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I will go and see Lord Essendine myself." "Pardon me, madam; I fear that is out of the question. He is in Scotland, living in retirement. Lady Essendine's health has failed greatly under recent afflictions." "He must and shall know how I am situated."

Colonel Wilders could not bring himself to ask any favours of his unsympathetic kinsman. Nevertheless, it was through Lord Essendine's interest that he obtained a snug staff appointment in one of the large garrison towns; and he did not return indignantly the very handsome cheque paid in by his cousin to his account as a wedding present.

You had my letter?" "Pshaw! Hippolyte, you can't befool me." "Why this tone? I tell you I have done everything." "You may think so, but in the meantime Rupert has stolen a march on me. He has got the papers " "Impossible!" "It is so. Got them, and placed them, with a full statement, in Lord Essendine's hands." "How do you know this?" "From Lord Essendine's own lips?" "How can he have done this?

On the evening of the third day, however that, in fact, following Gascoigne's visit to the Mairie she had a short letter from Lincoln's Inn. Lord Essendine's lawyers wrote her, begging she would call on them early next day, as they had an important communication to make to her.

Telegrams came and went from London to Vienna, from Vienna to St. Petersburg, backwards and forwards day after day, yet nothing was effected by Lord Essendine's anxious, energetic advocacy. The Czar himself was appealed to, but the Autocrat of All the Russias would not deign to intervene. He was inexorable. The law military must take its course.