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We passed through a considerable extent of private road, and finally drove over a lawn, studded with trees and closely shaven, till we reached the door of Poulton Hall. Part of the mansion is three or four hundred years old; another portion is about a hundred and fifty, and still another has been built during the present generation.
"It is a point to remember that she ran out exactly at the moment Poulton was passing, which may have been chance, of course, but from that room over the hall one can see down the drive and, by the light of a street lamp, some way down the road. Had any one watched there he could have prompted the girl when to start."
"I don't believe either exit or entrance was made by this window," I declared. "Have you still got servants in your mind, Wigan?" "I have, to tell the truth I always have had." "The body is our best clue, Wigan. If we can identify that we shall be nearing the end." And then Quarles turned to Poulton. "Isn't there a nephew in the house? We haven't seen him."
E.B. Poulton, 1896; various short Lives by Grant Allen and others.
He had invited us to dine; but I misunderstood him, and thought he only intended to give us a drive. Poulton Hall is about three miles from Rock Ferry, the road passing through some pleasant rural scenery, and one or two villages, with houses standing close together, and old stone or brick cottages, with thatched roofs, and now and then a better mansion, apart among trees.
Among them a bazaar at Badsey realized £130; another, later, at Aldington in one of my old barns, £80; and two concerts afternoon and evening at Malvern, organized by my wife and her sister, Miss Poulton, £100. The Vicar received a notable letter from the late Lord Salisbury, the Premier; they had been at Eton and Christ Church together, and Lord Salisbury was godfather to the Vicar's eldest son.
Smithers who lived in the next house to Clarence Lodge; he was coming from the direction of the station and said good night. Since then he had seen no one upon his beat. Poulton described the position of the dead man graphically and minutely. He had no doubt he had been shot a few minutes before he saw him.
Christmas was barely over before the lady with whom Miss Harris was staying found it her duty to communicate to Edward Harris the fact that dear Dora's charming friendship she was sure it was nothing more with the young artist Mrs. Poulton believed Mr. Harris would understand who was meant was exciting a good deal of comment in the station, and WOULD dear Mr.
A gentle smile illuminated Mr Cupples's face. 'You must not suspect me of empty paradox, he said. 'My meaning will become clearer, perhaps, if I mention some things which do appear to me essentially remarkable. Let me see .... Well, I would call the life history of the liver-fluke, which we owe to the researches of Poulton, an essentially remarkable thing.
"England," said Poulton, the Canadian-born, "is a dangerous country to live in; you run such risks of growing old." They agreed, I fear, for more reasons than this that England was a good country to leave early; and you cannot blame them there was not one of them who did not offer in his actual person proof of what he said. Their own dividing chance grew dramatic in their eyes.
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