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Antipas sought this experience for the sake of its mere publicity came from a prejudice which closer acquaintance with Dr. Linford happily dissolved from his mind. As reasonably might he have averred, as did another cynic, that the rector of St.
And for some months they and their mother had been safely installed at Normandale Grange, and in full possession of the dead man's wealth and business. All this flashed through Linford Pratt's mind in a few seconds he knew all the story: he had often thought of the extraordinary good fortune of those young people.
There were five documents in that envelope Esther examined each with meticulous care. The first was an authority to Linford Pratt to sell certain shares standing in the name of Ann Mallathorpe. The second was a similar document relating to other shares: each was complete, save for Ann Mallathorpe's signature.
"Quite so!" she said. "She is keeping something from me! And if she won't tell me things well, I must find them out for myself." She would say no more than that, and Collingwood left her. And as he went back to Barford he cursed Linford Pratt soundly for a deep and underhand rogue who was most certainly playing some fine game. But Pratt himself was quite satisfied up to that point.
Of the sermons delivered in New York that morning, he suspected that his would be found not the least ingenious. Telling excerpts would doubtless appear in the next day's papers, and at least one paper would reprint his favourite likeness over the caption, "Dr. Allan Delcher Linford, the Handsome and Up-to-Date Rector of St. Antipas."
"I was only going to suggest," resumed the wicked Unitarian, calmly, "that those people, Linford and his brother and even that singularly effective Mrs. Linford, with her inferable views about divorce you know I dare say that they really you know that they possess the courage of " "Their convictions!" concluded little Floud, impatient alike of the speaker's hesitation and the expected platitude.
He sat back to hear the steps of the maid, the opening of the door; then, after an interval, her steps ascending the stairs and stopping at his own door; then her knock. "A letter for Mr. Bernal, sir!" He glanced at the envelope she held, noting its tint. "He's not here Nora. Take it to Mrs. Linford. She will know where he is." He heard her go down the hall and knock at another door.
"Yes, yes if you can call it married a ceremony performed by one of those common magistrates quite without the sanction of the Church but all that is past, and he is now ready to marry one who can be a wife to him only my conscience did hurt me a little, and brother Cyrus said to me, 'You see Linford and tell him I sent you. Linford is a man of remarkable breadth, of rare flexibility."
About four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Linford Pratt, managing clerk to Messrs. Eldrick & Pascoe, Solicitors, of Barford, who was crossing the grounds of Normandale Grange on his way to a business appointment, discovered the dead body of Mr. H. J. Mallathorpe, the owner of the Normandale Estate, lying in a roadway which at that point is spanned, forty feet above, by a narrow foot-bridge.
"You say, 'Ah, Doctor! and shake hands, you know," said this hypercritical observer, "and, ten to one, he says something about St. Antipas directly, you know, or 'Tell him to call on Dr. Linford at the rectory adjoining St. Antipas I'm always there at eleven, or 'Yes, quite true, the bishop said to me, "My dear Linford, we depend on you in this matter," or telling how Mrs.
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