Pancras, leaving a note for the Prime Minister to say where he was to be
found, and promising to come to town again the following afternoon.
* * * * *
The following morning fulfilled the promise of the tranquil evening and
starry night, which, amid the deep quiet of the country, had done much
to refresh a man, in whom, indeed, a stimulating consciousness of
success seemed already to have repaired the ravages of the fight.
Ferrier was always an early riser, and by nine o'clock he and Sir James
were pottering and smoking in the garden. A long case in which Chide had
been engaged had come to an end the preceding day. The great lawyer sent
word to his chambers that he was not coming up to town; Ferrier
ascertained that he was only half an hour from a telegraph office, made
a special arrangement with the local post as to a mid-day delivery of
letters, and then gave himself up for the morning to rest, gossip, and
a walk.
By a tiresome _contretemps_ the newspapers did not arrive at
breakfast-time. Sir James was but a new-comer in the district, and the
parcel of papers due to him had gone astray through the stupidity of a
newsboy.
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