The murder of a nobleman is an uncommon occurrence, and the editor of that paper showed every intention of making the most of it.
The visit of the unknown woman to Lord Loudwater and their quarrel, treated with the nervous picturesqueness of which Mr.Gregg was so famous a master, formed the main and interesting part of the article.

When he came to the end of it, Mr.Manley whistled ruefully.

He had no difficulty whatever in picturing to himself the indignant and violent wrath of Helena, and he could not conceive for a moment that Lord Loudwater had been able to withstand it.

Of course, he would be violent, too, but with a much less impressive violence.
Lord Loudwater had been lavish in the matter of newspapers; he was a rich man, and they had been his only reading.

Mr.Manley read the report of the inquest in all the chief London dailies, and found in the _Daily Planet_ another nervously picturesque article on the visit of the mysterious woman from the nervously picturesque pen of Mr.Douglas.
Here was certainly a pretty kettle of fish.