ast likely that I could be of use, I do beg you to tell me what the puzzle is, Mrs Simpson. If it is finding out anything about a book, you see, Scarpe Nike Air Max 2015 Uomo I am in rather a good position to do it.’
‘Yes, I do see that, but the worst of it is that we don’t know the name of the book.’
‘Nor what it is about?’
‘No, nor that either.’
‘Except that we don’t think it’s in English, mother — and that is not much Halpa North Face T-Shirt of a clue.’
‘Well, Mr Garrett,’ said Mrs Simpson, who had Chicago Bears Tröjor not yet resumed her work, and was looking at the fire thoughtfully, ‘I shall tell you the story. You will please keep Manchester United Barn it to yourself, if you don’t mind? Thank you. Now it is just this. I had an old uncle, a Dr Rant. Perhaps you may have heard of him. Not that he was a distinguished man, but from Anaheim Ducks Drakter the odd way he chose to be buried.’
‘I rather think I have seen the name in some guidebook.’
‘That would be it,’ said Miss Simpson. ‘He left directions — horrid old man! — that he was to be put, sitting at a table in his ordinary clothes, in a brick room that he’d had made underground in a field near his Maillot Northern Irlande Pas CHer house. Of course the country people say he’s been seen about there in his old black cloak.’
‘Well, dear, I don’t know much about such things,’ Mrs Simpson went on, ‘but anyhow he is dead, these twenty years and more. He was a clergyman, though I’m sure I can’t imagine how he got to be one: but he did no duty for the last part of his Halpa Miehet Denali Takki life, which I think was a good thing; and he lived on his own property: a very nice estate not a great way from here. He had no wife or family; only one niece, who was myself, and one nephew, and he had no particular liking for either of us — nor for anyone else, as far as that goes. If anything, he liked my cousin better than he did me — for John was much more like him in his temper, and, I’m afraid I must say, his very mean sharp ways. It might have been different if I had not married; but I did, and that he very much resented. Very well: here he was |
