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Updated: June 28, 2025
"The leather case has been found, I am pleased to be able to tell you, Lord Stanway, since you left." "Empty, of course?" "Unfortunately, yes. It had evidently been thrown away by the thief behind a chimney-stack a roof or two away, where the police have found it. But it is a clue, of course." "Ah, then this gentleman will give me his opinion of it," Lord Stanway said, turning to Hewitt.
'Who's been drinking whisky? was Stanway's only reply as he glanced at the table. 'Harry brought the girls home. I dare say he had some. I didn't notice, she said. 'H'm! Stanway muttered gloomily, 'he's young enough to start that game. 'I'll see it isn't offered to him again, if you like, said Leonora. 'But I want to tell you something, Jack.
Stanway's principles, schemes, methods, even her trifling dodges, were mentioned with deep respect by the ladies of Hillport, who often expressed their astonishment that, although the wheels of Mrs. Stanway's household revolved with perfect smoothness, Mrs. Stanway herself appeared never to be doing anything. That astonishment was Leonora's pride.
He forgot that he had hated his father, and his mind was obsessed by a sentimental and pure passion for justice. 'Say! Mr. Myatt, he exclaimed with sudden gruffness, 'do you suggest that John Stanway didn't do my father right? 'My lad, I'm doing no suggesting.... You can keep the book if you've a mind to.
The success of the opera, and of that chit Millicent Stanway, formed the staple of the eager conversation, though here and there a sober couple would be discussing the tramcars or the quinquennial assessment exactly as if Gilbert and Sullivan had never been born.
And am I to understand, my lord" turning to Lord Stanway "that these things are being done with your approval?" "Whatever is being done," Lord Stanway answered, "is being done by the police on their own responsibility, and entirely without prompting, I believe, by Mr. Claridge certainly without a suggestion of any sort from myself. I think that the personal opinion of Mr.
I have only now to beg that you will use your best influence with Lord Stanway to save me from public derision and exposure. I will do anything -pay anything anything but exposure, at my age, and with my position."
'Yes, he said, 'I met your husband on St. Luke's Square. But I heard something before that. At one o'clock, a man told me at Knype Station that Mr. Myatt had cut his throat on your doorstep. I didn't believe it. So I called up Twemlow & Stanway over the 'phone and got on to the facts. 'What things people say! she exclaimed.
John Stanway had called at the chemist's in the Market Place and had given a circumstantial description of an accident to Bran. It appeared that while Carpenter was washing the waggonette, Bran being loose in the stable-yard, the groom had suddenly slipped the lever of the carriage-jack and the off hind wheel had caught Bran's hind leg and snapped it like a piece of wood.
"Well, you see," Hewitt replied thoughtfully, "I've no doubt Lord Stanway will show you every consideration, and certainly I will do what I can to save you in the circumstances; though you must remember that you have done some harm you have caused suspicions to rest on at least one honest man. But as to reputation, I've a professional reputation of my own.
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