to Keldale House first and then out to you. I next interviewed Sir Malcolm." "Interviewed Malcolm Cromarty!" exclaimed Ned. "Where?" "He came up to see me," explained Carrington easily, "and the gentleman had scarcely spoken six sentences before I shared your opinion of him, Mr. Cromarty a squirt but not homicidal. He gave me, however, one very interesting piece of information.
He needn't spend months on end at Keldale." The baronet was silent for a moment. Then he said: "To tell the truth, my dear, I'm afraid Malcolm is not turning out quite so well as I had hoped. He certainly ought to be away doing something. At the same time, hang it, you wouldn't have me turn my own kinsman and heir out of my house, Margaret; would you?"
"I thought I heard him say 'Keldale House," she confessed. "Really!" he exclaimed and seemed to muse for a moment. In fact, he appeared to be still musing as he walked away. Mary began to wonder very seriously whether Mr. Carrington was going to prove merely a fresh addition to the disquieting mysteries of that house.
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