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He had Batley with him and the Crestwicks, who were down before. I think you met them?" "I did," assented Nasmyth. "In Canada they'd call them a mighty tough crowd; they're about the limit here." "I turned round after the car had passed," Millicent went on. "Marple was driving, as fast as usual, and he made no attempt to pull up.
Bell, who didn't hear, tried to jump and fell into the ditch; most of the sheep were scattered across the moor, but two or three got right in front of the car and at the last moment Marple had to stop.
There was an awkward silence for a few moments after they left the room; then Marple turned to his guests. "I can't undertake to say whether Lisle was justified or not," he began. "I'm sorry, however, that anything of this nature should have happened in my house." "So am I," said Gladwyne with gracious condescension. "There is, of course, one obvious remedy."
Lisle had seen the men gather about her, but it was those he thought least of who followed her most closely, and the women stood aloof. "There are Miss Marple and her mother, anyway; they're friends of yours," he pointed out. "Just so. Flo and I are in the same class, making the same fight; but that isn't always a reason for mutual appreciation or support. Mrs.
William Marple, the first of these criminals, was descended from parents of very tolerable fortune, as well as unblemished reputation. Their care had not only gone so far in providing him with useful and common learning, but had also been careful in bestowing on him an excellent education in schools both in town and country.
It recognized obligations on both sides, and there is a danger of forgetting them; the new people often fail to realize them at all. Marple I'm using him as an example bought the land for what he could get out of it." "About three per cent., he told me. It isn't a great inducement." Millicent made a half-disdainful gesture.
Who were his first companions in his robberies is not in my power to say; it was generally looked upon that one Rouden seduced him, but Marple declared this to be false, and perhaps the best account that can be given is that he was led to it by his own evil inclinations, and his necessities in which they had brought him.
They went on together through the shadowy, crimson-tinted dale until Millicent stopped at the gate of a field-road. "I am going to one of the cottages yonder," she explained. "I expect Nasmyth on Wednesday evening. Are you coming with him?" "I'm sorry, but I'm going to Marple's. You see, I promised." "Promised Marple?"
Jim's going to Canada and Bella to Sussex. I understand from Marple that it will be some time before she visits us again." Millicent was glad to hear it, but she made no comment. "It's unreasonable to blame Lisle," Gladwyne went on; "though he did make some unpleasantness with Batley; but I have had so many annoyances and troubles since he arrived.
"She says Carew I don't think you've seen him is anxious to marry her, and if she's convinced that I'm getting on satisfactorily, she'll probably agree. He's I'm quoting about as good as she's likely to get; that's Bella all over." "What's he like?" Lisle asked with interest. "To tell the truth, in one way I think she's right the man's straight; not the Marple crowd's style.
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