Late yesterday evening, word was received at our office that
he wished my father to come at once to Chetney House and to bring
with him certain papers. What these papers were is not essential; I
mention them only to explain how it was that last night I happened to
be at Lord Edam's bedside. I accompanied my father to Chetney House,
but at the time we reached there Lord Edam was sleeping, and his
physicians refused to have him awakened. My father urged that he
should be allowed to receive Lord Edam's instructions concerning the
documents, but the physicians would not disturb him, and we all
gathered in the library to wait until he should awake of his own
accord. It was about one o'clock in the morning, while we were still
there, that Inspector Lyle and the officers from Scotland Yard came
to arrest Lord Arthur on the charge of murdering his brother. You can
imagine our dismay and distress. Like everyone else, I had learned
from the afternoon papers that Lord Chetney was not dead, but that he
had returned to England, and, on arriving at Chetney House, I had
been told that Lord Arthur had gone to the Bath Hotel to look for his
brother and to inform him that if he wished to see their father alive
he must come to him at once.
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