CHAPTER IV

--AND HIS DAUGHTER, MUCH-AFRAID "_The women also looked pale and wan_." THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS Mr. Bunter brought Parker's letter up to Lord Peter in bed on the Wednesday morning. The house was almost deserted, everybody having gone to attend the police-court proceedings at Northallerton. The thing would be purely formal, of course, but it seemed only proper that the family should be fully represented. The Dowager Duchess, indeed, was there--she had promptly has…