United States or Monaco ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
This was Saturday, and on Monday I received a telegram from him, requesting me to come to town. It was important. Of course I went, and the three of us adjourned to the empty room. "I am sorry to bring you off the Beverley affair, Wigan, but I think we ought to settle this pierrot business." "Then you have formed a theory?" "Oh, yes, and it is for you to prove whether I am right or wrong.
That seems to me to be an abominable proposal, likely to lead to something worse than Wigan and all those miserable English towns your father dislikes so heartily. And probably, of all his proposals, it is the most likely to succeed. That's why I'm opposed to him at present. I cannot bear the thought of seeing England duplicated in Ireland.
Hereafter, I shall try to acquaint myself more deeply and widely with the relations of life amongst the working people there. I had not seen Wigan during many years before that fine August afternoon.
"And you have good reasons for expecting to run him to earth at Fairtown?" "Excellent reasons," I answered. "Wigan, get some one who knows Beverley to go and look at the dead pierrot. The result might be interesting." It was. Quarles admitted that the idea was a leap in the dark, but he pointed out that the dead man was the type he imagined Beverley to be. The fact remains he was right.
From the same station a circuitous route through Wigan and Bolton, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, opens a second road to Manchester, and affords a complete communication with the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire. On the roads to London it is not now necessary to treat.
"Yes yes, I think you are right," he said after a pause. "What do you advise?" "Delay," said the professor promptly. "They are out for money, for a quarter of a million. They will not hurt Miss Wilkinson while there is any chance of their getting the money." "How long would you make the delay?" Cayley asked. "At least until after Mr. Wigan and I have visited Whiteladies again.
On our way, we could not help noticing the unusual number of foot-sore, travel-soiled people, many of them evidently factory operatives, limping away from the town upon their melancholy wanderings. We could see, also, by the number of decrepid old women, creeping towards Wigan, and now and then stopping to rest by the wayside, that it was relief day at the Board of Guardians.
I believe the secret of the poison used is forgotten, but you may read of it in books relating to the Vatican of old days and concerning the old families of Italy. I might mention the Borgias particularly. So you see my difficulty, Wigan. The crime literally reeked of Italy, and we had two Italians amongst our dramatis personae." "A significant fact," I said.
Wigan, my confederates and all who could possibly witness against me will be on board this yacht. How long some of them will remain on board I have not yet decided." She was evidently not afraid. Her plans must be very complete. "As I cannot be allowed to live, a sketch of your career would interest me. It would serve to pass the time."
"When does he return?" asked Quarles. "I don't know. I haven't had a line from him since he went away, but the sum I have received for him in rent doesn't amount to much, I can tell you." I expected to find the professor rather ill-tempered at my interference, but I found him inclined to raillery. "Are you hunting a murderer or a ghost, Wigan?" he asked.
Word Of The Day