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"You've made me feel like a new man," he said. "How can I thank you for all you have done?" "The only way you can show your gratitude is by instructing Mr. Oakham to lodge an appeal for you at once. Have you the necessary forms with you, Mr. Oakham?" "I have," said the solicitor, finding voice after a long silence. Mr.
Instances of some of the most celebrated dwarfs will be cited with a short descriptive mention of points of interest in their lives: Vladislas Cubitas, who was King of Poland in 1305, was a dwarf, and was noted for his intelligence, courage, and as a good soldier. Geoffrey Hudson, the most celebrated English dwarf, was born at Oakham in England in 1619.
As they did not feel inclined to face the ordeal of public scrutiny after the events of the day they are dining in private, and they have asked me to take you to their room when you are at liberty. Mr. Oakham has gone to Norwich, where he will stay for some days to prepare the defence of this unhappy young man, but he is coming here in the morning to see the ladies before they depart for London.
Oakham, of Oakham and Pendules, Temple Gardens, was a little white-haired man of seventy, attired in the sombre black of the Victorian era, with a polished reticent manner befitting the senior partner of a firm of solicitors owning the most aristocratic practice in England; a firm so eminently respectable that they never rendered a bill of costs to a client until he was dead, when the amount of legal expenses incurred during his lifetime was treated as a charge upon the family estate, and deducted from the moneys accruing to the next heir, who, in his turn, was allowed to run his allotted course without a bill from Oakham and Pendules.
Oakham turned to him with an eagerness which he did not attempt to conceal, and said: "Now for your news, Mr. Colwyn. But, first, where shall we talk?" "As well here as anywhere. There is nobody within hearing." The solicitor followed his glance round the almost empty dining-room, and nodded acquiescence. Drawing his chair a little nearer the detective, he begged him to begin.
"I am returning to London by the afternoon express, Mr. Colwyn," said the solicitor. "I should be glad if you could spare me a little of your time before I go." "Certainly," replied Colwyn, courteously. "It had better be at once, had it not? You have not very much time at your disposal." "If it does not inconvenience you," replied Mr. Oakham politely. "But your lunch "
We can go together from here to the gaol, if that will suit you." "That will suit me excellently. And before that interview takes place I should be glad if you would tell me the facts of Penreath's engagement to Miss Willoughby." "I really know very little about it," said Mr. Oakham, looking somewhat surprised at the question.
Oakham had a firm belief in the interposition of Providence particularly in the affairs of the families of the great. "And that is the reason for my coming over here to see you this morning, Mr. Colwyn. You were present at the breakfast table scene you witnessed this young man's eccentricity and violence.
Oakham's object was to urge his client to consent to the lodgement of an appeal against the jury's verdict, and to that end he advanced a multitude of arguments and a variety of reasons. The young man listened patiently, but when the solicitor had concluded he shook his head with a gesture of finality which indicated an unalterable refusal. "It's no use, Oakham," he said.
The warder who had brought the visitors in then nodded to Mr. Oakham, as an indication that the interview might begin. In the brief glance that the young man cast at his visitors Colwyn observed both calmness of mind and self-possession.
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