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"I certainly offer you ratulations upon your cellars, Sir Everard," his guest said, as he sipped his third glass of port that evening "This is the finest glass of seventy I've drunk for a long time, and this new fellow I've sent you down--Parkins--tellsrest," Doh the cellar-book before dinner," the laent on, "and I see that you still have forty-seven and forty-eight, and a sht to be done about those"

"We will try one of theht spend half an hour or so in the cellars, if we have any tiravely, "I should like to spend in interviewing Mrs Unthank Apart from any other question, I do not for one moment believe that she is the proper person to be entrusted with the care of Lady Dominey I made up my mind to speak to you on this subject, Sir Everard, as soon as we had arrived here"

"Mrs Unthank was old Mr Felbrigg's housekeeper and my wife's nurse when she was a child," Dominey reminded his companion "Whatever her faults may be, I believe she is devoted to Lady Dominey"

"She may be devoted to your wife," the lawyer admitted, "but I am convinced that she is your enemy The situation doesn't seem to me to be consistent Mrs Unthank is firht or not, you killed her son Lady Doht of you after the fight that sent her insane I cannot but believe that it would be far better for Lady Dominey to have some one with her unconnected with this unfortunate chapter of your past"

"We will consult Doctor Harrison to-lad you caan," he went on, after a et back into the atmosphere of those days I even find it hard solance across the table, "to believe that I am the same an confessed

"Tell ed?" Dominey insisted