CHAPTER VII 

There was a good deal of speculation at the Sheridan Club, of which he was a popular and much envied member, as to the cause for the complete disappearance from their midst of Francis Ledsam since the culmination of the Hilditch tragedy. 

"Sent back four topping briefs, to my knowledge, last week," one of the legal luminaries of the place announced to a little group of friends and fellow-members over a before-dinner cocktail. 

"Griggs offered him the defence of William Bull, the Chippenham murderer, and he refused it," another remarked. "Griggs wrote him personally, and the reply came from the Brancaster Golf Club! It isn't like Ledsam to be taking golfing holidays in the middle of the session." 

"There's nothing wrong with Ledsam," declared a gruff voice from the corner. "And don't gossip, you fellows, at the top of your voices like a lot of old women. He'll be calling here for me in a moment or two." 

They all looked around. Andrew Wilmore rose slowly to his feet and emerged from behind the sheets of an evening paper. He laid his hand upon the shoulder of a friend, and glanced towards the door. 

"Ledsam's had a touch of nerves," he confided. "There's been nothing else the matter with him. We've been down at the Dormy House at Brancaster and he's as right as a trivet now. That Hilditch affair did him in completely." 

"I don't see why," one of the bystanders observed. "He got Hilditch off all right. One of the finest addresses to a jury I ever heard."  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What was the club called?
2. What name did the club bear?
3. 
Q2:
1. What was going on at the Sheridan Club?
2. What was happening at the Sheridan Club?
3. 
Q3:
1. How much speculation was going on?
2. How much were people hypothesizing?
3. 
Q4:
1. Who couldn't be found?
2. Whose whereabouts were unknown?
3. 
Q5:
1. Since when had Francis Ledsam been missing?
2. Since when were people unable to locate Francis Ledsam?
3. 
Q6:
1. What did an intimate group learn from someone?
2. What information was communicated to a small group?
3. 
Q7:
1. What announcement was made?
2. What did people learn?
3. 
Q8:
1. When were legal briefs sent back?
2. At what point did legal documents get regurned?
3. 
Q9:
1. What would it be improbable for Francis Ledsam to do?
2. What wouldn't it be like Francis Ledsam to do?
3. 
Q10:
1. When would it be improbably for Francis Ledsam to go on a golfing holiday?
2. At what point in time would Francis Ledsam not usually go on a golfing holiday?
3. 
