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Widrington and Whitelock, the commissioners of the great seal, and Lenthall, master of the rolls, informed him by letter, that they had sought the Lord, but did not feel themselves free to act according to the ordinance. The protector took the seals from the two first, and gave them Fiennes and Lisle; Lenthall overcame his scruples, and remained in office.
Then he took the telegram out of his pocket which had been put into his hands as he reached the hotel, his mouth quivering again with the exultation which he had felt when he had received it. It recalled to his ranging memory all the details of his hurried interview with the little Widrington solicitor, who had already scented a job in the matter of Hurd's defence.
At Widrington, a porter entered, carrying a kit-bag, an overcoat, and some golf-clubs; and round the door a little group, such as may be seen at any English wayside station, clustered, filling the air with their clean, slightly drawling voices.
Moreover, she was aware of the inspector standing at the kitchen door and beckoning to her. She stole across to him so softly that Mrs. Hurd did not hear her. "We have found all we want," he said in his official tone, but under his breath "the clothes anyway. We must now look for the gun. Jenkins is first going to take him off to Widrington.
"We shall meet next week, I suppose, in the House?" said Wharton, casually. "Good-night." "Will you take me to the Court?" said Marcella to Aldous, directly the door of the carriage was shut upon them, and, amid a gaping crowd that almost filled the little market-place of Widrington, the horses moved off.
The deep-pitched words fell slowly on Marcella's ears, as she sat leaning forward in the gallery of the Widrington Assize Court. Women were sobbing beside and behind her. Minta Hurd, to her left, lay in a half-swoon against her sister-in-law, her face buried in Ann's black shawl.
While they were passing Widrington, he forced himself to an unnatural spurt of talk; and it was not till fully quarter of an hour later that, glancing stealthily round his paper, he saw her sitting motionless, her face turned to the fields and tears rolling down it. And he dared not speak, dared not try to comfort her.
By virtue of this act, the earl of Carnwath, the lords Widrington and Nairn, were immediately discharged; together with all the gentlemen under sentence of death in Newgate, and those that were confined on account of the rebellion in the Fleet, the Marshalsea, and other prisons of the kingdom.
"I remember everything." At that dreadful little saying, Winton leaned forward and put his lips to her hand, that lay outside the clothes. "Where is he buried?" "At Widrington." "Yes." It was rather a sigh than a word and, raising his head, Winton saw her eyes closed again.
The others followed suit, and they all took leave in character; Molloy, with an eager business reference to the order of the day for Saturday, "Give me your address at Widrington; I'll post you everything to-night, so that you may have it all under your eye" Casey, with the off-hand patronage of the man who would not for the world have his benevolence mistaken for servility, and Wilkins with as gruff a nod and as limp a shake of the hand as possible.
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