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'Why, my dear, just at present Mr Karswell is a very angry man. But I don't know much about him otherwise, except that he is a person of wealth, his address is Lufford Abbey, Warwickshire, and he's an alchemist, apparently, and wants to tell us all about it; and that's about all except that I don't want to meet him for the next week or two. Now, if you're ready to leave this place, I am.
So Mrs Secretary had already settled it in her own mind that she would question them judiciously about Mr Karswell. But she was saved the trouble of leading up to the subject, for the hostess said to the host, before many minutes had passed, 'I saw the Abbot of Lufford this morning. The host whistled. 'Did you?
At last he produced a series which represented a little boy passing through his own park Lufford, I mean in the evening. Every child in the room could recognize the place from the pictures.
He waited with inexpressible anxiety as May, June, and early July passed on, for a mandate from Harrington. But all this time Karswell remained immovable at Lufford. At last, in less than a week before the date he had come to look upon as the end of his earthly activities, came a telegram: 'Leaves Victoria by boat train Thursday night. Do not miss. I come to you to-night. Harrington.
What in the world brings him up to town? 'Goodness knows; he was coming out of the British Museum gate as I drove past. It was not unnatural that Mrs Secretary should inquire whether this was a real Abbot who was being spoken of. 'Oh no, my dear: only a neighbour of ours in the country who bought Lufford Abbey a few years ago.
Well, now, that's Mr Karswell: that's the Abbot of Lufford, my dear, and you can imagine how we covet his society. 'Yes, I think he has all the possibilities of a distinguished criminal, has Karswell, said the host. 'I should be sorry for anyone who got into his bad books. 'Is he the man who brought out a History of Witchcraft some time back ten years or more?
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