Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 29, 2025
Now, I have been thrown headlong into this case, and like all the rest of you, I am pretty well acquainted with it. And I take it that now that the murder of Ashton has been solved, the real question is what is the truth about the young lady who was certainly his ward?" "That is right!" exclaimed Mr. Pawle. "Carless and Lord Ellingham I am sure, agree with me."
There's no doubt about it, Viner this is a collection of letters written by the seventh Countess of Ellingham to her elder son, Lord Marketstoke, when he was at Eton." "How came they into Ashton's possession, I wonder!" asked Viner. "It's all of a piece!" exclaimed Mr. Pawle.
"Some business, my lord, which, I confess at once, is of extraordinary nature," answered the old lawyer. "I will go straight to it. Your lordship has doubtless read in the newspapers of the murder of a man named Ashton in Lonsdale Passage, in the Bayswater district?" Lord Ellingham glanced at a pile of newspapers which lay on a side-table. "Yes," he answered, "I have.
"You know what this really means to you?" he said. Lord Ellingham laughed. "Of course!" he answered. "Remember," continued Mr. Carless, with a knowing glance at Mr. Pawle, "you needn't give in without a struggle! You can make a big fight. You're in possession; it would take a long time to turn you out. You can have litigation as much as ever you wish.
"I don't anticipate any trouble in that quarter," answered Mr. Carless. "As I said to those two who have just gone out send or bring the man here, and we'll tell in one minute if he's what he claims to be!" "But how?" asked Lord Ellingham. "You seem very certain." "Dead certain!" asserted Mr. Carless. He looked round his callers and laughed. "I may as well tell you," he said.
Carless interrupted him by pointing toward Viner's house, of which they were now in sight. "I dare say our friend Viner, who has, as he says, been strangely mixed up in this strange affair, can manage matters," he said dryly. "And as things are, nothing could be better!" Viner took his companions back into his library, and opening a door, showed Lord Ellingham a small study which lay beyond.
He did not care the value of a brass button if Cave was Earl of Ellingham or Duke of Ditchmoor; his job was to keep his eye on him, whoever he was. And so when Viner and his party went round to Markendale Square, Millwaters slunk along in their rear, and at a corner of the Square he remained, lounging about, until his quarry reappeared.
"No, sir, because Lord Ellingham wasn't there he scarcely ever is there," replied Lucy Summers. "I mean that Mr. Ashton went into the park a good deal and looked over the house a good many people come to see Ellingham Park, sir." "Well, and what else?" asked Mr. Pawle. "Did he go to see people in the town at all?" "I don't know, sir but he was out most of the day.
No doubt he can bring further proof. That he did not come here in the first instance " "I'll tell you why I, personally, am very much surprised that he didn't," interrupted Mr. Carless. "You told Lord Ellingham yesterday that your client saw no end of advertisements for him at the time of his father's death.
Ellingham was anxious to get it," she finished. "He had taken Mr. Johnson's overcoat by mistake one night when you were both in the house, and the notes were in it. He saw that the stick was important." "Clara," Sperry asked, "did you see, the day you advertised for your bag, another similar advertisement?" "I saw it. It frightened me." "You have no idea who inserted it?" "None whatever."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking