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Updated: June 7, 2025
He's not in the house now, for he could only be in your lordship's bedroom or dressing-room, and we have searched every inch of both." Lord Thornaby turned to us when the inspector had retreated, caressing his peaked cap. "I told him to clear up these points first," he explained, jerking his head toward the door. "I had reason to think my man had been neglecting his duties up there.
Lord Thornaby smiled grimly on the rest of us, when he had nodded and dismissed the author like a hound from the leash. "It's a good thing we know something about our friend Parrington," said my lord. "He takes more kindly to all this than I do, I can tell you." "It's grist to his mill," said Raffles charitably. "Exactly! We shall have the whole thing in his next book."
"Messires," said he, "you were wise, methinks, to mount and away ere the night fall. To-night, since the moon is hid, 'twill be very dark amid the trees, therefore let Orson guide you he is forest-bred and well knoweth the way to Thornaby. Heaven prosper you, for in your valiant keeping is the safety of of our noble lady Abbess and her ladies.
There was more conviction in this sally than in that of our noble host; but this I attributed to the trained and skilled dissimulation of the bar. Lord Thornaby, however, was not to be amused by the elaboration of his own idea, and it was with some asperity that he called upon the butler, now solemnly superintending the removal of the cloth. "Leggett!
"You may say it was a rum place to keep 'em," continued Lord Thornaby. "But where would you gentlemen stable your white elephants? And these were elephants as white as snow; by Jove, I'll job them for the future!"
As a matter of fact, Lord Thornaby left his dressing-room one minute, his valet followed him the minute after, and I entered the minute after that." "Through the window?" "To be sure. I was waiting below in the garden. You have to pay for your garden in town, in more ways than one. You know the wall, of course, and that jolly old postern? The lock was beneath contempt."
His cheek against the pane, he was pointing slightly downward and very much aslant through a long lane of mews to a little square light like a yellow tile at the end. But I had opened the window and leaned out before I saw it for myself. "You don't mean to say that's Thornaby House?" I was not familiar with the view from my back windows. "Of course I do, you rabbit!
"Did you know anything about him, then?" inquired Lord Thornaby. "I led for the Crown," replied the barrister, with a twinkle. "You might almost say that I measured the poor man's neck." The point must have been quite unpremeditated; it was not the less effective for that. Lord Thornaby looked askance at the callous silk.
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