CHAPTER XXII

A Name in the Paper Bellamy seldom read newspapers, but the _Globe_ had forced itself upon his attention. The only newspaper he ever read with interest was a local weekly, the _Berkshire Herald_, and even this he did not read himself. It was part of Savini's duties to read this journal aloud before dinner every Thursday, the day on which it was published. Sometimes he had to read every line that was printed, from the first advertisement on the front page to the account of some obscure agricultural show on the last.…