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Updated: June 21, 2025
"You looked simply great especially towards the end," whispered Morna Woodgate in the drawing-room, for she alone knew how nervous Rachel had been about what was indeed her social debut in Delverton. The aquiline lady also had a word to say.
Purposely I gave you no bias when I asked you to gather up the known facts, and from your report I judge you have come to the conclusion that Farrell committed suicide, possibly driven into a corner by some international complication." "Yes, on the whole, I lean to that idea." "It is not the belief of Mr. Delverton himself." "How do you know?" I asked. "I met Martin Delverton in Devonshire.
What a place for a sane man to build in bleak old Delverton, even before there was any Northborough to blacken and foul the north-east wind on its way from the sea! What a place for a sane man to buy; and yet, in its cool white smoothness, its glaring individuality, its alien air how like the buyer!
It is only right to say that Kellner was not generally believed to have known that Farrell had been done to death by his uncle. Quarles believes he was absolutely innocent in this respect. I am doubtful on the point, I admit. The dramatic suicide of Martin Delverton, and the solution of a mystery which had been relegated to the list of undiscovered crimes produced a sensation.
Now he was a wealthy man, but three years ago he had been in very low water. This discovery sent me to Twickenham again. I said nothing about Kellner having become a partner in Delverton Brothers'; I merely asked Southey whether he had satisfactorily accounted for his time on the fatal night. "Didn't I tell you?" said Southey. "Oh, yes, he had an absolute alibi; so had the youth Small.
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