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Come and sit here beside me, my friend. Val, dear, remain. Is this Inspector Aylesbury who wishes to speak to me?" The Inspector, who had entered with all the confidence in the world, seemed to lose some of it in the presence of this grand lady, who was so little impressed by the dignity of his office. She waved one slender hand in the direction of a violet brocaded chair.
I was engaged in making some extracts from these documents, when I found them so well abstracted in one of the papers published by the committee on this subject established at Aylesbury last year, by the humane exertions of Lord Nugent, that I am glad to quote the general results from its pages: "In 1843 a return was laid on the table of the House of the commitments and executions for murder in England and Wales during the thirty years ending with December 1842, divided into five periods of six years each.
"I am grateful, Mr. Harley, and I leave this unpleasant affair in your hands with every confidence." Camber stood up, bowing formally. The expression upon the inflamed face of Inspector Aylesbury was really indescribable, and recognizing his mental limitations, I was almost tempted to feel sorry for him. However, he did not lack self- confidence, and: "I suppose you have scored, Mr.
Consequences of the utmost magnitude may sometimes depend on the exercise of the right of suffrage by one or a few electors. Nobody was ever yet heard to contend, however, that on that account the public might take away the right, or impair it. This notion appears to be borrowed from no better source than the repudiated doctrine of the three judges in the Aylesbury case.
I would not take a cab, nor so much as hire a porter, who might afterwards serve as a link between my lodgings and the mail, and connect me again with the claret-coloured chaise and Aylesbury. The first step was to find lodgings, and to find them quickly. This was the more needful as Mr.
Harley surely knows that her husband is not guilty?" "I think he does," I replied, "but he may have great difficulty in proving it. And what else did Inspector Aylesbury wish to know?" "How can I tell you?" she said in a low voice; and biting her lip agitatedly she turned her head aside. "Perhaps I can guess." "Can you?" she asked, looking at me quickly.
He informed me that he also had received a similar communication from our colonel, Lord Bruce; that he knew of the dismissal which had been sent to me, and that it was a current report amongst the tools of Lord Aylesbury, at Marlborough, that we were dismissed from the troop, because we had shot so many pheasants on the first of October, upon one of his lordship's manors: what I meant to do on the subject, he was, he said, desirous to know, as he should like to go hand in hand with me; at the same time vowing vengeance against our colonel.
Wessex, very silent, came behind me, and Inspector Aylesbury, swearing under his breath, waded through the long grass at the rear. "Will you all turn your attention to the garden again, please?" cried Harley. We all paused, looking to the right. "Anything unusual?" We were agreed that there was not. "Very well," said my friend.
For Robin was not as lucky in getting back as his men had been, as you shall presently hear. After having left the great northern road, he turned his face to the westward, and so came past Aylesbury, to fair Woodstock, in Oxfordshire. Thence he turned his footsteps northward, traveling for a great distance by way of Warwick Town, till he came to Dudley, in Staffordshire.
I should like a few words with Mrs. Camber." "Very good." Colin Camber bent his head gravely, and gave an order to Ah Tsong, who turned and went out. "And what firearms have you in the house?" asked Inspector Aylesbury. "An early Dutch arquebus, which you see in the corner," was the reply. "That doesn't interest me. I mean up-to-date weapons." "And a Colt revolver which I have in a drawer here."
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