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Eldrick, is the likeliest person to extract the truth from." "There's a great deal in that suggestion," said Eldrick. "Do you know what I think?" he went on, turning to Collingwood, "Mr. Byner tells me he means to stay here until he has come across some satisfactory news of Parrawhite or solved the mystery of his disappearance.
"And his murderer had pretty cleverly weighted his body with scrap iron, before dropping it into a pit full of water, where it might have remained for a long time undiscovered. However that's settled!" Eldrick got out the first question. "Pratt?" "Prydale's after him," answered Byner. "I expect we shall hear something in a few minutes if he's in town.
'Say nowt to nobody keep your tongue still and I'll tell ye tomorrow night what ye can do I shall see a man 'at's on that job 'tween now and then, I says. So theer it is," concluded Pickard, looking hard at Byner. "D'yer think this chap's evidence 'ud be i' your line?" "Decidedly I do!" replied Byner. "Where is he to be found?" "I couldn't say wheer he lives," answered the landlord.
But Pratt, after all, was only one man, one brain, one body, and could not be in two places, nor go in two ways, at the same time. He took his own way ignorant of his destruction. Byner also took a way of his own. As soon as he and Prydale left Murgatroyd's shop, they chartered the first cab they met with, and ordered its driver to go to Whitcliffe Moor.
"I see that you ought to do well in your special line of business. Now are you going to pursue inquiries for Parrawhite here in Barford, after what I've told you?" "Certainly!" said Byner. "I came down prepared to stop awhile. It's highly important that this man should be found highly important," he added smiling, "to other people than Parrawhite himself." "In what way?" asked Eldrick.
"Well if things do turn out as you expect, we'll lose no time in seeking him there!" observed Prydale dryly. "We'd better arrange to get the job done first thing." "This Mr. Shepherd'll make no objection, I suppose?" asked Byner. "Objection! Lor' bless you he'll love it!" exclaimed Prydale. "It'll be a bit of welcome diversion to a man like him that's naught to do. He'll object none, not he!"
So he ate his supper with the better appetite which Pratt had prophesied, and he slept more satisfactorily than usual, and next morning he went to the nearest telegraph office and sent off the stipulated telegram to Halstead & Byner in London, and hoped that there was the end of the matter as far as he was concerned. And then, shortly after noon, in walked Mr.
"This morning, a man named Murgatroyd, in Peel Row, who does a bit of shipping agency, wired to Halstead & Byner to say that he booked Parrawhite to New York last November. Of course, they at once communicated with me, and I've just been to see Murgatroyd. He's that man watchmaker we had some proceedings against last year." "Oh, that man!" said Pratt. "Thought the name was familiar.
Then, towards the end of the afternoon, he bought one of the Barford evening papers and saw, in staring letters, the advertisement which Byner had caused to be inserted only a few hours previously. And at that, Pratt became afraid. Parrawhite wanted! news of Parrawhite wanted! and in two separate quarters. Wanted by Eldrick wanted by some London people! What in the name of the devil did it mean?
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."
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