LAID UP IN LAVENDER THE WILD GEESE THE GREAT HOUSE OVINGTON’S BANK BY STANLEY J. WEYMAN Author of “A Gentleman of France,” “Count Hannibal,” “The Castle Inn,” “The Great House,” etc., etc. NEW YORK LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 55 FIFTH AVENUE 1922 LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. Copyright, 1922 BY STANLEY J. WEYMAN Copyright, 1922 BY MADE IN THE UNITED STATES Contents OVINGTON’S BANK CHAPTER I It was market day at Aldersbury, the old county town of Aldshire, and the busiest hour of the day. The clock of St. Juliana’s was on the point of striking three, and the streets below it were thronged. The gentry, indeed, were beginning to take themselves homeward; a carriage and four, with postillions in yellow jackets, awaited its letters before the Post Office, and near at hand a red-wheeled tandem-cart, the horses tossing their small, keen heads, hung on the movements of its master, who was gossipping on the steps of
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