But every one knew, and such leading people as Runciman
and Dr. Nupper were not slow to declare, that Dillsborough was the
only place in England in which one might be sure that those
articles had not been purchased. And on the Tuesday it began to be
understood that Goarly had applied to Bearside, the other attorney,
in reference to his claim against Lord Rufford's pheasants. He had
contemptuously refused the 7s. 6d. an acre offered him, and put his
demand at 40s. As to the poisoned fox and the herrings and the
strychnine Goarly declared that he didn't care if there were twenty
detectives in the place. He stated it to be his opinion that Larry
Twentyman had put down the poison. It was all very well, Goarly
said, for Larry to be fond of gentlemen and to ride to hounds, and
make pretences;--but Larry liked his turkeys as well as anybody
else, and Larry had put down the poison. In this matter Goarly
overreached himself. No one in Dillsborough could be brought to
believe that. Even Harry Stubbings was ready to swear that he
should suspect himself as soon. But nothing was clearer than
this,--that Goarly was going to make a stand against the hunt and
especially against Lord Rufford. He had gone to Bearside and
Bearside had taken up the matter in a serious way. Then it became
known very quickly that Bearside had already received money, and it
was surmised that Goarly had some one at his back.
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