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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Crime and the Criminal - -Author: Richard Marsh - -Release Date: July 27, 2012 [EBook #40348] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CRIME AND THE CRIMINAL *** - - - - -Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by Google Books - - - - - -</pre> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40348 ***</div> <br> <br> @@ -889,7 +856,7 @@ morning papers. But a morbid anxiety constrained me to the search. Pilbeam, who always travels with me to town, displayed almost as much interest in the papers as I did. He wanted to know why I had bought them. He became facetious in his way--which is his way, and, thank -Providence, his way only. I listened to Pilbeam's facetiæ while I was +Providence, his way only. I listened to Pilbeam's facetiæ while I was mentally asking myself if it would be better--for me--for her to be found living or dead. In the one case I knew that she would denounce me at once to the police, and I should sleep that night in gaol--and then, @@ -1461,7 +1428,7 @@ evidently making up his mind as to what it would be advisable for him to say.</p> <p class="normal">"I should require you to make me an immediate, and, of course, -temporary advance of £100--in gold."</p> +temporary advance of £100--in gold."</p> <p class="normal">"A hundred pounds? I am not exactly a poor man; on the other hand, I am emphatically not a rich one. To me a hundred pounds are a hundred @@ -1561,7 +1528,7 @@ the teachings of my own experience.</p> <p class="normal">We went down, all of us, in two hansoms to the West End. I rode upon MacCulloch's knees. We began by playing billiards at some place in Jermyn Street. I know that I lost three pounds at pool. Then we dined -in a private room at the Café Royal. I have not the faintest +in a private room at the Café Royal. I have not the faintest recollection of what we had for dinner, but I am under a strong impression that I ate and drank of whatever there was to eat and drink, and that of both there was too much. My digestion is my weak point. The @@ -2830,7 +2797,7 @@ was his turn to come to me.</p> <p class="normal">"Shall I tell Jane to ask Mr. Keeley to excuse you?"</p> <p class="normal">"Certainly not." I had not been by any means looking forward to the -pleasurable prospects of a <i>tête-à-tête</i>. Keeley came as a relief. +pleasurable prospects of a <i>tête-à -tête</i>. Keeley came as a relief. "Tell Mr. Keeley I will be with him in a minute."</p> <p class="normal">Adolphus Keeley, to be frank, and to use an idiom, is not so wise as @@ -3095,7 +3062,7 @@ I will return it to you with its crimson of a still more vivid hue. I will show you that it is possible to paint even scarlet red."</p> <p class="normal">I put the Honour of the Club into my pocket-book. I went away with -Archie Beaupré. He wanted to know if I had any one in my mind's eye.</p> +Archie Beaupré. He wanted to know if I had any one in my mind's eye.</p> <p class="normal">"Not any one--unless it's you."</p> @@ -3924,7 +3891,7 @@ pleasant to us both."</p> <p class="normal">"You're sleeping it out. Are you going to lie in bed all day?"</p> -<p class="normal">I opened my eyes. I looked up. Somebody was shaking me--Archie Beaupré.</p> +<p class="normal">I opened my eyes. I looked up. Somebody was shaking me--Archie Beaupré.</p> <p class="normal">"You don't mean to say that you're awake? I admire your hours."</p> @@ -3944,7 +3911,7 @@ Climax."</p> <p class="normal">"He calls this early."