![]() ![]() The viscount picked up his wineglass again and took a long swallow. I heard he lost over a hundred thousand guineas at Watier’s the other night, the viscount said darkly, lifting his eyes from the tablecloth.įor a man who was notoriously under the hatches, a hundred thousand was an enormous sum of money. One suspected he was all to pieces, but I didn’t know it was that bad. ![]() The Earl of West carefully lowered his considerable bulk into the chair across from his friend. He was referring to the suicide, not the stain. The viscount scowled at the deep red stain his wine had made on the tablecloth. He had it from his valet, who is a friend of Cheviot’s valet. Viscount Longworth put down his glass of burgundy so abruptly that it spilled on the white damask tablecloth. Have you heard? Cheviot went and put a bullet in his brain. ![]() I say, Longworth, the Earl of West said to Viscount Longworth, as he came up to the latter in the dining room of Brooks’s. The news ran like wildfire through the exclusive men’s clubs that lined fashionable St. ![]()
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