«Good-day, Dr. Watson,» cried he with unwonted good humour, «you must really give your horses a rest and come in to have a glass of wine and to congratulate me.»
My feelings towards him were very far from being friendly after what I had heard of his treatment of his daughter, but I was anxious to send Perkins and the wagonette home, and the opportunity was a good one. I alighted and sent a message to Sir Henry that I should walk over in time for dinner. Then I followed Frankland into his dining-room.
«It is a great day for me, sir-one of the red-letter days of my life,» he cried with many chuckles. «I have brought off a double event. I mean to teach them in these parts that law is law, and that there is a man here who does not fear to invoke it. I have established a right of way through