</p> -<p class="normal">Beaupré is the third son of the Duke of Glenlivet--one of the duke's +<p class="normal">Beaupré is the third son of the Duke of Glenlivet--one of the duke's famed thirteen. Not a bad sort--stone broke, like all the rest of us. Archie was born in two different sections--one-half of him makes all for wickedness, and the other half makes all the other way--and, @@ -3952,8 +3919,8 @@ whichever half of him is to the fore, he's thorough. Jardine and I had found him in the drawing-room with Dora when we had finished our hobnobbing--at which I was not sorry. When a man has had the sort of talk with the father which I had had, he is not, on the instant, all -agog for a <i>tête-à-tête</i> with the child. He wants to straighten things -out inside his head a bit. We had left the Jardines together, Beaupré +agog for a <i>tête-à -tête</i> with the child. He wants to straighten things +out inside his head a bit. We had left the Jardines together, Beaupré and I. He had gone to some twenty-third cousin of his great grandmother--the man's relations are as the sands of the sea for multitude, and he keeps in with every one of them--and I had gone on to @@ -3999,7 +3966,7 @@ ghastly joke."</p> <p class="normal">"A ghastly joke."</p> -<p class="normal">Beaupré looked up at me. I don't know what he saw in my face, but a +<p class="normal">Beaupré looked up at me. I don't know what he saw in my face, but a funny look came on his own--a look almost of fear.</p> <p class="normal">"Sometimes, Townsend, I don't know if you're a man or a devil."</p> @@ -4115,7 +4082,7 @@ were to toddle home and take a pill."</p> room without another word.</p> <p class="normal">I don't mind owning--since, in these pages, at any rate, candour is the -order of the day--that when Beaupré had gone I did not feel altogether +order of the day--that when Beaupré had gone I did not feel altogether up to concert pitch. Things were going contrary. The club did bid fair to be a bit of a failure. Although the suggestion, as I had said, had been Archie's, it was Pendarvon who had put it into shape.</p> @@ -4240,7 +4207,7 @@ friend for many years."</p> seemed to do everything in fairly good style. The room in which we sat was not only prettily furnished, it was distinctly that sort of prettiness which costs money--it had no connection with the "How to -furnish a twelve-roomed house tastefully for £200" kind of thing. Tea +furnish a twelve-roomed house tastefully for £200" kind of thing. Tea was served with the accompaniments of silver and Wedgewood china, by a maid who knew her work. Altogether Mrs. Carruth and her way of doing things favourably impressed me.</p> @@ -4627,7 +4594,7 @@ better take a chair?"</p> "We've decided on slaughtering the first chap we meet of the name of Jones--there are such a lot of them about, you know."</p> -<p class="normal">Archie Beaupré came across to me. He was among the last to arrive. He +<p class="normal">Archie Beaupré came across to me. He was among the last to arrive. He also had been drinking. But liquor did not affect him as it did Teddy Hibbard. He never lost his equilibrium. There never came a stammer into his speech. Nor, in Iago's sense, did it steal away his brains. When @@ -4740,14 +4707,14 @@ murder clubs, which have been called by other names. They have concerned themselves with revolutions--with religious, social, political reforms. A murder club, the object of which has been amusement, pure and simple, I doubt if there ever before has been. To -our founders I owe a special, a peculiar gratitude. Beaupré, I bow to +our founders I owe a special, a peculiar gratitude. Beaupré, I bow to you--the original suggestion of our Club was yours."</p> <p class="normal">I bowed to Archie. In return he waved his hand to me.</p> <p class="normal">"And a devilish good suggestion, too!"</p> -<p class="normal">"Beaupré, the words you use could not be bettered. They exactly +<p class="normal">"Beaupré, the words you use could not be bettered. They exactly describe the theme. Mr. Chairman, I bow to you--it was you who clothed with flesh the dry bones of the suggestion, breathed on them, and gave them life."</p> @@ -5090,7 +5057,7 @@ to have a little longer run before I earn my diploma."</p> <p class="normal">He drew a blank. Next to him sat Archie. Silvester passed him the bag, with a laugh--a queer laugh, which had in it a hysteric note.</p> -<p class="normal">"Try your luck, Beaupré--three shies a penny!"</p> +<p class="normal">"Try your luck, Beaupré--three shies a penny!"</p> <p class="normal">Archie looked him in the face.</p> @@ -5116,7 +5083,7 @@ did I not tell you? As you perceive, the fortune of war is mine!"