The youth moved in the best society, had, so far as was known,
no enemies, and no particular vices. He had been engaged to Miss
Edith Woodley, of Carstairs, but the engagement had been broken
off by mutual consent some months before, and there was no sign
that it had left any very profound feeling behind it. For the
rest the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle,
for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional. Yet it
was upon this easy-going young aristocrat that death came in
most strange and unexpected form between the hours of ten and
eleven-twenty on the night of March 30, 1894.
Ronald Adair was fond of cards, playing continually, but never
for such stakes as would hurt him. He was a member of the
Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs. It was
shown that after dinner on the day of his death he had played
a rubber of whist at the latter club. He had also played there
in the afternoon. The evidence of those who had played with him
-- Mr. Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Moran -- showed that
the game was whist, and that there was a fairly equal fall of
the cards.
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