The Campbell divorce case : copious report of the trial / With numerous portraits of those concerned drawn from life by Harold Furniss.

Date:
1887
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    COLIN CAMPBELL know Lord Blandford.” We took 79, .Cadogan-place, although it was not ready for our reception, in August, 1881. I remember that a number of letters were taken to Cadogan-place for the purpose of being sorted. I told her one afternoon I should not go there that afternoon. Something changed my mind, and I went at half-past three in the afternoon. I went into the drawing-room or some floor above, and found Lady Colin and Captain Shaw. The house was almost unfurnished. Another day I found Lord Blandford there about the same time with my wife. About October I caught a severe chill, and was confined to my bed at Argyll Lodge. Mrs. Wright waited upon me. I did not see much of Lady Colin then.' At Thurloe-square my wife went to dine at the Hotel Bristol with Captain Shaw and her sister. This visit of Captain Shaw caused an estrangement. I objected to my wife driving about in Captain Shaw’s brake. I went to Bournemouth in company with my wife. She did not stay with me, but said she wished to go back to London. In December, 1881, my health was in a very critical state. We went to Leigh Court on December 21. About November, 1881, we had a long conversation about Captain Shaw and Lord Blandford. I told her I had been informed that there had been scandalous gossip about her and Lord Blandford, and complained of his visits to her at Cadogan-place—also about Captain Shaw. She promised me they should not continue to be visitors there as I did not like either of them. After our return from Brighton she was very affectionate, and implored me not to suspect her of anything she did.' I noticed on the occasion of my visit to Lord Blandford’s house, that my Wife was very irritable, and was very angry with me when I went up to remind her it was very late. Afterwards, when we went downstairs. Lord Blandford came down too, and when we got to the bottom of the steps he said, “ Colin, your coat is there,” pointing in a very peremptory manner to a, room. I went into that room while my wife and Lord Blandford went to the vestibule, where they remained in close conversation for several minutes. I afterwards complained to my wife of the way in which she treated me by keeping me waiting when it Was bitterly cold, and I was not very strong at the time. I remember my wife staying in Paris. I knew she went with her mother, bnt I didn’t know beyond that. Rose Baer, the maid, was dismissed by Lady Miles and my wife. The last time I had marital relations with my wife was sometime in the month of June 1882. We were livjng on good terms from June to August 10, 1882, at Cadogan-place, when I went to Scotland. On the 12th I sent Lady Colin some grouse, and returned to London on the 13th. My wife had not uttered a syllable about her suffering from any disease. I never knew her to be unwell. I went straight to Leigh Court and my wife joined me from London. Mr. Allingham performed the operation then, and Mr. Bird was there to administer the anaesthetic. I had met him before. My wife went up to London every now and then. I returned to London in February 1883. Mr. Bird had made arrangements to stay with Lady Miles for a fortnight. He remained for three weeks. He went up to town, returning afterwards every week from Saturday to Monday. During that time he came occasionally to look at the cicatrice of my wound. 3 remember Lady Miles coming and having an interview with me at my house. She had written to me, I think, about a week or ten days before- hand that she had a message to give or a communication to make, and she had not told me, nor given me any hint of what that communication was. When she came to me she told me she had a message to give mo from my wife. I cannot remember if she said anything about having a letter in her