CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
THE WIRE FROM NETHERWELL
Wedgwood was one of those well-regulated Englishmen who believe that if you really must read a newspaper, there is only one newspaper that can be depended upon through thick and thin—to wit, the Times: he would as soon have thought of beginning the day without his breakfast as of omitting to glance over the Times while he munched his bacon and sipped his coffee. And like all readers of newspapers he had his favourite page. Some men turn first to the political news; some to the sporting, some to the financial; Wedgwood invariably turned first to the legal. And it was as he glanced over the Law Notices for that day that he saw the name Mortover. There it was—he sat for a moment staring at it.
Court XXIII (Pullastone, J.), 10.30. Mortover v. Mortover Main Colliery Company, Limited. Application for Injunction.
There was a telephone in the house in which Wedgwood lodged, and within two minutes of
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