The Blog of Roon

The latest news is, as always, in the London Times.

That telegram about Lord Butterfield got sent without Shirley’s knowledge. He did indeed write it, but its mere existence convinced Lord Butterfield’s flunky to make the appropriate appointment, so he did not think it necessary or quite proper to send it.

Odder things have happened during the Ellipse, however. And Lord Butterfield certainly had it coming to him.

What I want to know is how long Col. Davis cooled his heels in Arkhangelsk dancing attendance on Lord Butterfield. Shirley is finishing the race secure in the knowledge that he and Margaret can’t win, given Davis’s formidable two-week lead. Shirley outright doesn’t want to win; the idea of profiting by a race that has killed so many people shocks him right to the core of his decent little soul.

Margaret agrees with him, though not with the same level of vehemence. They’ve discussed it behind closed doors… and what else they may have been up to behind said doors is ever so None of Your (or Anyone’s) Business.

If Davis sat around, though… ah, well, there’s always Lady Bonnet to win in place of the Addams.

I think I feel sorry for Griegson. Whatever Percy and Addison had on him, it must have been nasty. Stealing and destroying evidence is bad enough, but he can’t have wanted to commit that murder.

Shirley’s face when he sees the story dated 16th June will be a study. He’s, um, a teensy bit nervous about Meeting the Family. Meeting half of England and Scotland along with the Family is if anything worse.

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