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Burman Radnor; an event that occurred, according to Jarniman's report, forty-five minutes after Skepsey had a second time called for information of it at the house in Regent's Park five hours and a half, as Colney made his calculation, after the death of Nataly. He was urged by some spur of senseless irony to verify the calculation and correct it in the minutes. Dudley crossed the road.
Margaret had already taken a little house in Radnor Square, Westminster, before our marriage, a house that seemed particularly adaptable to our needs as public-spirited efficients; it had been very pleasantly painted and papered under Margaret's instructions, white paint and clean open purples and green predominating, and now we set to work at once upon the interesting business of arranging and with our Venetian glass as a beginning furnishing it.
Such a wine, in its capturing permeation of us, insists on being for a time a theme. 'I wonder! said Mr. Radnor, completely restored, eyeing his half-emptied second glass and his boon-fellow. 'Low! Mr. Fenellan shook his head. 'Half a dozen dozen left? 'Nearer the half of that. And who's the culprit? 'Old days! They won't let me have another dozen out of the house now.
Gestures and heaven-sent eyeballs invoke to display the ineffable. Where was Durandarte now? Gone; already gone; off with the Luciani for evening engagements; he came simply to oblige his dear friend Mr. Radnor. Cheque fifty guineas: hardly more on both sides than an exchange of smiles. Ah, these merchant-princes! What of Mr. Radnor's amateur instrumentalists?
"Now, how soon did the ghost appear again?" "Various things were stolen after that, and the servants attributed it to the ha'nt, but the first direct knowledge I had was the night of the party when Radnor acted so strangely. I told you of his going back in the night." "He was carrying something too?" "Yes, he had a black bundle it might have been clothes."
But you later went to the office of Jacoby, Haight & Co., and looked over the files of their correspondence with Radnor Gaylord and verified his statement in every particular, did you not?" "Yes, I did, but still " "That is all I wish to ask, Mr. Clancy. I think the reason is evident," I added, turning to the jury, "why I was willing to pay in order to get rid of him.
Whenever I have asked any of the intimate friends about the principals in the case, I have been told enough to inform me that the intimate friends know as little as I do, and don't guess anything about it, at all. Oh, it's a fine mix-up! But just where the trouble is located, I can't make out." "Put me wise, Radnor, and let me help you.
I didn't believe it, but just the same it is not a story which you can afford to have even whispered." Radnor raised his head sharply. "Ah, I see!" His eyes wavered a moment and then fixed themselves miserably on my face. "Has has Polly Mathers heard that?" "Yes," I returned, "I fancy she has." He struck the table with a quick flash of anger. "It's a damned lie! And it comes from Jim Mattison."
"He does, does he? Well he can prove it!" Radnor broke away from me and strode toward the summer house. The detective received his onslaught placidly; his manner suggested that he was used to dealing with excitable young men. "Sit down, Mr. Gaylord, and let's discuss this matter quietly. If you listen to reason, I assure you it will go no further."
Radnor at times seemed possessed of the very devil of perversity; and if he ever drank or gambled, it was as much to assert his independence as for any other reason. There were days when he and his father were barely on speaking terms. Life at the plantation, however, was for the most part easy-going and flexible, as is likely to be the case in a bachelor establishment.
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