The green tabloids / a novel by Mrs. Barré Goldie.

  • Goldie, Barré, Mrs., 1871-1938.
Date:
[between 1920 and 1929??]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The green tabloids / a novel by Mrs. Barré Goldie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deal older than he was. Had ladies been admitted to that Club, no doubt good manners would have prevented utterance being given to this pro¬ nouncement, which shows what happens under these circumstances. But it was perfectly true, Ottershaw was beginning to shrink and grow very grey about the temples—indeed almost to stoop. He said it was the foreign climate, the enervating heat. But it was really because he wasn’t happy. Nobody can defy the advance of years, or hold and capture health, with the springs of happiness dried at their source. Ottershaw had never known real peace of mind since that evening eight years or so ago when Sir Edward Hemingford had been done to death. He had a guilty conscience. For he now most firmly believed that he was what he had so often heard his old master call “ an acces¬ sory after the fact.” That he had not known anything at all about it made no difference. He had known the bald truth—that Sir Edward had been poisoned by some person or persons un¬ known. Moreover, that person or those persons was or were presumably still at large. The man believed that he had done very wrong and fool¬ ishly in concealing his knowledge. He was haunted by the fear that one day the truth would come out, and he would have brought not only suspicion and disaster upon himself, but upon the family of Brenderwood generally, and their friends. That “ murder will out,” he became absolutely convinced. And yet, the more he