The information which you have received is palpably erroneous.
"Why not refer to Lord Arranmore himself?
He would certainly confirm what I say, and finally dispose of the matter.
"Yours sincerely, "VICTOR LACROIX." "A very interesting letter," Lord Arranmore remarked.

"Well ?" Brooks crumpled the letter up and flung it into the waste-paper basket.
"Lord Arranmore," he said, "I made this inquiry behind your back, and in a sense I am ashamed of having done so.

Yet I beg you to put yourself in my position.

You must admit that my father's disappearance from the world was a little extraordinary.

He was a man whose life was more than exemplary--it was saintly.