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He drew in and expelled rich clouds of smoke; and set himself to think hard. The judge had recognised the impossibility of living in Doyle's hotel. That was a plain and intelligible point from which to start. He had gone straight to Ballymoy House, knowing that he would find Miss King there.
It's a nuisance, for I was extremely comfortable on the yacht, but I can't leave things in the muddle they're in now, and there's nobody else about the place I could trust to clear them up." "You may as well drive me into Ballymoy, Doyle," said Meldon, as they walked up together from the shore. "You've your trap with you, I suppose?"
The yacht was borne very slowly on, and it became possible at last to distinguish the figure of the waiter more clearly. "He looks to me," said Meldon a few minutes later, "very like that fellow Callaghan, the Ballymoy House gardener." There was another pause.
If he could have thought of a crime at the moment, Hyacinth would probably have confessed it; but he was bewildered, and could hit on nothing better than: 'I have no elder brother in fact, no relation of any sort. 'Lucky man! Now, I have a perfect specimen of a brother James Quinn, Esquire, of Ballymoy. He's a churchwarden. Think of that!
It was his first visit to the part of Ireland he was travelling through, and he looked with keen interest at the bogs, the scattered cottages, the lean cattle, scanty pasture lands, potato fields, patches of oats, and squalid towns. At Donard Station, which is the terminus of this branch of the railway, and the nearest station to Ballymoy, he got out.
She was evidently going to say something. Dr. O'Grady waited. He had to wait for some time, because the lady was very-much out of breath. At last she spoke. "Dr. O'Grady," she said, "I believe in plain speaking." Neither Dr. O'Grady nor anyone else in Ballymoy doubted the truth of this. Nearly everybody had been spoken to plainly by Mrs. Ford at one time or another.
J. J. Why? What has the poor woman done?" "It's not so much what she has done," said Meldon, "that makes me think she'd be a suitable match for Simpkins. It's what she will do. She'll murder him." "Nonsense." "It's not nonsense. She will. She told me herself that she has come to Ballymoy for the express purpose of murdering another husband.
"But I don't see yet why you first of all wanted to keep me out of Ballymoy, and then suddenly changed your mind. What happened in the interval?" "If you're quite determined to thrash the matter out," said Meldon, "the best way will be to get at the main point at once. Everything will come easier to us after we have that settled. Have you any objection to our proposal?" "What proposal?"
That's not the kind of thing I consider amusing, though you may. Miss King doesn't consider it amusing either. She said she often cries when she thinks of her victims, and very often she can't sleep at night." "Miss King!" said the Major. "That's the name of the lady who has taken Ballymoy House for the summer." "Exactly. The lady whom I propose to marry to your friend Simpkins." "Good Lord!
For two summers he had no holiday at all, and it was only by the most fortunate of chances that he found himself during the third summer in a position to go to Ballymoy. He sublet his house to a freshly-arrived supervisor of Inland Revenue, who wanted six weeks to look about for a suitable residence.
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