</p> <p class="normal">I stood up as he sat down.</p> -<p class="normal">"Bumpers, gentlemen." They filled and rose. "Beaupré, feeling, as we +<p class="normal">"Bumpers, gentlemen." They filled and rose. "Beaupré, feeling, as we must, that the Honour of the Club could not possibly be in better or in more deserving hands, we tender you our best congratulations on your good fortune as you know full well."</p> @@ -5124,9 +5091,9 @@ good fortune as you know full well."</p> <p class="normal">Then they all said in a sort of chorus as they drank, "We do."</p> <p class="normal">"You have the prospect, nay, the certainty, of good sport before you, -Beaupré--sport of a rare and of a most excellent kind. I speak from my +Beaupré--sport of a rare and of a most excellent kind. I speak from my own experience. That this day month you may have as pleasant a story to -tell as mine--Beaupré, I can wish you no better wish than that."</p> +tell as mine--Beaupré, I can wish you no better wish than that."</p> <p class="normal">Then Archie spoke. He held the Honour of the Club out in front of him while he was speaking.</p> @@ -5281,7 +5248,7 @@ assistance of one of Archie's dressing-gowns, he managed. The more Archie drinks, the more he's in the vein. As for me, I was ready to play for my boots. And Pendarvon was as sober as a judge.</p> -<p class="normal">Beaupré made it poker--poker is his pet game. We began with a ten +<p class="normal">Beaupré made it poker--poker is his pet game. We began with a ten shilling ante, and a ten pound limit. It made a pretty game, while it lasted. In the first jack-pot, when it came to threes, Silvester declared that all his cash was gone. It was he began the IOU's. Teddy's @@ -5291,7 +5258,7 @@ paid a visit to Teddy. Pendarvon seemed to have a pocket full of money. He brought out a whole sheaf of bank-notes to give our appetites a twist.</p> -<p class="normal">Teddy had just taken another plump jack-pot when Beaupré ran dry. He +<p class="normal">Teddy had just taken another plump jack-pot when Beaupré ran dry. He replenished his pockets at his desk. When he came back, Pendarvon was about to deal.</p> @@ -5440,7 +5407,7 @@ neither seemed disposed to tire. The pool crept up to a thousand. Then Archie found fault with the rate of progression.</p> <p class="normal">"Confound this limit! It's child's play; we shall be at it all night. -Will either of you see me for £500?"</p> +Will either of you see me for £500?"</p> <p class="normal">Pendarvon hesitated, or appeared to.</p> @@ -5764,7 +5731,7 @@ wondered.</p> Haselton Jardine. I should probably stay there till Tuesday or Wednesday--it depended. I might make it Thursday with Mrs. Carruth--if anything turned up at the last moment I could always send an excuse. -Something about the woman attracted me. A <i>tête-à-tête</i> might prove +Something about the woman attracted me. A <i>tête-à -tête</i> might prove amusing. There and then I scribbled an acceptance--appointing Thursday.</p> <p class="normal">I was conscious of the possession of a head--the adventures of the @@ -5789,7 +5756,7 @@ handwriting.</p> "<i>Friday</i>.</p> </div> -<p class="normal">"<span class="sc">Dear Townsend</span>,--Enclosed find a cheque for £17,450. Short reckonings +<p class="normal">"<span class="sc">Dear Townsend</span>,--Enclosed find a cheque for £17,450. Short reckonings make long friends. Please give IOU's to bearer.</p> <p style="text-indent:50%">"Yours,</p> @@ -5972,7 +5939,7 @@ tip, you'll let Pendarvon have his coin at once--before leaving town."</p> nervous fingers. A smile--of a kind--wrinkled his lips.</p> <p class="normal">"What things we may become! If ever there was blood money, this is it. -And I'm a Beaupré. And do you know, Townsend, that for ever so long +And I'm a Beaupré. And do you know, Townsend, that for ever so long I've been dreaming dreams." He looked up at me, with a sudden flashing of his eyes. "Dreams of Dora Jardine."</p> @@ -6042,7 +6009,7 @@ altogether. She shall know what manner of man you are."</p> <p class="normal">He threw my cheque from him on to the floor.