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Updated: June 21, 2025
That was something like a summer, as the saying is, and for once they could say it even on the bleak northern spurs of the Delverton Hills.
Therefore to put the cart before the horse you would suit me ideally. One's own life would be unaltered, but the Delverton mothers would cease from troubling, and at the head of my establishment there would be a lady of whom I should be most justly proud. And even in my own life I should, I hope, be the more than occasional gainer by her society; may I also add, by her sympathy, by her advice?
The Delverton air was strong and bracing enough, but the patron wind of the district bit to the bone through garments never intended for winter wear. On such a day there could be few more undesirable abodes than Normanthorpe House, with its marble floors, its high ceilings, and its general scheme of Italian coolness and discomfort. It was a Tuesday, when Mr.
These are its heroes and its villains. All you hear from London is what the last man spent when he was up, and where he dined; and from all I can gather, the Tichborne trial made less impression down here than that of a Delverton parson who got into trouble about the same time." "They must have heard of my trial," said Rachel, in a low voice.
Send me along a full report, it may bring me back to Chelsea, but I am so keen to put another fifty yards on to my drive that I may remain here for three months. Why live in Chelsea when there is such a place as Devonshire?" I remembered that the Delverton case had caused a considerable amount of excitement at the time, and had remained an unsolved mystery, but I knew no more than this.
I hunted up one or two points which occurred to me, and then went to Austin Friars to call upon Mr. Delverton. He was out of town, yachting, but his partner came into the clerks' office to see me. I told him that my business with Mr. Delverton was private. This partner, I discovered, was Kellner, who had formerly been a clerk in the firm.
The offices consist of a large outer room, which accommodates seven or eight clerks, and two private rooms opening into one another, but opening into the outer office only from the first room. This first room, which is the larger of the two, the brothers Delverton occupied, Farrell having the smaller inner room.
"But not now, eh?" And Delverton filled our glasses and his own. "Of course not. My second belief is that Farrell did not leave the office at all that day. We have only your word for it, you know." "Shall we drink to your clearer judgment?" said Delverton. I had raised my glass when Quarles cried out and tossed a spoon across the table at me. "So you don't drink, Mr.
The Northborough which, you will observe, it is 'near' a good four miles, as a matter of fact is the well-known centre of the Delverton iron-trade. But you may very well have spent a year in this country without having heard of it; they would be shocked at Northborough, but nowhere else." Rachel had dropped the card into her lap; she was looking straight at Mr. John Buchanan Steel himself.
Now supposing Farrell had been playing with the firm's money unknown to his partners, or perchance unknown only to one of them yourself. Your brother may have " "Really, Mr. Quarles, you are getting absurd." "I was going to say " "Oh, please, let me stop you before you say anything more foolish," said Delverton. "At that time my brother was very ill and as weak as a rat.
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