And a nice thing it is for me and Lady Agnes." "I don't think you need worry about that, Lord Garvington.

The honorable way in which the late Sir Hubert attained rank and gained wealth will reflect credit on his humble origin.

When the papers learn the story--" "Confound the papers!" interrupted Garvington fretfully.

"I sincerely hope that they won't make too great a fuss over the business." The little man's hope was vain, as he might have guessed that it would be, for when the news became known in Fleet Street, the newspapers were only too glad to discover an original sensation for the dead season.
Every day journalists and special correspondents were sent down in such numbers that the platform of Wanbury Railway Station was crowded with them.

As the town--it was the chief town of Hengishire--was five miles away from the village of Garvington, every possible kind of vehicle was used to reach the scene of the crime, and The Manor became a rendezvous for all the morbid people, both in the neighborhood and out of it.