Overstow

Duperré had been absent from Overstow ever since the day we had left for Edinburgh, but as the bright autumn days passed I found myself more and more in love with the dainty girl whose father was a master-criminal.

The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance William Le Queux 1895

We met, and early next morning we were back at Overstow.

The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance William Le Queux 1895

It was not until a week later that we read in the English newspapers the sensation caused by the arrest of Mr. Rudolph Rayne of Overstow

The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance William Le Queux 1895

From Duperré, who arrived three days after I had got to Overstow, I gathered that Rayne had suddenly been called away to the Continent on one of his swift visits, "on a little matter of business," added

The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance William Le Queux 1895

Afterwards I dined at the Station Hotel alone, and returned to Overstow, which seemed chill and lonely.

The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance William Le Queux 1895

When I returned to Overstow and related my strange adventure, Rayne was furious that just at the very moment when the deal by which he was to reap such a huge profit was complete, our friend the Minister should have been assassinated.

The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance William Le Queux 1895

So Rayne had gone to Heathcote in order to telephone to somebody in great urgency -- somebody he dare not speak with from Overstow.

The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance William Le Queux 1895

And none of the actors in that strange drama suspect the hand of the clever, unscrupulous, but sometimes generous, Squire of Overstow.

The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance William Le Queux 1895

The Damoclean sword had apparently fallen upon the Squire of Overstow.

The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance William Le Queux 1895

Next morning we left Enderby by train and returned to Overstow in the late afternoon.

The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance William Le Queux 1895