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...downers.' I would most decidedly advise a man with a family and not much money against going to Australia." Reputedly such frankness has irritated Queen-Empress Mary, and, perhaps as a result, Dame Margaret was reported in despatches to have withdrawn to her estate, Polesden Lacey, Dorking...
...Victor, honey" was brought up by his womenfolks, commandeering their lives. Shallow, placid Mrs. Campion let the estate leak through her plump fingers. A carefully washed and brushed Mr. Lacey sought to be her second husband, and would have been but that Victor had a nightmare of Mr. Lacey as a catfish in a tailcoat and wailed until Mamma promised not to let him be "Victor's dear new Papa...
...night train for Chicago puffed out of the Cheyenne station. In Harry F. Sinclair's private car were Martin W. Littleton,* George C. Hoover, other lawyers "of counsel for the defense." They left behind them John W. Lacey, ex-Hoosier, ex-school-teacher, ex-Chief Justice of Wyoming, gallant 76-year-old leader of the Rocky Mountain Bar, also "of counsel for the defense." Next morning's Chicago express puffed Eastward with Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia, ex-Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, other lawyers "of counsel for the prosecution." The greatest trial in Wyoming history had come...
...absolute ring of deathlike silence significant?" asked Prosecuting' Attorney Roberts in his summing-up. "The defense is silent as the tomb," said Prosecuting Attorney Pomerene. To which, venerable Defending Attorney Lacey replied by demanding that all evidence concerning the monster deal be stricken from the records because there was nothing to implicate Sinclair with the bond transfer. And Defending Attorney Littleton added later the sneer that, some months ago, the Government "got bond hungry and went bond hunting all over...
...sidelines, his shoulder muscles paining him, sat Luis Lacey, watching his countrymen. He is their only 10-goal player. His position is at Back. He had fallen in practice, aggrevated an old injury. It was doubtful that he would be in shape by Sept. 6, which doubt augmented the doubt of the visitors winning. Lacey, though he lives in the Argentine, is eligible for the British team from the fact that he was born a Canadian...