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" May I take it then, Mr Loeffler, that in your opinion 

 Orme was not poisoned ? " 

 " Undoubtedly you may." 



Now after that there was much veterinary correspond- 

 ence, but nothing in the slightest degree conclusive, and 

 the point of substance is that, just as I expected, the 

 Duke of Westminster did not like being contradicted 

 once his fiat had gone forth ; and John Porter told me 

 just before La Flche's One Thousand Guineas that I had 

 got him into trouble by what I had written, and that he 

 had to go to Grosvenor House to see the Duke and 

 George Lewis. Of course I said : " Blame my memory. 

 Don't on any account let me cause trouble." And so it 

 rested. 



