badington's

Updated: June 19, 2025

I knew then that Miss Dolly was done for, and I did not believe that the day could pass and keep the police from Lord Badington's doorstep. I should tell you that Moss had called at the police station at Sandwich as we drove through, and that a sergeant and a constable came over to the inn on bicycles about midday.

Sir Max Pemberton - The Man Who Drove the Car

Here luck stood by Miss Dolly, for hardly had I pulled the great bell at Lord Badington's gate when his own car came flying up the drive, with his lordship himself sitting in the back of it. "What do you want, my man?" he asked, in a quick, sharp tone he's a wonder for fifty-two, and there has been no smarter man in the Guards since he left them. "Where do you come from?"

Sir Max Pemberton - The Man Who Drove the Car