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The Loudwater Mystery

CHAPTER IV
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Do you think, because I don't spend four or five months every year in that rotten hole, London, I haven't got any influence?
Hey?
If you do, you're damn well wrong.

I've got more than enough twice over to clear a scoundrel like you out of the Army." "Don't talk absurd nonsense!" said Grey calmly.
"Nonsense?
Hey?
Absurd nonsense ?" howled Lord Loudwater on a new note of exasperation.
"Yes, nonsense.

A disreputable cad like you can't hurt me in any way, and well you know it," said Grey with painstaking distinctness.
"Not hurt you?
Hey?
I can't hurt the corespondent in a divorce case?
Hey ?" said Lord Loudwater rather breathlessly.
"As if a man who has abused and bullied his wife as you have could get a divorce!" said Grey, and he laughed a gentle, contemptuous laugh, galling beyond words.
It galled Lord Loudwater surely enough; he snapped his fingers four times and gibbered.
"I tell you what it is: I've had enough of your manners," said Grey.
"What you want is a lesson.

And if I hear that you've been bullying Lady Loudwater about this simple matter of my having had tea with her, I'll give it you--with a horsewhip." "You'll give me a lesson?
You ?" whispered Lord Loudwater, and he danced a little frantically.
"Yes.

I'll give you the soundest thrashing any man hereabouts has had for the last twenty years, if I have to begin by knocking your ugly head off your shoulders," said Grey, raising his clear voice, so that for the first time Mrs.Turnbull, trembling, but thrilled, on the landing, heard what was being said.
The enunciation of Lord Loudwater had been thick, his words had been slurred.
"You?
You thrash me ?" he howled.
"Yes, me.


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