</p> <p class="normal">"I see. Having led me into crime, you are going to tell of me. Is that -sort of conduct in accordance with the Beaupré code of honour? Are you +sort of conduct in accordance with the Beaupré code of honour? Are you sure that you are not proposing to play Judas merely because I have conquered where you have failed?"</p> @@ -6480,10 +6447,10 @@ earnest in what you said to me this morning?"</p> Townsend?"</p> <p class="normal">I felt strongly that that sort of thing must cease. The idea of Lord -Archibald Beaupré's mentorship was an idea not to be endured.</p> +Archibald Beaupré's mentorship was an idea not to be endured.</p> <p class="normal">"There has been a good deal about your manner towards me lately, -Beaupré, to which I have objected, and with good cause. You have +Beaupré, to which I have objected, and with good cause. You have presumed on the friendship which exists between us in a manner of which I should have thought you, of all men, would have been incapable." He flushed. I saw I had struck home. "You must excuse me saying that if @@ -6827,7 +6794,7 @@ Leaning his arms on the table, Archie addressed himself to Tommy.</p> <p class="normal">Innes interposed.</p> -<p class="normal">"For shame, Beaupré!"</p> +<p class="normal">"For shame, Beaupré!"</p> <p class="normal">Archie turned on him like a wild cat.</p> @@ -7043,7 +7010,7 @@ will be a positive pleasure to have a hand in sending him to the gallows."</p> <p class="normal">As I was endeavouring to grasp the drift of what it was that they were -saying, I saw that Archie Beaupré was staring at us through the +saying, I saw that Archie Beaupré was staring at us through the drawing-room window.</p> <br> <br> @@ -7242,9 +7209,9 @@ as I strolled slowly past it, a refreshment-room.</p> <p class="normal">I should not wonder if he did stand in need of refreshment!</p> <p class="normal">There did not appear to be a seat in the place. English people talk -about the discomfort of the American depôts but my experience is that, +about the discomfort of the American depôts but my experience is that, from the discomfort point of view, the average English station runs the -American depôt hard. I sat on one of those square trollies which the +American depôt hard. I sat on one of those square trollies which the porters use for baggage. There I watched and waited for my gentleman to emerge, refreshed. The trolley was close to the refreshment-room. I could see him at the bar. He was not content with one drink. He @@ -7849,14 +7816,14 @@ had been the scene of a hideous tragedy--of a frightful murder, of one of those recurrent crimes, which force us, from time to time, to recognise the dangers which, in England, at any rate, are associated with railway travelling. The identity of one of the <i>dramatis -personæ</i>--as poor, dear Daniel used to say, "I'm a-quoting"--was +personæ</i>--as poor, dear Daniel used to say, "I'm a-quoting"--was unfortunately, but too evident. There was the woman who had been found lying among the laurels--I wonder if they were laurels?--with her face turned towards the skies. As a matter of fact, she had lain face downwards. It was owing to that I had not seen her face. She was a silent but an eloquent witness--that was touching. The public demanded the prompt production of at least another of the <i>dramatis -personæ</i>--"still a-quoting"--of the man--it would not, perhaps, display +personæ</i>--"still a-quoting"--of the man--it would not, perhaps, display too much rashness to hazard the prediction that it would prove to be a man--who had hurled her there.</p> @@ -8198,7 +8165,7 @@ man may steal the horse, while we may not look over the hedge. Primitive civilisations are, after all, in certain respects, the best; but then they lack the very things we want!</p> -<p class="normal">I'm a widow--<i>bonâ fide</i>. I could put down as much hard cash, dollar +<p class="normal">I'm a widow--<i>bonâ fide</i>. I could put down as much hard cash, dollar for dollar, as many women who are famed for riches. I want to begin again. I have ambitions. I want to ruffle it among the best of them. Why shouldn't I? I have the qualities. So I have taken this highly @@ -8528,11 +8495,11 @@ was like reading the Almanach de Gotha and the Court Guide bound up together. Only it was better, and a deal more satisfying.