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Then, to save her the effort of speaking, he went on: "Of course you'd like him discharged at once. The sooner these people understand that their excitement about Lord Loudwater's death is not going to be held an excuse for telling lying stories the better. You will not be troubled by any more of them." Olivia looked at him with steady eyes. She had recovered herself and was thinking hard. Mr.
Have you any reason to believe that there was any other woman in Lord Loudwater's life anything in the nature of an intrigue? It's not a pleasant question to have to ask, but it's really important." "Oh, I don't expect any pleasantness where Lord Loudwater is concerned," said Olivia, with a sudden almost petulant impatience, for this inquisition was a much more severe strain on her than Mr.
The inspector had learned from her that the Lord Loudwater had paid a visit to her lodger the evening before, and that they had quarrelled fiercely. Mr. Flexen heard her story and questioned her. The important point in it seemed to him to be Lord Loudwater's threats to hound Colonel Grey out of the Army. Mrs. Turnbull left him plenty to ponder. Mr.
I know that mine will be on it, and Lady Loudwater's, who used it to cut the leaves of a volume of poetry the day before yesterday, and Hutchings', who cut the string of a parcel of books with it yesterday, and very likely the fingerprints of Lord Loudwater. You know how it is with a knife like that, which lies open and handy. Every one uses it.
When you questioned me about my doings on the night of Loudwater's death, you asked me whether I heard him snore as I went through the library, going in and out of the Castle, and for reasons which seemed quite good to me at the time I told you I didn't. As a matter of fact, he was snoring like a pig when I came out." Mr. Flexen looked at him hard, thinking quickly.
Since the advertisement the papers had given her had failed to produce that information he had a London detective working on the life in London, before his marriage, of the murdered man. Mr. Carrington had found nothing among Lord Loudwater's papers in the office of his firm to throw any light on the matter.
Three months later, on the first night of Mr. Manley's play, Colonel Grey came upon Mr. Flexen in the lounge of the Haymarket, between the second and third acts. Both of them praised the play warmly, and there came a pause. Then Colonel Grey said: "I suppose you've given up all hope of solving the problem of Loudwater's death." "Oh, I solved it three months ago. It was Manley," said Mr. Flexen.
By the way, is there anything in the way of insanity in Lady Loudwater's family?" "No, I never heard of any, and I should have been almost certain to hear if there were any," said the lawyer in some surprise. "That's all right," said Mr. Flexen. "By the way, how did you get on with the newspaper men?" said the lawyer.
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