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"We must proceed against that man Scrobby," said Glomax with all the authority of a Master. "You'll never convict him on Goarly's evidence," said the Lord. Then Larry could give them further information. Nickem had positively traced the purchase of the red herrings. An old woman in Rufford was ready to swear that she herself had sold them to Mrs. Scrobby.
If all we hear is true Miss Trefoil's Senator may have to defend both Scrobby and Goarly." "My Senator as you call him will be quite up to the occasion." "You knew him in America, Miss Trefoil?" asked Lady Penwether. "Oh yes. We used to meet him and Mrs. Gotobed everywhere.
It was the letter conveying the tidings of the legacy which Morton had made in her favour. Lord Rufford's Model Farm At this time Senator Gotobed was paying a second visit to Rufford Hall. In the matter of Goarly and Scrobby he had never given way an inch.
It would be his duty to say so in his lecture, and perhaps some good might be done to so gracious but so stolid a people, if only they could be got to listen. Scrobby had got down a barrister from London, and therefore the case was allowed to drag itself out through the whole day.
Bean, who had already heard of Bearside and had heard of Scrobby in connection with this matter, looked at the Senator very hard. He knew Bearside. The man certainly was not the attorney, and from what he had heard of Scrobby be didn't think he was Scrobby. The man was not like what in his imagination Scrobby would be. He did not know what to make of Mr.
Have you made an appointment before dawn with Mr. Scrobby under the elms? Now I look at you I believe in my heart you're a Goarlyite, only without the Senator's courage to tell me the truth beforehand." "I really am very much obliged to Goarly," said Arabella, "because it is so nice to have something to talk about."
"I suppose he got something." "What an idiot that man must be. Can you understand it, Mr. Masters?" They now entered the club and Goarly and Nickem and Scrobby were of course being discussed. "Is it true, Mr. Masters, that Scrobby is to be arrested?" asked Fred Botsey at once. "Upon my word I can't say, Mr. Botsey; but if you tell me it is so I shan't cry my eyes out"
Then Lord Rufford emphatically declared that such men as Scrobby and Goarly should be crushed, and the Senator, with an inward sigh declared that between landlord and tenant, between peer and farmer, between legislator and rustic, there was, in capacity for logical inference, no difference whatever. The British heart might be all right; but the British head was, ah, hopelessly wooden!
Master's office. But the Scrobby party in Rufford could not bring itself to believe that Nickem was correct. That Goarly's hand had actually placed the herrings no man either at Rufford or Dillsborough had doubted. Such was now Nickem's story. But of what avail would be the evidence of such a man as Goarly against such a man as Scrobby?
In Rufford there were not a few who thought that Lord Rufford's pheasants and foxes were a nuisance, though probably these persons had never suffered in any way themselves. It was a grand thing to fight a lord, and so Scrobby had a party.
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