</p> <p class="normal">He began to speak of a particular friend of his, one Lord Archibald -Beaupré, in a way which set me all of a tremble.</p> +Beaupré, in a way which set me all of a tremble.</p> <p class="normal">"I will bring Archie to call on you--if I may."</p> -<p class="normal">This Lord Archibald Beaupré was a son of the Duke of Glenlivet, and, so +<p class="normal">This Lord Archibald Beaupré was a son of the Duke of Glenlivet, and, so far as blood went, not very distant from the Throne itself.</p> <p class="normal">"I shall be very glad to see him, or, indeed, any of your friends. Is @@ -8767,7 +8734,7 @@ opportunity to ask the man a question which should be entirely between ourselves. Whether he was as willing to be left alone with me as I was to be left alone with him, is more than I can say. He ought to have been. Mr. Haines took me at my word. He stamped through the hall and -from the house. The stranger and I were <i>tête-à-tête</i>.</p> +from the house. The stranger and I were <i>tête-à -tête</i>.</p> <p class="normal">He did not seem to be exactly at his ease. Mr. Haines had not offered him a chair. He seemed to think that he would like one. Indeed, he said @@ -8980,7 +8947,7 @@ see him go.</p> <p class="normal">The very next day the Corsican brother obliged me with a call--my friend, the gentleman. He came accompanied by a friend--none other than -that Lord Archibald Beaupré, of whom he had spoken.</p> +that Lord Archibald Beaupré, of whom he had spoken.</p> <p class="normal">My lord was long and thin and a little weedy. His hair was sandy, and parted, with mathematical exactness, precisely in the middle. It would @@ -9559,9 +9526,9 @@ point of view."</p> <p class="normal">"What sort of position do you imagine me to have?"</p> -<p class="normal">"You have the <i>entrée</i> to the best society in England."</p> +<p class="normal">"You have the <i>entrée</i> to the best society in England."</p> -<p class="normal">"It does not follow that I can give that <i>entrée</i> to my wife."</p> +<p class="normal">"It does not follow that I can give that <i>entrée</i> to my wife."</p> <p class="normal">"If you have a particular kind of wife, it does."</p> @@ -9590,7 +9557,7 @@ it is certain to increase."</p> your choice of the best <i>partis</i> in England. You would have no difficulty in marrying a man who really has what I only have in your imagination--family and influence. For instance, there is Archie -Beaupré. He has some of the bluest blood in England in his veins. He +Beaupré. He has some of the bluest blood in England in his veins. He has just the things you want. Why not marry him?"</p> <p class="normal">"If I did, you would hang."</p> @@ -12152,7 +12119,7 @@ Townsend sat down to the discussion of his morning meal.</p> <p class="normal">As he was finishing, a manservant opened the door.</p> -<p class="normal">"Lord Archibald Beaupré, sir, wishes to see you."</p> +<p class="normal">"Lord Archibald Beaupré, sir, wishes to see you."</p> <p class="normal">"Show him in here."</p> @@ -12208,7 +12175,7 @@ oneself, attracts. One could understand how the one might be forgiven till seventy times seven, while the other would be condemned, without benefit of clergy, for his first offence.</p> -<p class="normal">Lord Archibald Beaupré returned to the easy-chair, armed with a +<p class="normal">Lord Archibald Beaupré returned to the easy-chair, armed with a tumbler of whisky and soda. He took a considerable drink. And then he spoke--morosely.</p> @@ -12309,7 +12276,7 @@ tumbler in the other.</p> transfigured. The ease and the carelessness vanished. He became all bitterness and gall.</p> -<p class="normal">"Beaupré, I am inclined to think that you are the most consummate ass +<p class="normal">"Beaupré, I am inclined to think that you are the most consummate ass of my acquaintance. Why will you perpetually harp upon a single string? You are so utterly inept that the wonder is I have borne with you so long. Might I ask you not eternally to play the fool?"