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Updated: October 18, 2025
A few minutes later the tutor was riding smartly to Yeld. During the half-hour occupied by that journey the signs of the approaching storm became manifest. The blue of the sky took a leaden hue, and out at sea an ominous cloud-bank lifted its head on the horizon, while the sultry air seemed to breathe hot on the rider's cheek. He pulled up short at Dr Brandram's door.
Dr Brandram's reply to this transparent communication was to order his dogcart and take the first train to London. Before starting, he had time to send a telegram to Armstrong to meet him at the hotel the same evening. Little dreaming of the effect of his message, Captain Oliphant was spending a resigned afternoon in the sick-room. Fate was working on his side once more.
Mr Brandram's comment upon the letter from Borrow telling of the posters was that its contents had "afforded us no little merriment. The idea of your placards and placard-bearers in Madrid is indeed a novel one. It cannot but be effectual in giving publicity.
He told me because I asked. Poor darling father!" And with something very like a sob she hurried on to Yeld. She went straight to Dr Brandram's. "Well, my dear young lady, it does one good to see you back," said he; "but bless me, how pale you look." "Do I? I'm quite well, thank you. Dr Brandram," said she, "do you know anything about this Mr Ratman?" The Doctor stared at this abrupt inquiry.
You will perhaps suppose remarks were made in Committee. This does not happen to be the case, though I fully anticipated it. Mr Browne, Mr Jowett and myself had first privately devoured your letter, and we made our remarks. We could relish such a phrase." Sometimes there was a suggestion of spite in Mr Brandram's letters.
Mr Brandram's letter accompanying these Resolutions is little more than an amplification of the Committee's decision: "I have, I assure you," he writes, "endeavoured to place myself in your situation and enter into your feelings strongly excited by the irreparable mischief which you suppose Mr G. to have done to our cause so dear to you.
Just about the time when he kicked his final goal, Roger Ingleton, minor, in London arrived at the dreary conclusion, after an hour's painful study of directories and maps, that there was no such street as Long Street, London, W. Mr Brandram's abrupt summons to Mr Armstrong was not due to the reappearance on the scene of the mysterious Robert Ratman.
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