But he had good grounds upon which to suspect others as highly placed as Stanhope, and had he followed his suspicions he might have turned them into certainties and discovered evidence.

As it was, he let the matter lie, content with the execution he had done, and the esteem into which he had so suddenly hoisted himself--the damned profligate!" Mr.Caryll let pass, as typical, the ludicrous want of logic in Ostermore's strictures of his Grace of Wharton, and the application by him to the duke of opprobrious terms that were no whit less applicable to himself.
"Then, that being so, what cause for these alarms some six months later ?" "Because," answered his lordship in a sudden burst of passion that brought him to his feet, empurpled his face and swelled the veins of his forehead, "because I am cursed with the filthiest fellow in England for my son." He said it with the air of one who throws a flood of light where darkness has been hitherto, who supplies the key that must resolve at a turn a whole situation.

But Mr.Caryll blinked foolishly.
"My wits are very dull, I fear," said he.

"I still cannot understand." "Then I'll make it all clear to you," said his lordship.
Leduc appeared at the arbor entrance.
"What now ?" asked Mr.Caryll.
"Her ladyship is approaching, sir," answered Leduc the vigilant..