Winterfield and Miss Eyrecourt were engaged to be married.
3. Not long afterward, Miss Eyrecourt and her mother surprised the
neighborhood by suddenly leaving Beaupark House. Their destination was
supposed to be London.
4. Mr. Winterfield himself next left his country seat for the Continent.
His exact destination was not mentioned to any one. The steward, soon
afterward, dismissed all the servants, and the house was left empty for
more than a year.
5. At the end of that time Mr. Winterfield returned alone to Beaupark
House, and told nobody how, or where, he had passed the long interval of
his absence.
6. Mr. Winterfield remains, to the present day, an unmarried man.
Having arrived at these preliminary discoveries, it was time to try what
I could make of Mr. Winterfield next.
Among the other good things which this gentleman has inherited is a
magnificent library collected by his father. That one learned man
should take another learned man to see the books was a perfectly natural
proceeding. My introduction to the master of the house followed my
introduction to the library almost as a matter of course.
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