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"This is funny," said Peter Pigeoncote to his wife, some half-hour after their conversation; "here's a telegram from Wilfrid, saying he's passing through here in his motor, and would like to stop and pay us his respects. Can stay for the night if it doesn't inconvenience us. Signed 'Wilfrid Pigeoncote. Must be the Snatcher; none of the others have a motor.
"I'll never open your letters again," she promised. And Clovis has no more devoted slave than Bertie Heasant. "I suppose we shall never see Wilfred Pigeoncote here now that he has become heir to the baronetcy and to a lot of money," observed Mrs. Peter Pigeoncote regretfully to her husband.
Lady Ernestine Pigeoncote, his mother, moved in circles which were entirely beyond their compass or ambitions, and the son would probably one day be an Ambassador. And they had rifled and despoiled his portmanteau! Husband and wife looked blankly and desperately at one another. It was Mrs. Peter who arrived first at an inspiration. "How dreadful to think there are thieves in the house!
Wilfrid Pigeoncote had suddenly become heir to his uncle, Sir Wilfrid Pigeoncote, on the death of his cousin, Major Wilfrid Pigeoncote, who had succumbed to the after-effects of a polo accident. And the reputation was an unpleasant one.
"Brave little woman," said Peter, with a gasp of relief; "I could never have done it." Diplomatic reticence does not necessarily extend to family affairs. Peter Pigeoncote was never able to understand why Mrs.
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