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'G d d n! Stanway exclaimed distinctly, with fierce annoyance. He had fallen headlong into the hall, and his silk hat could be heard hopping towards the staircase. 'Pa! 'Milly protested, shocked. John sprang up, fuming, turned the gas on to the full, and rushed back to the doorway. 'Ah! he shouted. 'I knew it was a tramp lying there. Get up. Is the beggar asleep?
This will is dated twelve years ago, the lawyer stopped to explain. He continued: "I further bequeath to my great-nephew Frederick Wellington Ryley the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds." 'Something for you there, Frederick Wellington Ryley! exclaimed Stanway in a frigid tone, biting his thumb and looking up at the ceiling. Ryley blushed.
And let me tell you there's a lot of business done through London between the United States and the Continent, in glass and fancy goods. 'Oh, yes, I know there is, Stanway conceded. 'And so you think you're going to teach the old country a thing or two? 'That depends. 'On what? 'On whether the old country's made up her mind yet to sit down and learn. He laughed.
"Don't make an unnecessary trouble of it," he said. "I see a decanter on your sideboard let me give you a little brandy and water. Come, there's nothing criminal, I believe, in a man's breaking open his own desk, or his own trap-door, for that matter. Of course I'm acting for Lord Stanway in this affair, and I must, in duty, report to him without reserve.
The next day Ethel had a further reprieve of several hours, for Stanway said that he must go over to Hanbridge in the morning, and would come back to Hillport for dinner, and escort Ethel to the works immediately afterwards. None asked a question, but everyone knew that he could only be going to Hanbridge to consult with David Dain. This time the programme was in fact executed.
Claridge certainly my own is that anything like a suspicion of your position in this wretched matter is ridiculous. And if you will only consider the matter calmly " "Consider it calmly? Imagine yourself considering such a thing calmly, Lord Stanway. I won't consider it calmly. I'll I'll I won't have it. And if I find another man on my roof, I'll pitch him off!" And Mr.
Experts considered it probably to be the work of Athenion, a famous gem-cutter of the first Christian century, whose most notable other work now extant is a smaller cameo, with a mythological subject, preserved in the Vatican. The Stanway Cameo had been discovered in an obscure Italian village by one of those traveling agents who scour all Europe for valuable antiquities and objects of art.
'What of it? said Stanway. 'I've forgotten all the details. Fifteen years since, you know. 'Yes. But it's on behalf of my sister, and I haven't been over before. Besides, it wasn't till she heard I was coming to England that she asked me. 'Well, said Stanway. 'Of course I was the sole executor, and it's my duty 'That's it, Twemlow broke in. 'That's what makes it a little awkward.
He dwelt specially on the more odious aspects of Stanway's character, and swore that, had Stanway forty womenfolk instead of four, he, Arthur Twemlow, should still do his obvious duty of finishing what he had begun. In chatting with his host after tea, he marked his own attitude with much care, and though Stanway pretended not to observe it, he knew that Stanway observed it well enough.
Once or twice Lord Stanway glanced at his face, but refrained from disturbing him. Presently, however, he observed: "You seem, at least, Mr. Hewitt, to have noticed something that has set you thinking. Does it look like a clue?" Hewitt came out of his cogitation at once. "A clue?" he said; "the case bristles with clues.
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