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"As you refuse, or seem to do so, I shall act for your cousin at once." Barthorpe opened the door wide, and as he crossed the threshold, turned and gave Mr. Halfpenny a swift glance. "Act!" he said. "Act! if you can!" Then he walked out and shut the door behind him, and Mr. Halfpenny turned to the others. "The will must be proved at once," he said decisively.
We shall not be much concerned with it the public will say that as usual we are doing nothing. You may think so, too. But you may count on this we shall be doing a great deal, and within a very short time from now we shall never let Mr. Barthorpe Herapath out of our sight until we want him." "Just so," assented Mr. Halfpenny. He took Mr.
And he spent all that day in that search, inspecting numerous documents and registers and books, and when evening came he had a very complete acquaintance with the family nomenclature of Barthorpe, and he was prepared to bet odds against any one of the name of Braden having lived there during the past half-century. In all his searching he had not once come across the name.
I should advise you to go on, and let us become acquainted with what you've got to tell us." "Barthorpe!" said Peggie, "I do not mind what pain you give me you can't give me much more than I've already been given this morning. But I wish" she turned appealingly to Mr. Halfpenny and again began to draw the sealed packet from her muff "I do wish, Mr. Halfpenny, you'd let me say something before "
And, in short," he continued, with added emphasis, "in short, my friends, Barthorpe must be visited, interviewed, questioned not merely by his legal advisers, but by some friend, and the very person to do it" here he turned and laid his great hand on Peggie's shoulder "is you, my dear!" "I!" exclaimed Peggie. "You, certainly! Nobody better.
But whether this man had any connection with that murder, whether to discover his whereabouts would be to reveal something of use in establishing Barthorpe Herapath's innocence, were questions which he must leave to Professor Cox-Raythwaite, to whom he was presently going with his news.
Barthorpe Herapath I have already given strict instructions that we are not to be disturbed, on any account. My dear perhaps you will sit here by me? Mr. Tertius, you sit next to Miss Wynne Professor " Mr. Halfpenny's dispositions of his guests placed Peggie and her two companions on one side of a round table; Barthorpe and Burchill at the other Mr. Halfpenny himself sat at the head.
"Of course, Halfpenny, you'll understand that as soon as this dreadful affair was discovered and the first arrangements had been made, Barthorpe, as only male relative, began to search for a will.
Then there was the bringing up of Barthorpe Herapath before the magistrate at Bow Street, and the proceedings at the adjourned coroner's inquest. It was not until the tenth day that anything like a breathing space came. But the position of affairs on that tenth day was a fairly clear one.
Halfpenny gathered a good deal from the firm and decisive tone in which this answer was made. Clearly there was something in the air of which he was wholly ignorant. "You no doubt believe that you have good reason for your course of action," he observed. "The best reasons," said Barthorpe. Mr. Halfpenny ruminated a little, silently.
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