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You know what our juries are, Tertius evidence such as that which has been put before the coroner and the magistrate will be quite sufficient to damn him at the Old Bailey. Ample!" "What do you suggest, then?" asked Mr. Tertius. "Suggestion," answered the Professor, "is a difficult matter. But there are two things perhaps more, but certainly two on which I want light.
"If you've any sense of fitness, you'll know that until my uncle's will is found and his wishes ascertained I'm master here, Mr. Tertius, and " "You're not my master, Barthorpe," exclaimed Peggie, with a sudden flash of spirit. "I know what my uncle's wishes were as regards Mr. Tertius, and I intend to respect them.
Tertius took Peggie by the elbow and led her across the room to a recess in which stood an ancient oak bureau. "This old desk," he said, "belonged, so he always told me, to Jacob's great-grandfather. There is a secret drawer in it. Here it is concealed behind another drawer. You put this drawer out so and here is the secret one. And here where I saw Jacob Herapath put it is the will."
"Yes?" he said inquiringly and yet with a certain tone of command. "Now tell me all you know of this." He stood listening silently, with concentrated attention, as the inspector put him in possession of the facts already known. He made no comment, asked no questions, until the inspector had finished; then he turned to Selwood, almost pointedly ignoring Mr. Tertius.
She was too much excited by these thoughts to do anything but light stitching in a warm corner of the dining-room, with the outside of this momentous letter lying on the table before her. About twelve she heard her husband's step in the passage, and tripping to open the door, she said in her lightest tones, "Tertius, come in here here is a letter for you."
"But I examined his safe at the office, and I was going to examine that in his study at Portman Square when Tertius said in the presence of my cousin, myself, and Selwood, your successor, that there was a will, and produced one from a secret drawer in an old bureau " "A secret drawer in an old bureau!" murmured Burchill. "How deeply interesting for all of you! quite dramatic. Yes?"
The next day Lydgate had to go to Brassing, and told Rosamond that he should be away until the evening. Of late she had never gone beyond her own house and garden, except to church, and once to see her papa, to whom she said, "If Tertius goes away, you will help us to move, will you not, papa? I suppose we shall have very little money. I am sure I hope some one will help us." And Mr.
Give me yes give me one of your cigars." The Professor, plainly mystified, silently pointed to a cigar box which stood on a corner of his desk, and took another look into the bag. "A sandwich and a glass!" he murmured reflectively. "Um! Well?" he continued, going back to his chair and dropping heavily into it. "And what's it all about, Tertius? Some mystery, eh?" Mr.
Whoever wants to see that sandwich or that glass will find both a year hence ten years hence a century hence! in precisely the same condition in which we now see them. And that reminds me," he continued, as he turned away to his desk and picked up his pipe, "that reminds me, Tertius what are you going to do about these things being seen? They'll have to be seen, you know.
"Alleged you all heard him say alleged! That looks as if um! My dear Tertius, you have no doubt whatever about the proper and valid execution of this important document now in my safe. None?" "How can I have any doubt about what I actually saw?" replied Mr. Tertius. "I can't have any doubt, Halfpenny!
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