Knight without armour [antikvár]

PART I prologue "There died on the 13Ü1 inst. at Roone's Hotel, Carrigole, Co. Cork, where he had been staying for somé time, Mr. Ainsley Jergwin Fothergill, in his fortyninth year. Mr. Fothergill was the youngest son of the Reverend Wilson Fothergill, of Timperleigh, Leicestershire. Educated at Barrowhurst and at St. John's College, Cambridge, he was for a time a journalist in London before seeking his fortune abroad. Since 1920 he had been closely associated with the plantation rubber industry, and was the author of a standard work upon that subject." So proclaimed the obituary column of The Times on the morning of October igth, 1929. But The Times gets to Roone's a day and a half late, and Fothergill was already beneath the soil of Carrigole churchyard by then. There had been somé slight commotion over the burial; an English priest had wired at the last moment that the man was a Catholic. This seemed strange, for he had never been noticed to go to Mass; but still, there was the telegram, and since most Carrigole folk were buried as Catholics anyway, the matter was not difficult to arrange. There was alsó an inquest. Fothergill had apparently died in his sleep; one of the maids took up his cup of tea in the morning and actually left it on his bedside table without knowing he was dead. She told the district