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She made him comfortable; she surrounded him with the brightest people she could find; he was not allowed to mope indoors, and Sir Stuart Fernborough and his sprightly American wife attended all the important social functions of the County, and many in London, and at the houses of their friends. And now a great joy was to come to Lady Fernborough.
It was decided by the committee to have a reception in the Selectmen's room. It was conveniently arranged for such a purpose, having a door at either end, besides the double one near the middle. At the request of Selectman and Toastmaster Strout, the Governor and his wife and the Countess of Sussex, formerly Lindy Putnam, stood in line to greet the citizens of Fernborough.
Fernborough Hall, not a hall in the town of Fernborough in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but a rambling, old-fashioned brick building in the County of Sussex in "Merrie England;" a stately home set in the middle of hundreds of acres of upland, lowland, and woodland.
'I know nothing about annuity offices, but I know that almost everybody dies who goes to those countries; look at young Fernborough, he was just Tancred's age; the fevers alone must kill him. 'He must take some quinine in his dressing-case, said Lord Eskdale. 'You jest, Henry, said the duchess, disappointed, 'when I am in despair.
Robert Wood lived in Fernborough, and from the day of his arrest I have been much interested in the case, and with the help of my father and a friend of mine, Quincy Adams Sawyer, the son of the former governor, I have been trying to find the man who murdered Mr. Ellicott, for I have never believed that Robert Wood was the guilty person."
"He said he was going to Fernborough to see your father, and I availed myself of the opportunity to mention my acquaintance with you. He wished you could come and see him." "Where is he? Of course I will go." "He is staying with Mr. Larned, my college mate's father, who lives in Jamaica Plain, but he will not be there until this evening.
Beers the auctioneer whose once rotund voice had now become thin and quavering, sold off the remaining stock and the fixtures. Then the curtains were pulled down and the door locked. The next day Mr. and Mrs. Strout and family left town. "What's become of Strout?" Quincy asked his son, who had just returned from Fernborough. Another month had passed since the auction sale.
Robert Wood, Jr., a native of the adjoining town of Fernborough, has been arrested and held without bail. Young Wood has been an employee at the mill, but had aspired to the hand of Mr. Ellicott's only daughter Mabel. Mr. Ellicott was firmly opposed to the match, and, with the view, probably, of forcing the young man to leave the city, had discharged him from his employ. Mr.
He's attending a religious conference this afternoon and goes to Fernborough early to-morrow." "Then I can't see him." "Why not? I'm going out this evening small party invited entirely informal half my auto is at your service." "Will you get me back to the hotel before the doors are closed? I shall pack up to-morrow." "I promise," said Quincy. "I will come for you at seven sharp."
Strout's brother-in-law, could not get printers in Fernborough, and, being an Eastborough-born boy, his paper had a large circulation in that town and in Westvale, its principal village. Quincy obtained some copies of the paper containing his speech at the Town Hall. On looking it over he was astonished to find it reported verbatim. "How did you manage it, Mr. Chisholm?
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