CHAPTER XX
THE DIAMONDS BECOME TROUBLESOME
The 30th of July came round, and Lizzie was prepared for her journey down
to Scotland. She was to be accompanied by Miss Macnulty and her own maid
and her own servants, and to travel of course like a grand lady. She had
not seen Lord Fawn since the meeting recorded in the last chapter, but had
seen her cousin Frank nearly every other day. He, after much
consideration, had written a long letter to Lord Fawn, in which he had
given that nobleman to understand that some explanation was required as to
conduct which Frank described as being to him "at present unintelligible."
He then went at considerable length into the matter of the diamonds, with
the object of proving that Lord Fawn could have no possible right to
interfere in the matter. And though he had from the first wished that
Lizzie would give up the trinket, he made various points in her favour.
Not only had they been given to his cousin by her late husband; but even
had they not been so given, they would have been hers by will. Sir Florian
had left her everything that was within the walls of Portray Castle, and
the diamonds had been at Portray at the time of Sir Florian's death.
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