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I'll give you a note to him, and one to Superintendent Waterson." He went over to a writing-table and scribbled a few lines on half-sheets of notepaper which he enclosed in envelopes and handed to Byner. "I don't know what line you're taking," he said, "nor where it's going to end exactly. But I do know this Pratt never turned a hair when I let out all that to him."
And Murgatroyd put the money in his pocket, and presently went home, persuading himself that everything would be all right. Byner watched Eldrick and Collingwood inquisitively as they bent over Halstead's telegram. He was not surprised when Collingwood merely nodded in silence nor when Eldrick turned excitedly in his own direction. "There! what did I tell you?" he exclaimed.
And it unfortunately turns out that Pratt saw Prydale and me go to Murgatroyd's shop last night, and afterwards went in there himself, and of course pumped Murgatroyd dry as to why we'd been." "Why unfortunately?" asked Collingwood. "Because that would warn Pratt that something was afoot," said Byner. "And he may have disappeared during the night. He "
"But you've got to remember that Pratt didn't know of Parrawhite's affairs with Pickard, nor that he was at the Green Man at that hour," rejoined Byner. "My belief is that Pratt thinks himself safe that he fancies he's provided for all contingencies. If things turn out as I think they will, I believe we shall find Pratt calmly seated at his desk tomorrow morning."
In the circumstances as far as Byner could reckon them up from what he had gathered it would not have paid Parrawhite to do otherwise. Byner put the situation to himself in this fashion Pratt had got hold of some secret which was being, or could be made to be, highly profitable to him. Parrawhite had discovered this, and was in a position to blackmail Pratt.
He were not goin' to t' house. I know he worn't. He tell'd me 'at he'd a good idea what time Pratt 'ud be home, 'cause he knew where he was that evening and he were goin' to meet him just afore Pratt got to his place. I know where he'd meet him." "Where?" asked Byner. "Tell me exactly. It's important." "Pratt 'ud come up fro' t' town i' t' tram," answered Pickard.
"It's those people who really want him Halstead & Byner, inquiry agents, working for a firm of City solicitors. I'm only local agent as it were." "Had any response, Mr. Eldrick?" asked Pratt, throwing aside the paper. "Any one come forward?" "Yes," answered Eldrick, watching Pratt narrowly without seeming to do so.
"Didn't show anything when you mentioned Murgatroyd?" asked Byner. "Not a shred of a thing!" replied Eldrick. "Nor when you spoke of the twenty thousand pounds?" "No more than what you might call polite and interested surprise!" Byner laughed, threw away the end of a cigar, and rose out of his lounging posture. "Now, Mr.
"It's not oft that I come down in t' town, and we don't hear much Barford news up our way. Well, it's this here, Mr. Eldrick you know where my place is, of course?" Eldrick nodded, and turned to Byner. "I'd better explain to you," he said. "Whitcliffe is an outlying part of the town, well up the hills a sort of wayside hamlet with a lot of our famous stone quarries in its vicinity.
"It's the quickest thing to do if my theory's correct," observed Byner, as they drove along, "Of course, it is all theory mere theory! But I've grounds for it. The place the time mere lonely situation that scrap iron lying about, which would be so useful in weighting a dead body! I tell you, I shall be surprised if we don't find Parrawhite at the bottom of that water!"
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