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"If you please, your grace, we waited for the duchess outside Cane and Wilson's, the drapers. The duchess came out, got into the carriage, and Moysey shut the door, and her grace said, 'Home! and yet when we got home she wasn't there." "She wasn't where?" "Her grace wasn't in the carriage, your grace." "What on earth do you mean?"
Item, that the said abbot hath granted leases of farms and advocations first to one man, and took his fine, and also hath granted the same lease to another man for more money; and then would make to the last taker a lease or writing, with an antedate of the first lease, which hath bred great dissension among gentlemen as Master Blunt and Master Moysey, and other takers of such leases and that often.
You never picked up the duchess, and you're trying to palm this tale off on me to save yourselves." Barnes was moved to adjuration: "I'll take my Bible oath, your grace, that the duchess got into the carriage outside Cane and Wilson's." Moysey seconded his colleague. "I will swear to that, your grace. She got into that carriage, and I shut the door, and she said, 'Home, Moysey!"
The duchess uttered a sound which was half gasp, half sigh. "Hereward!" "Barnes and Moysey, with beautiful and childlike innocence, when they found that they had brought the thing home empty, came straightway and told me that you had jumped out of the brougham while it had been driving full pelt through the streets.
He was silent. Moysey showed a larger courage. "I could have sworn that it was at the time, your grace. But now it seems to me that it's a rummy go." "A rummy go!" The peculiarity of the phrase did not seem to strike the duke just then at least, he echoed it as if it didn't. "You call it a rummy go!
When that fellow brought you that card at Cane and Wilson's which, I need scarcely tell you, never came from me some one walked out of the front entrance who was so exactly like you that both Barnes and Moysey took her for you. Moysey showed her into the carriage, and Barnes drove her home. But when the carriage reached home it was empty. Your double had got out upon the road."
The decision of the Commissioners in the question of the Keate Award, which next came under their consideration, appears to have been a judicious one, being founded on the very careful Report of Colonel Moysey, R.E., who had been for many months collecting information on the spot.
I particularly wished her to lie down for a couple of hours." Knowles ushered in not only Barnes, the coachman, but Moysey, the footman, too. Both these persons seemed to be ill at ease. The duke glanced at them sharply. In his voice there was a suggestion of impatience. "What is the matter?" Barnes explained as best he could.
"Her grace did get into the carriage; you shut the door, didn't you?" Barnes turned to Moysey. Moysey brought his hand up to his brow in a sort of military salute he had been a soldier in the regiment in which, once upon a time, the duke had been a subaltern. "She did. The duchess came out of the shop. She seemed rather in a hurry, I thought.
He turned on Messrs. Barnes and Moysey as though he would have liked to rend them. "You scoundrels!" He moved forward as though the intention had entered his ducal heart to knock his servants down. But, if that were so, he did not act quite up to his intention.
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