Gowran. Mr. Gowran was very gracious, but said nothing of his
journey up to London. He asked various questions concerning her
"leddyship's" appearance at the police-court, as to which tidings had
already reached Ayrshire, and pretended to be greatly shocked at the loss
of the diamonds.
"When they talk o' ten thoosand poond that's a lee nae doobt?" asked Andy.
"No lie at all, I believe," said Greystock.
"And her leddyship wad tak' aboot wi' her ten thoosand poond in a box?"
Andy still showed much doubt by the angry glance of his eye and the close
compression of his lips and the great severity of his demeanour as he
asked the question.
"I know nothing about diamonds myself, but that is what they say they were
worth."
"Her leddyship her ain sell seems nae to ha' been in ain story aboot the
box, Muster Greystock?" But Frank could not stand to be cross-questioned
on this delicate matter, and walked off, saying that as the thieves had
not yet been tried for the robbery, the less said about it the better.
At four o'clock on that afternoon he had not seen Lizzie, and then he
received a message from her to the effect that she was still so unwell
from the fatigue of her journey that she could bear no one with her but
her child.
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