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Barleyfield led him through this garden to a side-door, whence they passed into a roomy, low-ceilinged parlour which reminded Viner of old coaching prints he would scarcely have believed it possible that such a pre-Victorian room could be found in London. There were several men in it, and he nudged his companion's elbow. "Let us sit down in a quiet corner and have something to drink," he said.
Carless looked at his client, who nodded his head as if in assent to something in the glance. "Well, as I'm now in possession of the facts," said he, "I'll tell you, Pawle His Lordship has given me a clear account of what his first callers said, and what you and Mr. Viner added to it.
Even if I did, I probably couldn't make you understand I don't, myself, as I look back. Be just to me it's your right; all I ask you is to be generous to Miss Viner..." She stood up trembling. "You're free to be as generous to her as you please!" "Yes: you've made it clear to me that I'm free. But there's nothing I can do for her that will help her half as much as your understanding her would."
His armchair again invited him from the hearth, but he was too agitated to sit still, and with sunk head and hands clasped behind his back he began to wander up and down the room. His five minutes with Sophy Viner had flashed strange lights into the shadowy corners of his consciousness. The girl's absolute candour, her hard ardent honesty, was for the moment the vividest point in his thoughts.
The particulars I shall set down by and by. By and by comes Alderman Maynell and Mr. Viner, and there my Lord Treasurer did intreat them to furnish me with money upon my tallys, Sir Philip Warwicke before my Lord declaring the King's changing of the hand from Mr.
In this I went with Creed to Goldsmiths' Hall, to the burial of Sir Thomas Viner; which Hall, and Haberdashers also, was so full of people, that we were fain for ease and coolness to go forth to Pater Noster Row, to choose a silke to make me a plain ordinary suit. That done, we walked to Cornehill, and there at Mr.
It was not until he had gone a good half of his journey that Viner began to wonder whatever it was that had taken Miss Wickham and her chaperon down to the far boundaries of the City or, indeed, farther. Mrs. Killenhall had said the City, but Viner knew his London well enough to know that Whitechapel Road lies without the City confines. She had said, too, that a man who knew Mr.
"Whom Mr. Viner knows for a fact," continued Mr. Pawle, "to have been in Ashton's company only an hour or so before Ashton's murder!" Lord Ellingham looked at Viner in obvious surprise. "But you do not know who he is?" he exclaimed. "No," replied Viner, "I don't. But there is no doubt of the truth of what Mr. Pawle has just said. This man was certainly with Mr.
"No watch there, anyway, and nothing where you'd expect to find his purse. Robbery and murder murder for the sake of robbery that's what it is, Mr. Viner! Westbourne Grove way, you say this fellow went? And five minutes' start!" "Is it any good getting a doctor?" asked Viner. "A thousand doctors'll do him no good," replied the policeman grimly. "But there's Dr.
"Well, then," she summed up, in response to his repeated assertions that he saw no way of helping her, "you can, at least, even if you won't say a word to the others, tell me frankly and fairly and quite between ourselves your personal opinion of Miss Viner, since you've known her so much longer than we have."
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