The Shadow at Greystone Chase (An Angela Marchmont Mystery Book 10) by Clara Benson

Author:Clara Benson [Benson, Clara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-12-06T07:00:00+00:00

FREDDY STARED IN astonishment. Now he understood what Valencourt had meant when he said he had done his brother a bad turn. And what a bad turn it was! To steal his brother’s intended, marry her and bring her to live with them under the same roof—why, it was little wonder there had been bad feeling between the brothers. This was a motive for murder indeed! Everything Freddy had heard about the de Lisles up to now convinced him that Godfrey was not the sort of man to let a slight of this kind pass unavenged, and here, for the first time, was confirmation that there was every reason for Godfrey to have done it. How better to revenge himself than by killing the girl who had thrown him over and then pinning the blame on the man who had been responsible for it all? It made perfect sense.

‘How did Godfrey take it?’ he said. ‘I mean to say, it’s hardly the done thing, is it, to run off with one’s brother’s fiancée just before the wedding.’

‘No,’ agreed Harrington. ‘But they were a queer lot and as far as I know it was never mentioned. Anyway, from something Henry said I got the impression that it was the old man who had arranged the thing with Godfrey in the first place.’

‘The old man? Do you mean Roger de Lisle?’

‘Yes. He was the one who first met the Laceys, at their uncle’s house, and for some reason best known to himself he became fearfully keen to have Selina marry Godfrey.’

‘Weren’t Godfrey and Selina to have any say in the matter?’

‘Who knows? At any rate, he didn’t say no, and neither did Selina.’

‘She can’t have been in love with him, though, if she threw him over so easily,’ observed Freddy.

‘I dare say she wasn’t,’ said Harrington. ‘But one couldn’t blame her for accepting him. They hadn’t a penny between them, she and Henry, and the de Lisles were rich. She’d have to have had a pretty good reason to turn him down.’

‘Do you know what happened, exactly? I mean, how one brother ended up being substituted for another?’

‘I couldn’t say for certain, but it’s easy enough to understand if you ever met the two of them. Edgar must have been like a breath of fresh air after Godfrey, who was a dull old stick. I don’t know how Edgar squared it with his family—or whether he squared it with Godfrey at all, but still, the fact is that Selina ended up marrying him instead of his brother.’

‘Goodness,’ said Freddy. He considered for a second, trying to imagine Godfrey’s reaction when he found out that he had been supplanted. Had he gone to the wedding? Or had he stayed away indignantly? He had certainly not forgiven the affront—Valencourt himself had admitted that—but how far had he taken his resentment? That was the question.

‘I gather Henry lived with them all at Greystone Chase afterwards,’ he said.

‘Not exactly,’ said Harrington. ‘That’s the impression he tried

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