</p> @@ -12352,7 +12319,7 @@ paper up; he placed it in his waistcoat-pocket.</p> <p class="normal">"You shall have the literal letter of your bond. Afterwards, Mr. Townsend, I will deal with you."</p> -<p class="normal">Without another word Lord Archibald Beaupré left the room.</p> +<p class="normal">Without another word Lord Archibald Beaupré left the room.</p> <p class="normal">Left to himself, Mr. Townsend threw the end of his cigarette into the fire. Thrusting his hands into his trouser-pockets, stretching out his @@ -13269,7 +13236,7 @@ wondered what some of them did in such a galley. They seemed to be so oddly out of place.</p> <p class="normal">At last, with two exceptions, all the members were assembled. One of -the exceptions was Lord Archibald Beaupré. His absence was the cause, +the exceptions was Lord Archibald Beaupré. His absence was the cause, not only of comment, but, as time went on, and still he did not come, of obvious uneasiness to some of those who had arrived. Tell-tale looks came on their faces. They eyed each other, as it were, askance. They @@ -13285,17 +13252,17 @@ Honour of the Club.</p> <p class="normal">Mr. Pendarvon, who, plainly, was not the least uneasy of those who were present in the room, addressed an inquiry to Mr. Townsend.</p> -<p class="normal">"You are Beaupré's <i>fidus achates</i>, Townsend. When did you see him +<p class="normal">"You are Beaupré's <i>fidus achates</i>, Townsend. When did you see him last?"</p> <p class="normal">Mr. Townsend had evidently shown an indifference to the fact of Lord -Archibald Beaupré's non-arrival which evidently in his case was not +Archibald Beaupré's non-arrival which evidently in his case was not assumed. He looked at Mr. Pendarvon a moment before he answered, and when he did answer his manner, although completely courteous, was hardly genial.</p> -<p class="normal">"For information of Lord Archibald Beaupré I must refer you--to Lord -Archibald Beaupré."</p> +<p class="normal">"For information of Lord Archibald Beaupré I must refer you--to Lord +Archibald Beaupré."</p> <p class="normal">Mr. Pendarvon seemed to relish neither the look with which he had been favoured nor the answer. Indeed, Mr. Townsend's manner, even more than @@ -13318,7 +13285,7 @@ agitation.</p> <p class="normal">A blank look came on some of the faces.</p> -<p class="normal">"It isn't Beaupré; it's Kendrick!"</p> +<p class="normal">"It isn't Beaupré; it's Kendrick!"</p> <p class="normal">Colonel Kendrick was the other member who had not yet put in an appearance. His absence had gone almost unnoticed. He had to do nothing @@ -13523,7 +13490,7 @@ behind. He turned sharply round, thinking, perhaps, that he had but escaped from one pitfall to fall at once into another.</p> <p class="normal">But it was not so. The person whom he found himself confronting was -that recalcitrant member of the Murder Club, Lord Archibald Beaupré.</p> +that recalcitrant member of the Murder Club, Lord Archibald Beaupré.</p> <p class="normal">"You! Well?"</p> @@ -13607,7 +13574,7 @@ a favour--to take a message."</p> <p class="normal">The speaker's voice was even more husky than before.</p> <p class="normal">Mr. Townsend scribbled a few words on a page of his pocket-book. -Tearing out the leaf, he handed it to Lord Archibald Beaupré.</p> +Tearing out the leaf, he handed it to Lord Archibald Beaupré.</p> <p class="normal">"Give her that. Not necessarily at once, but some time when the thing's all over. And tell her----" He stopped; then, with a smile, went on, @@ -13627,7 +13594,7 @@ occupy me till they come. Good-bye."</p> blown a little of the dust away."</p> <p class="normal">He nodded, moved quickly across the pavement, and disappeared into the -house. Lord Archibald Beaupré was left standing in the street, +house. Lord Archibald Beaupré was left standing in the street, clutching the sheet of paper tightly in his hand.</p> <p class="normal">As Mr. Townsend entered a woman came forward to greet him. 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