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The Bishop is inducting the new Rector of Wrigley this afternoon, and he sent a wire this morning he is always doing things at the last moment he never considers others to say that he would call at Barford on his way to see Michael. Michael is his godson, and he has always been fond of him. I left them together." Magdalen and Fay sipped their coffee in silence.
Murgatroyd's thin fingers trembled a little as he picked up his glass. "What do you want me to do exactly?" he asked. "This!" said Pratt. "I want you, tomorrow morning, early, to send a telegram to these people, Halstead & Byner, St. Martin's Chambers, London, just saying that James Parrawhite left Barford for America on November 24th last, and that you can give further information if necessary."
Wentworth and Michael were still at Venice. Michael, it seemed, had been prostrated by excitement, and had been too weak to travel immediately. But they would be at Barford in a few days' time.
But very few carriages have driven in or out during the last two years, except those of the owner of Barford Manor, Wentworth Maine. Wentworth, since he inherited the place from his uncle five years ago, had always led a somewhat secluded life.
Wentworth remembered some old, old prehistoric arrangement by which Michael was to have come back with him to Barford this afternoon. "No," he said, the room suddenly darkening till the sunshine on the floor was barely visible. "No. He is not coming back." The man hesitated a moment, and then left the room. Wentworth groped for the flagon of whiskey, poured out a quantity, and drank it raw.
He must make some plausible excuse: then he must settle down in Barford, according to Eldrick's suggestion. He would then be near at hand and if the trouble, whatever it might be, took tangible form, he would be able to help. But he was still utterly in the dark as to what that possible trouble might be yet, of one thing he felt convinced it would have some connection with Pratt.
Byner would travel to Barford by the first express next morning, and would call upon him at eleven o'clock. "Then they have some important news for Parrawhite," mused Eldrick, as he put the message in his pocket and went off to his club. "Inquiry agents don't set off on long journeys at a moment's notice for a matter of a trifling agency. But where is Parrawhite?" He awaited the arrival of Mr.
It was extremely unlikely that Pratt could fail to see those advertisements. There were three newspapers in Barford: one a morning journal of large circulation throughout the county; the other two, evening journals, which usually appeared in three or four editions.
And as to the whole of the remaining residue they shall pay it in one sum to the Mayor and Corporation of the borough of Barford in the County of York to be applied by the said Mayor and Corporation at their own absolute discretion and in any manner which seems good to them to the establishment, furtherance and development of technical and commercial education in the said borough of Barford.
If Pratt had only known what was going on in the old quarries at Whitcliffe, about the very time that he was riding slowly out to Barford on his bicycle, he would not only have accelerated his pace, but would have taken good care to have chosen another route: he would also have made haste to exchange bicycle for railway train as quickly as possible, and to have got himself far away before anybody could begin looking for him in his usual haunts, or at places wherein there was a possibility of his being found.
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