But every one knew, and such leading people as Runciman and Dr.Nupper were not slow to declare, that Dillsborough was the only place in England in which one might be sure that those articles had not been purchased.

And on the Tuesday it began to be understood that Goarly had applied to Bearside, the other attorney, in reference to his claim against Lord Rufford's pheasants.

He had contemptuously refused the 7_s._ 6_d._ an acre offered him, and put his demand at 40_s._ As to the poisoned fox and the herrings and the strychnine Goarly declared that he didn't care if there were twenty detectives in the place.

He stated it to be his opinion that Larry Twentyman had put down the poison.

It was all very well, Goarly said, for Larry to be fond of gentlemen and to ride to hounds, and make pretences;--but Larry liked his turkeys as well as anybody else, and Larry had put down the poison.