Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. CHECKMATE. "TTTHEN the train stopped at St. Bede's ' that evening, Temple Masters lost no time in making his way to the offices of Mr. Thompson. He had great faith in that gentleman. As he had told the Bishop, there were older men, and men of more repute in St. Bede's, but none so ready to make the best of a weak case, and to bring out the strong points of a good one, as Mr. Thompson. He was a rising man--they looked shyly on him at St. Bede's as yet--old Mr. Chastelar, who had all the County business, especially; but Temple Masters, who had worked with him, knew his value, and felt that in such a case as this, Mr. Thompson would do better than any man in St. Bede's. Mr. Thompson lived over his offices, but business was over for the day, and the clerks gone, and he sitting down to dinner when Temple Masters came to the house. He asked him to join him in the repast, and Temple, who would have done well to have lunched with the Bishop; having, as it was, eaten nothing but a biscuit since his breakfast; was very ready to accept the invitation. They were alone, Mr. Thompson being a bachelor. He was only about thirty--as the Bishop had said, he was young--a small, wiry, keen-faced man, with a quiet, energetic manner, which in itself was calculated to reassure a weak or timid client. His house was large--too large for a bachelor, but he was going to bring a mistress home to it before long, and it looked imposing and professional now. It was in a bad street, for one small house after another had crept up to it, so that at last it looked quite out of keeping with its surroundings. In its day it had been a mansion of some importance, and inhabited by people connected with the local aristocracy. But half its garden had been taken away, and small street...
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