The Private Life of Doctor Crippen by Richard Gordon

Author:Richard Gordon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2008-11-04T08:51:53+00:00

Over the fruit-salad, Crippen passed Eliot the promised cheque. He saw it was for a guinea. “You’re very generous,” he said warmly.

“The most generous man in the world,” Ethel agreed. “You’ve only got to look at Belle’s dresses and jewels, haven’t you?”

It was approaching midnight when Crippen hailed a hansom. Ethel lived in Constantine Road on the southern edge of Hampstead Heath, barely a mile beyond Hilldrop Crescent. Eliot avoided a lift on the excuse of some excitement in the streets of Westminster. He strode towards the river down Kingsway, intending to take a tram along the Embankment to the Houses of Parliament. He heard the newsboys shouting a special 101

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edition. He thrust a ha’penny at a ragged urchin for the Evening Times, eagerly scanning the front page under a street lamp in the rain.

On Lord Lansdowne’s resolution, the House of Lords had rejected the House of Commons’ Finance Bill by 350 votes to 75. Eliot crammed the paper into the pocket of his raincoat. “There’ll be a general election,” he exclaimed excitedly. “A general election as soon as the year’s out.”

He walked with a springier step, seeing himself as Dr Eliot Beckett, MP.

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