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"Poor creature!" said I, "I should think this day's pleasuring would kill him." "Now, wouldn't you think so?" said Mrs. Kew, sympathizingly; "but the truth is, you couldn't kill one of those Crapers if you pounded him in a mortar." We had a pleasant drive home, and we kept Mrs. Kew to supper, and afterward went down to the shore to see her set sail for home. Mr.
Farmer, of Kew, the police surgeon, to make the post-mortem. We made the examination in the afternoon, before the light faded, and if the circumstances of the crime were mysterious, the means by which the unfortunate man was murdered were, we found, doubly so. Outwardly, the wound was an ordinary one, one inch in breadth, inflicted by a blow delivered from left to right.
We often went out early in one of the fishing-boats, and after we had stayed as long as we pleased, Mr. Kew would bring us home. It was quiet enough that day, for not a single boat had come in, and there were no men to be seen along-shore. There was a solemn company of lobster-coops or cages which had been brought in to be mended. They always amused Kate.
So they were just aneroids: aluminum cases, jewelled movements, army-officer patented improvements, Kew certificates, import duty, and all just aneroids, and one was as bad as the other. Within their limitations they are exceedingly useful instruments, but it is folly to depend on them for measuring great heights.
Thiselton Dyer, now Director of Kew Gardens, and his wife, the daughter of Sir John Hooker a most charming person, who reminded both of us of the lovely women immortalized by Reynolds. The third edition of "Etching and Etchers," now on sale, had fulfilled all expectations, and was universally admired and praised.
The brick rubble should be pounded up so that the largest pieces are about the size of hazel nuts. Lime rubbish, i.e., old plaster from buildings, &c., is sometimes recommended for Cactuses, but it does not appear to be of any use except as drainage. At Kew its use has been discontinued, and it is now generally condemned by all good cultivators.
They mostly met in the Park, rarely at other people's houses. Once she lunched at the Nugents' and had the afternoon alone with him; twice he drove her to Kew Gardens; once she asked him for a week-end to Wycross, and they had some talks and a walk. He wrote perhaps once a week, and she answered him perhaps once a fortnight. Not more. She had to put the screw on herself to outdo him in frugality.
"The man what's his name? Short. Do you know him?" "Yes, sir. I've often seen him in the 'Star and Garter' at Kew Bridge." "Drinks?" "Not much, sir. He was fined over at Brentford six months ago for letting a dog go unmuzzled. His greatest friend is one of the gardeners at the Palace a man named Burford, a most respectable fellow."
"Because you quarrelled with Lady Walham, grandmamma. I think I have heard that there used to be differences between you." Miss Newcome was armed for defence and attack; in which cases we have said Lady Kew did not care to assault her. "My grandson told me that he had written to you," the Countess said.
"'Indeed it was lucky for some of us you devoted yourself to high art, Gandish, Mr. Smee says, and sips the wine and puts it down again, making a face. It was not first-rate tipple, you see. "'Two girls, continues that indomitable Mr. Gandish. 'Hidea for 'Babes in the Wood. 'View of Paestum, taken on the spot by myself, when travelling with the late lamented Earl of Kew.
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