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Updated: June 22, 2025
You must live near here or you wouldn't be chasing horses about this road." "I live at a place called Corven Abbey." "What Corven Abbey? Why, that's where I'm going." "Jimmy! Oh, I see. You're Spennie's friend. But where is Spennie?" "At the abbey by now. He went in the auto with his uncle and aunt." "How did you meet Spennie?"
So he proceeded to fix that eye. "Yes, I must be seeing Harding about getting the rooms ready. Spennie's friend is bringing his man with him." "Who is his friend?" "He doesn't say. He just says he's a man he met in London." "H'm!" "And what does that grunt mean, I should like to know? I believe you've begun to suspect the poor man already, without seeing him." "I don't say I have.
This was good, but he aimed still higher; and, meeting Spennie's aunt, Lady Julia Coombe-Crombie, just at the moment when, financially, the Dreevers were at their lowest ebb, he had effected a very satisfactory deal by marrying her, thereby becoming, as one might say, Chairman of Dreever, L't'd.
There is a good deal to be said against stealing as a habit; but it cannot he denied that, in certain circumstances, it offers an admirable solution of a difficulty, and if the penalties were not so exceedingly unpleasant, it is probable that it would become far more fashionable than it is. Spennie's mind did not turn immediately to this outlet from his embarrassment.
Spennie's idea had been to get through his burglarious specialty during the monologue, when his absence would not be noticed. It might be that if he disappeared later in the evening people would wonder what had become of him. He lurked apart till the last of the audience had taken their seats. As he was passing through the hall, a hand fell on his shoulder. Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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