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"What do you think happened to Parrawhite, Mr. Pickard?" asked Byner. "Gow, I know what I think!" replied Pickard disgustedly. "I think 'at if he did get any brass out o' Pratt which is what I know nowt about, and hewn't much belief in he went straight away fro' t' town vanished! I do know this he nivver went back to his lodgin's that neet, 'cause I went theer mysen next day to inquire."
I give you my word it's all right all a mere bit of diplomacy and that nobody'll ever know you're in it that is, beyond a certain stage and that there's no danger to you." "What is it?" asked Murgatroyd, still uneasy and doubtful. Pratt pulled the evening paper out of his pocket and showed Murgatroyd the advertisement signed Halstead & Byner. "You see that?" he said.
Byner laid the message before Eldrick and Collingwood without further comment. On the evening of the day whereon Nesta Mallathorpe had paid him the visit which had resulted in so much plain speech on both sides, Pratt employed his leisure in a calm review of the situation. He was by no means dissatisfied, it seemed to him that everything was going very well for his purposes.
Byner moved his head in Collingwood's direction and Eldrick turned and looked anxiously at Collingwood, who, finding the eyes of both men on him, opened his hitherto tight-shut lips. "I think it quite likely!" he said. Byner laughed softly and looked at the solicitor. "Just listen to me a minute or two, Mr. Eldrick," he said.
"Ah! he was here in your shop at half-past eight on the evening of November 23rd last? Asking about a ticket to America?" "New York," muttered Murgatroyd. "And he came next morning and bought one?" asked the detective. "I told Mr. Eldrick that," said Murgatroyd, a little sullenly. "How much did it cost?" inquired Byner. "Eight pound ten," replied Murgatroyd. "Usual price."
Byner made no further remark. He and Pickard strolled back to the Green Man together. And declining the landlord's invitation to step inside and take another glass, but promising to see him again very soon, the inquiry agent walked on to the tram-car and rode down to Barford to keep his appointment with Eldrick and Collingwood at the barrister's chambers.
"I hev some bitter beer i' my cellar such as I'll lay owt ye couldn't get t' likes on down yonder i' Barford no, nor i' London neyther! I'll just draw a jug." Byner submitted to this evidence of friendliness, and Pickard, after disappearing into a dark archway and down some deeply worn stone steps, came back with a foaming jug, the sight of which seemed to give him great delight.
"This may be what you ask about," he said at last. "Here, under date November 23, are some letters and figures which obviously refer to bank-notes. You can copy them if you like." "Another question, Mr. Eldrick," remarked Byner as he made a note of the entries. "You say some cheque forms were abstracted from a book of yours at the same time.
It was this certainty which made Byner appear extraordinarily cool and collected, when next day, about noon, he walked into Eldrick's private room, where Collingwood was at that moment asking the solicitor what was being done. The certainty was now established, and it seemed to Byner that it would have been a queer thing if he had not always had it.
Instead of going into Murgatroyd's shop after he had watched Byner and Prydale away from it he should have followed those two astute and crafty persons, and have ascertained something of their movements. Had he done so, he would certainly not have troubled to return to Peel Row, nor to remain in Barford an hour longer than was absolutely necessary.
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