Emma Orczy

Name: "The Tremarn Case"
Author: Emma Orczy

"The Tremarn Case" (1904)

Summary

“"The Tremarn Case"”, published in 1904, is a work by Emma Orczy. It explores elements such as Tremarn, Harold Le Cheminant and William Collins.

Quotes from "The Tremarn Case" (Emma Orczy)

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ But my contention is, that the man who committed that murder a year ago, repeated this crime last week—that the man who was murdered in Paris was the real Philip Le Cheminant, whilst the man who was murdered in London was some friend to whom he had confided his story, and probably his papers, and who then hit upon the bold plan of assuming the personality of the Martinique creole, heir to an English peerage.
"But what in the world makes you imagine such a preposterous thing?" ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ The news of the existence and claim of this unknown nephew must have come upon Lord Tremarn as a thunderbolt. His attitude, however, was one of uncompromising incredulity. He refused to believe the story of the marriage, called the whole tale a tissue of falsehoods, and denounced the claimant as a bare-faced and impudent impostor. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ No one in England took much count of the crime, beyond a contemptuous shrug of the shoulders at the want of safety of the Paris streets, and the incapacity of the French detectives, who not only never discovered the murderer, who had managed to slip out of the cab unperceived, but who did not even succeed in establishing the identity of the victim. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ When Lord Tremarn first heard from his brother Arthur's son, he went to Paris in order to assure himself of the validity of his claim. Seeing that there was no doubt of that, he assumed a friendly attitude towards the young man, and one evening took him out for a drive in a cab and murdered him on the way.
"Then came Nemesis in the shape of William Collins, whom he dared not denounce, lest his crime be brought home to him. How could he come forward and say: 'I know that this man is an imposter, as I happened to have murdered my nephew myself'? ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ Because you, like the police and like the public, have persistently shut your eyes to an event which, to my mind, has bearing upon the whole of this mysterious case, and that is the original murder committed in Paris a year ago, also in a cab, also with a stiletto—which that time was not found—in fact, in the self-same manner as this murder a week ago. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ As to the murdered man, it was not until about noon, when the early editions of the evening papers came out with a fuller account of the crime and a description of the victim, that his identity was at last established.
"Then the news spread like wildfire, and the evening papers came out with some of the most sensational headlines it had ever been their good fortune to print. The man who had been so mysteriously murdered in the cab was none other than Mr. Philip Le Cheminant, the nephew and heir-presumptive of the Earl of Tremarn." ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ Only because that claimant has a tremendous hold over the Earl, which makes the old man as wax in his hands, and it is only logical to conclude that that hold was none other than that Lord Tremarn had met his real nephew in Paris, and had killed him, sooner than to see him supplant his beloved heir, Harold. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ Vincent many weeks, before he learned that his father was none other than a younger brother of the present Earl of Tremarn, and that he himself—seeing that the present peer was over fifty and still unmarried—was heir-presumptive to the title and estates.
"You know the rest. Within two or three months of the memorable St. Pierre catastrophe Philip Le Cheminant had written to his uncle, Lord Tremarn, demanding his rights. Then he took passage on board a French liner and crossed over to Havre en route for Paris and London. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ Vincent.
"Surely common-sense would assert that, having gone so far, he would assure himself first whether the man was an impostor or not, before he resorted to crime in order to rid himself of him. Moreover, the witnesses who saw him leave his own club at twenty minutes past eleven were quite independent and very emphatic.
"Another theory is that the Collins' gang tried to blackmail Philip Le Cheminant—or William Collins, whichever we like to call him—and that it was one of them who murdered him out of spite when he refused to submit to the blackmailing process. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ This claimant was dead, but all his papers were in perfect order, the certificate of marriage between Lucie Legrand and Arthur Le Cheminant at Martinique, as well as the birth and baptismal certificate of Philip Le Cheminant, their son. Yet there were all those simple, honest folk swearing that the deceased had been born in Clapham, and the mother, surely, could not have been mistaken. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ He stated that deceased was a member of the Club, and had dined there on the evening preceding his death.
"'Mr. Le Cheminant was just coming downstairs after his dinner,' explained Thomas Sawyer to the detectives, 'when a stranger comes into the hall of the club; Mr. Le Cheminant saw him as soon as I did, and appeared very astonished. "What do you want?" he says rather sharply. "A word with you," replies the stranger. Mr. Le Cheminant seemed to hesitate for a moment. He lights a cigar, whilst the stranger stands there glaring at him, with a look in his eye I certainly didn't like. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ Mind you, a year had passed by since the original crime. William Collins, no doubt, never thought he had anything to fear from the old man. He got into the cab with him, and thus this remarkable story has closed, and Harold Le Cheminant is once more heir to the Earldom of Tremarn. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ She had never known anything about her husband's social position in his own country, and he had left her what, in Martinique amongst the coloured population, was considered a very fair competence for herself and child. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ He admitted in court that he meant to conduct certain investigations there with regard to the identity of the supposed heir to the Tremarn peerage.
"And thus the curtain came down on the last act of that extraordinary drama, leaving two great mysteries unsolved: the real identity of the murdered man, and that of the man who killed him. Some people still persist in thinking it was Harold Le Cheminant. Well, we may easily dismiss that supposition. Harold had decided to investigate the matter for himself ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Emma Orczy, "The Tremarn Case" (1904)

“ VII.—THE TREMARN CASE.
By The Baroness Orczy.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
I
"Well, it certainly is most amazing!" I said that day, when I had finished reading about it all in the Daily Telegraph.
"Yet the most natural thing in the world," retorted the man in the corner, as soon as he had ordered his lunch. "Crime invariably begets crime. ”

Emma Orczy

Summary

Quotes from "The Tremarn Case" (Emma Orczy)

Common terms

Similar works

Get perspective with Kwize: daily news enlightened by great literature