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"Wants to see you about that advertisement in the paper this morning, sir," continued the clerk. Eldrick looked at Byner and smiled significantly. Then he turned towards the door. "Bring Mr. Pickard in," he said.
Byner had at once seen that this call was welcome to this bluff and hearty Yorkshireman, who, without any question as to their business, had immediately welcomed them to his hearth and pressed liquor and cigars on them: he sized up Shepherd as a man to whom any sort of break in the placid course of retired life was a delightful event.
It's odd that you didn't see our advertisement before." "I don't look at that sort of advertisement," replied Eldrick. "I believe it was by mere accident that my partner saw yours yesterday afternoon. But now, a question or two first. What are you inquiry agents?" "Just so, sir inquiry agents with a touch of private detective business," answered Mr. Gerald Byner with a smile.
"I'll withdraw my opinion about the nature of the document which Pratt got hold of," he said. "What he's got is what you think John Mallathorpe's will!" "If I may venture an opinion," remarked Byner, "that's dead certain!" "And now," continued Eldrick, "we're faced with a nice situation! Don't either of you forget this fact. Not out of willingness on her part, but because she's got to do it, Mrs.
Eldrick was already waiting when Collingwood reached his chambers: Byner came there a few moments later. Within half an hour the barrister had told his story of Cobcroft, and the inquiry agent his of his visit to the Green Man and the quarries. And the solicitor listened quietly and attentively to both, and in the end turned to Collingwood.
Pratt's office is only a few minutes away. Can you drop in there, making some excuse, and while there, mention, more or less casually, that Parrawhite, or information about him, is wanted; that you and a certain Halstead & Byner are advertising for him; that you've just seen Murgatroyd in respect of a communication which he wired to Halstead's this morning, and that most important of all a fortune of twenty thousand pounds is awaiting Parrawhite!
"Whew!" he said. "Twenty thousand for Parrawhite! My good sir if that's so, and if, as you say, you've been advertising " "Advertising in several papers," interrupted Byner. "Dailies, weeklies, provincials. Never had one reply, till your wire." "Then Parrawhite must be dead!" said Eldrick. "Or in gaol, under another name. Twenty thousand pounds waiting for Parrawhite!
"But lor bless yer! it 'ud be quiet enough anywheer about this neighbourhood at that time o' neet. However, this is wheer Bill Thomson says he see'd 'em come." He led the way amongst the disused quarries, and Byner, following, climbed on a mound, now grown over with grass and weed, and looked about him. To his town eyes the place was something novel. He had never seen the like of it before.
Byner having heard what he has, would do that quite apart from us?" "Yes," said Byner. "Now that I've heard what Pickard had to say, I certainly shall follow that up." "I am following out something of my own," said Collingwood, turning to Eldrick. "I shall know more by this time tomorrow. Let us have a conference here at noon." They separated on that understanding, and Byner went his own ways.
"All right I'll put a man on to shadow him, from the time he leaves his lodgings until until we want him," said the detective. "That is if we do want him." "It will be one of the biggest surprises I ever had in my life if we don't!" asserted Byner. "I never felt more certain of anything than I do of finding Parrawhite's body in that pit!"
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