It was then found that he was dead.
“It’s good riddance to bad rubbish,” the groom said.
“I agrees with you,” Newman responded. “At the same time the Police will want to make a story out of his death and accuse someone of shootin’ him.”
The groom was listening, but he did not speak.
“What I’ll say,” Newman added, “is that I fired the pistol. It ain’t fair that Miss Lang should be blamed when she only saved his Lordship from worse injuries. She only be a girl and you know how them Police make people feel guilty even when they ain’t.”
The groom laughed.
“That’ll be true enough. Do you remember what a row there was when the old carpenter got shot by mistake and the Police tried to prove that it were part of a vendetta against him.”
“I remembers that all right,” Newman said. “And this y
