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Updated: June 4, 2025
You see how she is described Avice Wickham Cave-Gray, daughter of, et cetera, et cetera. And here is his death certificate that too is all in order. You see, all these are duly attested copies we could, of course, insist on having them verified over there, but I've no doubt about their genuineness what do you say, Pawle?" "I should say there's no doubt whatever," answered Mr. Pawle readily.
"Probably!" answered Mr. Pawle. "For you never know how these little matters might help. We've established two facts, anyway. One that there have never been any folk of the name of Ashton in this town since the registers came into being in 1567; the other, that the name Avice was a very favourite one indeed amongst the women of the Cave-Gray family.
"After we came back from Marketstoke," replied Mr. Pawle, "I looked up the Cave-Gray family and their peerage. That locket bears their device and motto. The device is a closed fist, grasping a handful of blades of wheat; the motto is Have and Hold. Viner, as sure as fate, that girl's father was the missing Lord Marketstoke, and Ashton knew the secret! I'm convinced of it I'm positive of it.
"There is a daughter, and her name is Avice a name borne by a good many women of the Cave-Gray family," answered Mr. Pawle with a significant glance at his fellow-practitioner. "But let me go on: Wickham left his daughter, her mother being dead, in Ashton's guardianship. She was then about six years of age. Ashton sent her to school here in England.
Well, the Honourable Charles Cave-Gray, and his solicitors, of course, came to the conclusion that Lord Marketstoke was dead, and so I don't understand the legal niceties, gentlemen, but they went to the courts to get something done which presumed his death and let Mr. Charles come into the title and estates. And in the end that had been done, and Mr. Charles became the eighth Earl of Ellingham."
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