Adair might have lost five pounds, but not more.
His fortune was a considerable one, and such a loss could not in
any way affect him. He had played nearly every day at one club
or other, but he was a cautious player, and usually rose a winner.
It came out in evidence that in partnership with Colonel Moran
he had actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in
a sitting some weeks before from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.
So much for his recent history, as it came out at the inquest.
On the evening of the crime he returned from the club exactly at
ten. His mother and sister were out spending the evening with a
relation. The servant deposed that she heard him enter the front
room on the second floor, generally used as his sitting-room.
She had lit a fire there, and as it smoked she had opened the window.
No sound was heard from the room until eleven-twenty, the hour of
the return of Lady Maynooth and her daughter. Desiring to say
good-night, she had attempted to enter her son's room. The door
was locked on the inside, and no answer could be got to their
cries and knocking. Help was obtained and the door forced.
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