Do you hear ?" He turned away from the astonished man, went into the room he had called sacred, and closed the door.

Hedges wondered whether the hitherto sweet-tempered, easy-mannered younger brother had changed his nature with his inheritance.
As the days went on, few, if any, further particulars were elicited as to the cause of accident.

That the unfortunate Lord Hartledon had become partly, if not wholly, disabled, so as to be incapable of managing even the little skiff, had been drifted by the current towards the mills, and there upset, was assumed by all to have been the true history of the case.

There appeared no reason to doubt that it was so.

The inquest was held on the Thursday.
And on that same morning the new Lord Hartledon received a proof of the kindness of his brother.