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Significantly from the point of view of the Damar Greefe Law my ward had grown up, not as English girls grow, but, like the Easterners, as the hot-house flower grows. The point has intense interest for the scientist. At the age of twelve she was a tall, slender woman, beautifully formed and with a natural elegance and taste which came from the Coverly stock, or possibly from her mother's side.
Provision had been made in the will of Sir Burnham for the retention by his widow of Friar's Park and the revenues thereof; but since in the event of her death I should have been compelled to appear in the character of the mortgagee, it was contrary to our interests that Lady Coverly should die whilst any heir to the estate remained alive.
He was well-read in cities, and had brought home a budget of light, popular, and profusely illustrated articles of talk on an equivocal variety of urban life, which he prettily distributed among clovery pastorals, Wordsworthian ballads, De Coverly entertainments, Crayon sketches, and Sparrowgrass Papers, for the benefit of his country subscribers.
Yours truley GUS BRISKOW. "Um-m! Who is Mr. Briskow?" Coverly shrugged. "Probably some nester who never saw a hundred dollars all in one place until recently. When they strike oil, they buy diamonds, nice large yellow ones, as a rule; then as the money continues to flow in, they pay off the mortgage and buy a bank or an interest in one."
As a bachelor he had no use for a large establishment, and Friars' Park remains in the possession of the late Sir Burnham's widow." "Sir Burnham? Sir Marcus's uncle?" "Yes." "What living relatives had Sir Marcus?" "His aunt Lady Burnham Coverly with whom I believe he was on bad terms. Her own son, who ought to have inherited the title, was dead, you see.
Eric is at his solicitors' and they tell him that suspicion is bound to fall on him! It's preposterous unthinkable. It must have been some fiend who committed such a crime, not a human being " "Then," I interrupted excitedly, "Coverly was not with you last night?" "No! That is the crowning tragedy of it all.
And now fell an awesome silence; for whilst Gatton and I stood bare-headed, the unfortunate Eric Coverly was being carried out to the waiting car; and even as I turned my eyes away in horror from that spectacle, I was endeavoring to frame the words in which I should acquaint Isobel with this second ghastly tragedy.
I had learned of the wreck of my hopes upon reading a press paragraph which announced the engagement of Isobel Merlin to Eric Coverly. And it was as much to conceal my disappointment from the world as for any better reason that I had slunk into retirement; for if I am slow to come to a decision in such a matter, once come to, it is of no light moment.
I had not at that time learned what I learned later, and have already indicated, that my own foolish silence had wounded Isobel as deeply as her subsequent engagement to Eric Coverly had wounded me.
I should be glad if you would take it up." I inquired without much enthusiasm for details. Criminology was one of my hobbies, and in several instances I had traced cases of alleged haunting and other supposedly supernatural happenings to a criminal source; but the ordinary sordid murder did not interest me. "The body of Sir Marcus Coverly has been found in a crate!" explained my friend.
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