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Here it may be necessary to explain that formerly the owner of Cranbourne Chase, at that time Lord Rivers, claimed the deer and the right to preserve and hunt deer over a considerable extent of country outside of his own lands.
"How the devil do you know that?" exclaimed Barraclough. Nugent Cassis answered the question. "We have our private information bureau in the opposite camp." "Ah! Anyone I know?" "That's immaterial." "I think I deserve your confidence." "Have you given us yours?" Barraclough lit a cigarette. "Oh, very well," he said. "So I'm to be kidnapped." "At twelve precisely," Cranbourne nodded.
I have tow on the rock, and it must be spun off. Let us see our present undertakings. 1. Napoleon. 2. Review Home, Cranbourne Chase, and the Mysteries. 3. Something for that poor faineant Gillies. 4. Essay on Ballad and Song. 5. Something on the modern state of France. These two last for the Prose Works. But they may " do a little more, And produce a little ore." Come, we must up and be doing.
Next came Cranbourne, very anxious and ever pulling out his watch, tugging at his lower lip or pacing up and down. "Why not take a chair?" suggested Mr. Torrington. "Can't! I feel things y'know." "All my life I've been feeling things without showing it," came the reflective observation. "If only I had that two of diamonds! It's sure to be the last card." "How you can sit there playing cards!"
So he took a three-pair back in a French hotel, the "Hotel de l'Ail," kep by Monsieur Gigotot, Cranbourne Street, Lester Squarr, London.
He walked through the woods to the high road, and if he saw a peasant whose face was unfamiliar, waited for him lest he should prove a fugitive and bring news. On Tuesday Lenfield knew that Sedgemoor had been fought and lost, and that Monmouth was a fugitive. In which direction he had fled was not known, but Crosby hazarded a guess and rode some distance towards Cranbourne Chase.
"They must be aware that we know about the kidnapping." "I imagine so. At any rate Cranbourne intends to put them wise." "Then where's the object?" "Our friend Frencham Altar has disappointed 'em perhaps, so they turn their attentions once more to our humble selves." "Makes me almost wish we'd left the whole thing alone. Seventy thousand pounds in three weeks. Appalling! Appalling!"
I'll stand your losses on this." He looked over his shoulder at the sound of a persistent croaking. A long grey Vauxhall car with a special body was coming down the road at speed. Cranbourne ran forward in its track, waving his arms. The man at the wheel looked over and braked. The big car did a double two way skid, tore serpentine ruts on the metalled road surface and stopped.
My train arrived at Waterloo this morning one minute ahead of time. It has put me out all day." The old gentleman lowered himself by sections into an elbow chair. "Heard from Cranbourne?" Barraclough shook his head. "Never expected you would," said Cassis shortly. "The whole scheme was waste of time. We don't live in Ruritania where doubles walk about arm in arm.
Goodnight." The door closed and a moment later came the sound of water splashing into the bath. "Well, what do you think?" Cranbourne demanded enthusiastically. "A nice boy," Mr. Torrington returned. "Straight. I'm wondering how much he will have to go through in the next three weeks." "Yes, but from our point of view?" "Ah, from our point of view I think we might declare a dividend.
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