The Loudwater Mystery

Book Excerpt: him a look of vindictive malignity so intense that itmade Mr. Manley quite uncomfortable, turned, and went out of the room.Lord Loudwater said: "I'll teach the scoundrel to rob me Write at oncefor a new butler."He took some lumps of sugar from a jar on the mantelpiece, and wentthrough the door which opened into the library.In the library he stopped and shouted back: "If Morton comes about thetimber, I shall be in the stables."Then he went through one of the long windows of the library into thegarden and took his way to the stables. As he drew near them the scowlcleared from his face. But it remained a formidable face; it did not growpleasant. None the less, he spent a pleasant hour in the stables, pettinghis horses. He was fond of horses, not of cats, and he never bullied andseldom abused his horses as he abused and bullied his fellow men andwomen. This was the result of his experience. He had learnt from it thathe might bully and abuse his human dependents with impunity. As a boyRead More