The servants were authority for the report, that no earlier than the day before his death, he slipped and fell in the dining-room, and thereupon swore that he would have Portland cement floors put in before Christmas.
Lord and Lady Deppingham, being first in the field, at once proceeded to settle themselves in the choicest rooms--a Henry the Sixth suite which looked out on the sea and the town as well.

It is said that Wyckholme slept there twice, while Skaggs looked in perhaps half a dozen times--when he was lost in the building, and trying to find his way back to familiar haunts.
There was not a sign of a servant about the house or grounds.

The men whom Bowles had engaged, carried the luggage to the rooms which Lady Deppingham selected, and then vanished as if into space.

They escaped while the new tenants were gorging their astonished, bewildered eyes with the splendors of the apartment.
"We'll have to make the best of it," sighed Deppingham in response to his wife's lamentations.

"I daresay, Antoine and the maids can get our things into some sort of shape, my dear.