so Reggie carried it away to the schoolroom.Now he makes small explosions there all day.
Reggie has just made another explosion,and Father has ordered the clock to br sent to the garden room.I don't think he likes it as much as he did at first ,although he is pleased that someone sent it to him.It shows that people read his books and learn from them.
We all send our love and hope that Uncle Cecil's toe is better.
Your loving niece,
Jane Percy
Lord Arthur looked very serious and unhappy about the letter,and that made the Duchess laugh.
'My dear Arther; she cried, ' I'll never show vou a young lady's letter agian.But what can I say about the clock? I'd like to have one myself.'
' I don't like them ; said Lord Arthur, with a sad smile. He kissed his mother and left the room.
When he got upstairs, he threw himself into a chair,and his eyes fikled with tears.
' I've done my best to complete this murder, but on both occasions I've failed; he thought. 'And it hasn't been my fault ! I've tried to do my duty ! '
At half past seven, Lord Arthur dressed and went to the club.
The doorman gave him a letter. It was from Winckelkopf, inviting him to come the next evening and look at an umbrella-bomb that had just arrived from Geneva. The umbrella exploded when yo put it up.
Lord Arthur threw away the letter and went out. He walked down to the River Thames and sat for hours by the water. The moon looked down through an opening in the clouds.