The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 270: what you’re looking at

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BLOOMFIELD © 243 fresh and revivifying, and we may there hope to regain a healthier tone for our mind and spirits.” ‘In all this I agree with you, Ethel,” responded the young earl. ‘‘ We will depart to-day —or,” he added, as a sudden thought struck him, “‘ to-morrow at all events.” ‘And why not to-day?” inquired Ethel, hastily. ‘“ Because it is possible,’’ responded. Adolphus, ‘‘ that my presence may be required at the coroner’s inquest upon the murderer and suicide Makepeace. But I will repair at once and ascertain. Meanwhile you can be making all your preparations for departure.”’ They then issued from the library, the countess repairing to her own chamber, and Adolphus proceeding to the station- house to learn such particulars as he needed relative to the inquest. He was informed that from a communication just received from the coroner his presence would not be required; the confession of the deceased fully cleared up the mystery of the murder, apart from all other evidence, and in respect to the deed of self-destruction, there was little to be said on the subject, for all was clear and apparent. Adolphus accordingly returned to the mansion, and at two o’clock in the afternoon he took his departure thence, in company with Ethel. The Bloomfield estate, which had long been in the Lascelles family, was about thirty miles from London, and, as Ethel had already briefly described, it was composed of some of the most beautiful scenery to be found in the county where it was situated. Adolphus had brought with him only one valet, Ethel only one maid, for there were sufficient domestics for all purposes invariably kept at Bloomfield. The arrival of the young earl and of the widowed countess — who was of course believed to be his mother-in-law — was heralded by a messenger sent off on horseback an hour before they started from the metropolis; and notwithstanding the notice was so short, everything was ready for their suitable reception. The same messenger communicated to the house- hold at Bloomfield the intelligence of Makepeace’s detection and suicide, and he whispered likewise the exposure which had been made of the amour of Adolphus and Ethel. The servants who listened to these tidings were naturally stricken with astonishment, but it was not their interest to exhibit any other feeling than one of welcome to their master and the CORnnICLOOOKS (CO)