Dead Men's Money by J.S. Fletcher

Several of the notabilities of the neighbourhood had ridden or driven to the inn, attracted, of course, by curiosity, and the man with the maimed hand immediately joined them as they stood talking apart from the rest of us. Now, I knew all such people of our parts well enough by sight, but I did not know this man, who certainly belonged to their class, and I turned to Mr. Lindsey, asking him who was this gentleman that had just ridden up. He glanced at me with evident surprise at my question.

"What? " said he. "You don't know him? That's the man there's been so much talk about lately -- Sir Gilbert Carstairs of Hathercleugh House, the new successor to the old baronetcy."