Crossword-Solution: OAKAPPLE 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Twenty years ago, in horror at the prospect of inheriting that hideous title, and with it the ban that compels all who succeed to the baronetcy to commit at least one deadly crime per day, for life, I fled my home, and concealed myself in this innocent village under the name of Robin Oakapple.

And then I was down at the club and met old Oakapple there, and he told me that Kilshaw had boasted of having done a deal with Puttock." "What did he mean?" "Why, that he and his gang--the rich capitalists, you know--were to back up old Puttock's temperance measures, provided Puttock (and Jewell, if Puttock could nobble him) prevented Medland from bringing in--what the deuce was it?--some Socialistic labour legislation or other--I forget what.

His absence somewhat diminished the _éclat_ of Sir John Oakapple's dance, but nevertheless it was agreed to be a very brilliant affair.

After a moment's pause, Eleanor answered, "Sir John Oakapple," and she excused this deviation from truth by the sage reflection that girls like Alicia must not be told everything.

The stream of gossip, which Dick's indiscreet behaviour at Sir John Oakapple's dance had set a-flowing, was not diminished in current by his subsequent conduct.