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Lord Loudwater had certainly been disturbed by the woman with whom he had quarrelled. He might have slept on late. But why had Lady Loudwater lied about the snoring? What did she know? What on earth was she hiding? Whom was she screening? Could it be Colonel Grey? Was he mixed up in the actual murder? Mr.
He had had the cheering thought that he had the Loudwater case, if ever it should come to a trial, wholly in his hands. He had but to remember having heard Lord Loudwater snore at, say, a few minutes to twelve, to break it down. He did not conceive that he would encounter any difficulty in remembering that if it should be necessary. The solemnity of the funeral and Mr.
"I take it that the late Lord Loudwater had property of his own against which she could claim." "Oh, of course, she could do that," said Mr. Carrington, and there was some diminution of the triumphant expression. "She would," said Mr. Flexen. "Then you'll have to get over his objection to incurring a considerable amount of odium.
And if you come to think of it, things being as they are, Loudwater would probably make himself more infernally disagreeable to me than he does at present. He'd not only try to take it out of me to annoy you, but it's just as likely as not that he would consider my getting engaged to you as poaching on his preserves infernal cheek.
Colonel Grey remembered that Olivia had said that she proposed to deny the kiss, and his course was quite clear to him. "I don't know whether you're drunk, or mad," he said in a quiet, contemptuous voice. This again was not what Lord Loudwater had expected.
It's the shortest. Besides, his lordship was nearly always asleep; and if he wasn't and did 'ear me, there was always something I could be doing in the library, sir." He spoke with eager, rather humble civility. "Well, did you, as you went through the library, coming or going, hear Lord Loudwater snore?" Hutchings knitted his brow, thinking; then he said: "I can't call to mind as I did, sir.
Besides, even if they discovered that the quarrel between Colonel Grey and Lord Loudwater had its origin in Lady Loudwater, in the present state of mind of the country, they would have to move very cautiously indeed in the case of a V.C.
She took another sip and said quietly: "It isn't corked." Then she turned cold with fright. Lord Loudwater could not believe his ears. It could not be that his wife had contradicted him flatly. It could not be. He was still incredulous, breathing heavily, when the door opened and James Hutchings appeared on the threshold.
"He certainly wasn't popular with me," said Mr. Manley dryly. "What did Lord Loudwater discharge him for?" "A matter of a commission on the purchase of some wine," said Mr. Manley. Then in a more earnest tone he added: "Look here: the trenches knock a good deal of the nonsense out of one, and I tell you frankly that if I could help you in any way to discover the criminal, I wouldn't.
"He always seems rather cooler than a cucumber. But my belief is that that coolness is just the mask of really violent emotions. I saw them working once. I came in on the end of his row with Loudwater just the end of it my goodness! From my point of view, the dramatist's, you know, he's the most interesting person in the county bar Lady Loudwater, of course."
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